Support additional args for `command` defined in docker-compose.yml for rasa service

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Hi, Hope you’re doing well! I’m trying to deploy my bot on production. For that, I decided to migrate everything to docker. However, as I have a custom actions server using django, I need to use a docker compose as state in the documentation here. The problem is that, when I define the docker-compose file, in the command section , I need to call run together with some specific arguments from the cli. Here is what I mean:

version: '3.0'
services:
rasa:
 image: rasa/rasa:latest-full
 ports:
   - 5005:5005
 volumes:
   - ./:/app
 command:
  - run --model  models/20190919-122829.tar.gz --endpoints endpoints.yml --enable-api --debug

However this throw this invalid argument choice exception:

rasa: error: invalid choice: 'run --model  models/20190919-122829.tar.gz --endpoints endpoints.yml --enable-api --debug' (choose from 'init', 'run', 'shell', 'train', 'interactive', 'test', 'visualize', 'data', 'x')

Is someone already encountered this problem when using rasa docker image?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

2

Can you try rather

command: >
  run --model  models/20190919-122829.tar.gz --endpoints endpoints.yml --enable-api --debug
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3

thanks @erohmensing. It works with that.

4

i dont understand why this works. Could you elaborate a little?

5

Thanks so much for the solution, I’ve been trying to make this work a couple of days now. I am also curious to know as to why this works. Also, may I suggest a clarification in the docs?

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It’s more of an issue of understanding how providing commands in docker-compose works rather than anything specific. Using > makes everything in the next chunk be read as a string, whereas putting it with a - at the start makes it the first element of a list or arguments, passing the entire run --model .... as arg1. See here for more info: docker-compose cheatsheet – here it would be the equivalent of putting in run --model models/ ... as bundle.