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Add support for `docker (compose) run/up` presets like `docker buildx bake`

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cmake, docker, docker-compose, go
Domain
cli, devtools

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing docker buildx bake preset behavior and the docker compose run and up commands, then compare the referenced CMake presets model. Define the preset file format, supported commands, and declarative options before implementation; done means a documented, working preset approach for launching containers.

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Description

Some containers and compose files could be launched in a bunch of ways. It would be very convenient if Docker (compose) could support similar "presets" for running/ups containers like docker buildx bake exists for build presets.

In general way, we could also create a docker-run file (name is preliminary) with run targets and declarative options similar to docker-bake.

Also these presets could be generalized like CMake (c++ build system) done for their build stages: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-presets.7.html

Possibly another docker commands could be "presettable" via this generalized approach

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