With Spring Boot 3.1.0 using Maven parent spring-boot-starter-parent:3.1.0 On OpenSuse Linux Leap 15.5. Maven 3.8 with Java JDK Temurin-17.0.7+7. Latest versions of everything at the moment of writing this.

with compose.yaml file at project root (with works ok) runnin with Docker version

Plugins: compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc., v2.0.0-rc.3)

Server: Server Version: 20.10.23-ce

BUG #1

mvn spring-boot:run

it fails with error :

2023-06-16 00:09:46,326 INFO o.s.b.l.LogLevel [OutputReader-stderr] unknown flag: --wait 2023-06-16 00:09:46,334 ERROR o.s.b.SpringApplication [main] Application run failed org.springframework.boot.docker.compose.core.ProcessExitException: 'docker compose --file ./compose.yaml --ansi never up --no-color --detach --wait' failed with exit code 16.

docker compose up does not have flag "--wait"

BUG #2

org.springframework.boot.docker.compose.lifecycle.DockerComposeProperties: 283 

        /**
         * Readiness wait strategies.
         */
        public enum Wait {

            /**
             * Always perform readiness checks.
             */
            ALWAYS,

            /**
             * Always perform readiness checks.
             */
            NEVER,

ALWAYS and NEVER have same (cut&paste) javadoc

BUG #3

using property : spring.docker.compose.start.command=start mvn spring-boot:run fails with:

2023-06-16 00:13:06,947 INFO o.s.b.l.LogLevel [OutputReader-stderr] unknown flag: --no-color 2023-06-16 00:13:06,956 ERROR o.s.b.SpringApplication [main] Application run failed org.springframework.boot.docker.compose.core.ProcessExitException: 'docker compose --file ./compose.yaml --ansi never start --no-color --detach --wait' failed with exit code 16.

docker compose start does not have flag "--no-color"

Comment From: scottfrederick

Plugins: compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc., v2.0.0-rc.3)

docker compose up does not have flag "--wait"

docker compose start does not have flag "--no-color"

This appears to be a pre-release version of Docker Compose that does not support the command-line flags that Spring Boot requires. The most recent version of the plugin available at the time of this writing is v2.18.1. Please upgrade to a newer version of the Docker Compose plugin.

ALWAYS and NEVER have same (cut&paste) javadoc

This has been fixed in https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/commit/0ca3ab7249437fcacdc7dbd3021896bc4c79c81b.