Starting Services

The devbox up command starts services in your DevBox project. It updates the project, fetches recent sources, and builds services before starting them, similar to docker compose up -d.

Note

Like other DevBox commands, this command supports automatic project detection based on your current directory. If automatic detection fails, you can specify the project name explicitly.

Usage

devbox up [--name <project-name>] [--profile <profile-name>]

Option	Required	Description
--name <project-name>	no	Project name. If not specified, will be detected from Git source
--profile <profile-name>	no	Profile to use from your docker-compose.yml file

Example

# Start current project
devbox up

# Start with specific profiles
devbox up --profile profile1 --profile profile2

Output

[*] Updating project...
[*] Update hosts file...
[*] Setup CA...
[*] Generate certificates...
[*] Updating sources...
[+] Updating sources 4/4
 ✔ Source api-service      Synced                   2.1s
 ✔ Source web-frontend     Synced                   1.9s
 ✔ Source worker           Synced                   1.8s
 ✔ Source database         Synced                   1.7s

[*] Build services...
[+] Building 3/3
 ✔ Service api         Built                        1.4s
 ✔ Service frontend    Built                        2.5s
 ✔ Service worker      Built                        1.4s

[*] Up services...
[+] Running 3/3
 ✔ Network example-app_default         Created      0.0s
 ✔ Container example-app-api-1         Started      1.2s
 ✔ Container example-app-frontend-1    Started      1.2s
 ✔ Container example-app-worker-1      Started      1.2s