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Compose Spec Updated with <models> for AI Workloads (github.com/docker)
16 points by pploug on July 2, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


Just saw this in the release notes, super excited to try it out.

Compose supporting an AI agent stack out of the box could be a big deal. I just saw a Reddit thread around using compose in production and I'm thinking I can put these two together. The idea of spinning up a whole multi-container setup for an LLM app (like a vector DB, orchestrator, backend, etc.) with a single compose up could work to actually get stuff to prod. I’ve been hacking around and struggling with this. Curious to see how far I can push this, might finally be the clean setup I can share.


Excited to see models get first-class support! Will be interesting to see what opportunities this opens with this being formalized (other tooling/integrations, etc.).

Note that Compose files using the previous model declarations (using providers) will still work.


The big question is still - how will the models reach production?


You can check out my blog post on publishing models to Docker Hub using Docker Model Runner :) https://www.docker.com/blog/publish-ai-models-on-docker-hub/


Well, more wondering how I go from having local models into a production app with the model available - I guess swap it with a cloud offering?


You can run the same model in production, using Docker Model Runner in Docker CE. This is assuming, the model works for your production use case :)


Following this.


That sounds interesting


super pumped to see models get this support through docker


This is brilliant.




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