https://github.com/Red5d/docker-autocompose

Generates a docker-compose yaml definition from a docker container.

For the future you should get started by using compose files from the beginning, and keep those as your "backup" of the container config. Exporting them from a deployed container is not the intended approach.

I dont know if it can now, but it definitely couldnt a few years ago, and i havent seen anything for it recently.

When i had the same issue, i tried this:

~~https://www.makeuseof.com/create-docker-compose-files-from-running-docker-containers/~~

Edit: link has a very aggressive anti adblock, but the script is python-autocompose which the other poster has linked.

It didnt work then, just generating a very basic outline, but maybe it has improved.

On the upside, this is a mistake youll only make once, I just use compose for everything now, saves a lot of hassle down the line.

Thank you u/joecool42069 and u/thekrautboy for help.