Will WSLC implement Compose?

[tessharp]

I've done a cursory look at the WSLC folder and I have noticed that there are no commands for compose, and I don't know if regular Compose can be transplanted to this iteration of WSLC. As there are specific containers that would require the use of multi-containers, are you looking to implement Compose eventually?

[Cristian Hernandez (clystian)]

I think this is something we all hope for with WSLC behavior similar to docker and docker-compose.

the important thing for me is that it exposes an API so we can manage containers with that command, I’m sure later they will implement something similar to docker compose, or the community.

In the meantime, I think I’m not the first to try playing a bit with the code to see how easy it would be to add,
then I did a small test this week, could be some buggy but feel free to take a look PR#1 add compose command

[Hans Bakker (hansmbakker)]

See the tracking issue for this at #40948

[tessharp]

Glad to see that this is moving! :)

[Dawn Magnet (DawnMagnet)]

For anyone landing here: native support is being tracked in #40948 and feature/compose is in progress, but it currently accepts only a handful of keys.

If you need multi-container setups today, I put together a stopgap that reads a normal compose.yml and drives wslc directly: https://github.com/DawnMagnet/wslc-compose-go

wslc-compose up -d, ps, logs, exec, down all work (also usable as wslc compose … from PowerShell). It's meant as a bridge until the official version lands.