Docker Compose does not allow to use local images

Question

The following command fails, trying to pull image from the Docker Hub:

$ docker-compose up -d Pulling web-server (web-server:staging)... ERROR: repository web-server not found: does not exist or no pull access 

But I just want to use a local version of the image, which exists:

$ docker images REPOSITORY           TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE web-server           staging             b94573990687        7 hours ago         365MB 

Why Docker doesn't search among locally stored images?

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This is my Docker Compose file:

version: '3' services:   chat-server:     image: chat-server:staging     ports:       - "8110:8110"   web-server:     image: web-server:staging     ports:       - "80:80"       - "443:443"       - "8009:8009"       - "8443:8443" 

and my .env file:

DOCKER_HOST=tcp://***.***.**.**:2376 DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=true  DOCKER_CERT_PATH=/Users/Victor/Documents/Development/projects/.../target/docker 

Answer 1

In general, this should work as you describe it. Tried to reproduce it, but it simply worked...

Folder structure:

. ├── docker-compose.yml └── Dockerfile 

Content of Dockerfile:

FROM alpine CMD ["echo", "i am groot"] 

Build and tag image:

docker build -t groot . docker tag groot:latest groot:staging 

with docker-compose.yml:

version: '3.1' services:   groot:     image: groot:staging 

and start docker-compose:

$ docker-compose up Creating groot_groot ...  Creating groot_groot_1 ... done Attaching to groot_groot_1 groot_1  | i am groot groot_groot_1 exited with code 0