Controlling Individual Services

Sometimes you only want to bounce one container — restart the shop after a config change, or stop the database to free memory — without disturbing everything else. mdocker service does exactly that.

mdocker service

mdocker service up aurora db           # start only the db service
mdocker service down aurora db         # stop only db (the rest keeps running)
mdocker service restart aurora shop    # restart only the shop service

The service name is the key from your project’s compose file (db, shop, proxy, redis, …). To see which services a project has, use mdocker inspect.

Note

service operates on the same COMPOSE_FILE chain as up/down, so the override is still in effect — a service you start this way still joins the edge network and keeps its Traefik labels.

Related

• Starting, Stopping & Restarting
• CLI: service