Docker compose start container on boot

I have a docker container, that i need to start on server boot.

The docker-compose.yml file i used to create this docker container is

[root@cp03 serverok-rubycms]# cat docker-compose.yml 
version: '3'
services:
  web:
    image: serverok/rubycms:1.0
    command: bash -c "rm -f tmp/pids/server.pid && cd /myapp && source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh && script/server -e production"
    volumes:
      - /home/naiwnyc/cms:/myapp
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
[root@cp03 serverok-rubycms]# 

With above docker-compose.yml file. i have to start docker container manually after server reboot.

To make it auto start, add the line

    restart: always

Here is the modified docker-compose.yml file.

[root@cp03 serverok-rubycms]# cat docker-compose.yml 
version: '3'
services:
  web:
    image: serverok/rubycms:1.0
    restart: always
    command: bash -c "rm -f tmp/pids/server.pid && cd /myapp && source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh && script/server -e production"
    volumes:
      - /home/naiwnyc/cms:/myapp
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
[root@cp03 serverok-rubycms]#

You need to rebuild docker container based on this docker-compose.yml file

Change to the folder where your docker-compse.yml file is, in my case it was

cd  ~/serverok-rubycms

Run

docker-compose down
docker-compose up -d
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