Why do I get this error? ERROR: In file './docker-compose.yml', volume 'mariavolume' must be a mapping not a string.
My docker-compose file is almost identical to this one: https://docs.docker.com/compose/wordpress/
version: '2'
services:
wordpress:
image: wordpress:latest
restart: always
depends_on:
- db
ports:
- 8080:80
environment:
WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: example
WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: 3306
db:
image: mariadb
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
volumes:
- maria_volume: /var/lib/mysql
volumes:
maria_volume: ~/mariadb
Unfortunately, there is no such a feature.
You can’t map a top-level volume in docker-compose.
Here are the options:
In my case this was happening because I missed adding a :
after the volume name.
Instead of:
volumes:
- mysqldata:
I had typed:
volumes:
- mysqldata
docker-compose up
gave me the same error as above.
I was running into the same issue as yourself and as a last act of despair I tried putting
volumes:
- maria_volume: /var/lib/mysql
before
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
I'm not sure what kind of magic applied here but in my case, it worked
Let me know!
try this:
volumes:
- maria_volume: /var/lib/mysql
volumes:
maria_volume:
external:
name: ~/mariadb
For me this works:
In #docker_compose.yml:
volumes:
postgres_data: {}
static: { }
Try this:
version: '2'
services:
...
db:
image: mariadb
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example
volumes:
- ~/mariadb:/var/lib/mysql