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Steps
Create a new service and choose Docker Compose (standard compose) or Stack (Docker Swarm mode)
Paste or point to your docker-compose.yml; use the Environment tab to define variables — these are written to a .env file next to the compose file
Reference variables explicitly in the compose file via env_file: [.env] or ${VAR_NAME} substitution, since UI-defined vars are not auto-injected into containers
For persistence, use named Docker volumes (not ../files bind mounts) on anything you want covered by Dokploy's Volume Backups feature
Click Deploy; monitor per-service logs and the last 10 deployment records, and use the provided webhook URL to trigger redeploys from your Git provider
Known gotchas
A custom Advanced → Command fully replaces the default docker compose invocation rather than appending to it — copy the default and add your flag
Stack mode (Swarm) does not support the compose build key, so pre-built images are required
Volume Backups only work with named volumes; bind-mounted ../files data is not covered, and private-registry Swarm deploys need --with-registry-auth on the custom command
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