I had setup docker desktop with windows WSL integration version 2 and I run into issue when execute certain docker compose command with following errors

docker compose logs no configuration file provided: not found 

However, there were no problem found when executing the following

docker compose up 

and image built and fired up successfully.

Is there anyone can help on this?

docker info

Client: Context: default Debug Mode: false Plugins: buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc., v0.7.1) compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc., v2.2.1) scan: Docker Scan (Docker Inc., 0.9.0) Server: Containers: 3 Running: 3 Paused: 0 Stopped: 0 Images: 4 Server Version: 20.10.11 Storage Driver: overlay2 Backing Filesystem: extfs Supports d_type: true Native Overlay Diff: true userxattr: false Logging Driver: json-file Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs Cgroup Version: 1 Plugins: Volume: local Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog Swarm: inactive Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 io.containerd.runtime.v1.linux runc Default Runtime: runc Init Binary: docker-init containerd version: 7b11cfaabd73bb80907dd23182b9347b4245eb5d runc version: v1.0.2-0-g52b36a2 init version: de40ad0 Security Options: seccomp Profile: default Kernel Version: 5.10.60.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Operating System: Docker Desktop OSType: linux Architecture: x86_64 CPUs: 8 Total Memory: 24.95GiB Name: docker-desktop ID: FUMA:ZOXR:BA4L:YSOZ:4NQT:HHIZ:ASAD:EJGA:NJRG:SO4S:GXN3:JG5H Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker Debug Mode: false Registry: Labels: Experimental: false Insecure Registries: 127.0.0.0/8 Live Restore Enabled: false WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_bps_device support WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_bps_device support WARNING: No blkio throttle.read_iops_device support WARNING: No blkio throttle.write_iops_device support 

UPDATED

It was my mistake that I should execute the docker compose command under the correct directory where docker-compose.yml file located at.

The issue resolved

4 Answers

execute docker-compose command where docker-compose.yml file located at should resolved it.

or specify the docker-compose.yml file as bellow

docker-compose -f <docker-compose.yml> logs 

as suggested

I was facing the same issue on Windows PowerShell . I was using the docker-compose up command from within the newly created directory located in C:\WINDOWS\system32\ .

In my case, I rectified the problem by moving it to C:\Users\

For anyone who's getting

no configuration file provided: not found 

I was getting the same message on Mac trying to execute

docker-compose up 

The problem was with docker-compose.yml file. I saved it from Visual Studio Code as a text file though OS determined it like a proper YAML file. Look at the screenshot: left file is wrong but seems the same.

Make sure you select YAML format when you saving it.

I was also receiving this error and I had mis-spelt the file name(oops), so also double check spelling of files if anyone else finds their way to this post!