Docker compose up -d -> no configuration file provided: not found

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I started this weekend to do my first baby steps in Home Assistant.
I prefer docker compose so I followed the RTFM to the letter which resulted in the error “no configuration file provided: not found”.

Because it was a fresh install of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on a old NUC I was thinking I did not install docker correctly but the pull worked and “hello world” too.

I found the solution in the line “Create a compose.yml file:”. For the newbies, dummies and other people (put me in either in of the three category or all) who do RTFM we might want to change this line into “Create a docker-compose.yml file:”.

Likely users can contributed to this documentation but as told I am still a novice.

This might be a recent change in docker; installed docker version: 23.0.0; my experience with docker is also pretty recent (openhabian, frontail, deconz, influxdb, grafana, LMS, pihole)

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If you scroll to the bottom of that page you can submit feedback or edits.

It’s not a new change though, you’ve always had to run the command in the folder with the file, or explicitly point it to the file.

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@Tinkerer your right, no need to change the documentation; was able to trace back my error to a stupid typo because I named this file docker.yml and not compose.yml.

Feel free to delete this topic to avoid further confusion.

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Btw: Upon my PR to “fix” the documentation I was redirected to the specs of docker compose where compose.yml actually is the default, while docker-compose.yml being a legacy fallback.

See Compose specification | Docker Documentation

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