Divide docker services into various environments/stages using the docker profile

You may have different services you want to run through in various environments like testing, deployment, etc. Sometimes it isn't worth having multiple files for a few services or specifying services using their names in docker compose command. hence here comes the docker profile, you can run your services separately only by using the --profile option in the docker compose command. One file; one command format; multi-environment services.

here is the way to use docker profile:

compose service definition:

services:
    example-service:
        <snip>
        profiles:
            - <profile name 1>
            - <profile name 2>

specify which profile services should be run in compose command line:

docker compose --profile <profile name> up
# or define profile as env
COMPOSE_PROFILE=<profile name> docker compose up

easy and simple, hope you enjoy it :)