Closing an App

Learn to close an app managed by Compose and understand the output.

In this and the following lesson, you’ll see how to start, stop, delete, and get the status of applications being managed by Docker Compose. You’ll also see how the volume we’re using can be used to directly inject updates to the app’s web front-end.

Compose down

As the application is already up, let’s see how to bring it down. To do this, replace the up sub-command with down.

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