# Invalid compose name: must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-', and must start and end with an alphanumeric character **URL:** \ **Category:** Not sure?\ **Created:** [December 6, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402 "2022-12-06T16:29:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mvpdsolutions](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/mvpdsolutions/32/241_2.png) [@mvpdsolutions](https://community.okteto.com/u/mvpdsolutions)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/1 "2022-12-06T16:29:44Z")
Today i wanted to deploy a new feature for my branch. But now i get this error `Found okteto compose manifest on docker-compose.yml` `Unmarshalling compose...` `x Invalid compose name: must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-', and must start and end with an alphanumeric character`` , last weeks this didn’t happen, does anyone know what is going wrong? My docker-compose.yml ```auto # For more information: https://laravel.com/docs/sail version: '3.9' services: laravel: build: context: ./ dockerfile: Dockerfile args: APP_KEY: '${APP_KEY}' GEO_API_KEY: '${GEO_API_KEY}' DB_HOST: '${DB_HOST}' DB_PORT: '${DB_PORT}' DB_DATABASE: '${DB_DATABASE}' DB_USERNAME: '${DB_USERNAME}' DB_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}' MAIL_HOST: '${MAIL_HOST}' MAIL_PORT: '${MAIL_PORT}' MAIL_USERNAME: '${MAIL_USERNAME}' MAIL_PASSWORD: '${MAIL_PASSWORD}' extra_hosts: - 'host.docker.internal:host-gateway' ports: - '80:8080' env_file: - .env.dist environment: LARAVEL_SAIL: 1 XDEBUG_MODE: '${SAIL_XDEBUG_MODE:-off}' APP_ENV: '${APP_ENV:-local}' XDEBUG_CONFIG: '${SAIL_XDEBUG_CONFIG:-client_host=host.docker.internal}' DB_HOST: '${DB_HOST}' DB_PORT: '${DB_PORT}' DB_DATABASE: '${DB_DATABASE}' DB_USERNAME: '${DB_USERNAME}' DB_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}' REDIS_HOST: 'redis' volumes: - '.:/app' - 'portal-assets:/app/storage' depends_on: mysql: condition: service_healthy redis: condition: service_healthy networks: - sail mysql: image: 'mysql/mysql-server:8.0' ports: - '3306:3306' environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}' MYSQL_ROOT_HOST: '${DB_HOST}' MYSQL_DATABASE: '${DB_DATABASE}' MYSQL_USER: '${DB_USERNAME}' MYSQL_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}' MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 1 volumes: - 'sail-mysql:/var/lib/mysql' healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin", "ping", "-p${DB_PASSWORD}"] retries: 3 timeout: 5s networks: - sail redis: image: 'redis:alpine' ports: - '6379:6379' volumes: - 'sail-redis:/data' healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"] retries: 3 timeout: 5s networks: - sail networks: sail: driver: bridge volumes: sail-mysql: driver: local sail-redis: driver: local portal-assets: driver: local ``` ---
**Author:** ![nacho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/nacho/32/20_2.png) [@nacho](https://community.okteto.com/u/nacho)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/2 "2022-12-06T18:22:48Z")
Hi @mvpdsolutions ! How are you deploying the compose? via UI or CLI? In case of doing it with the CLI, which command are you using? which CLI version? In case of doing it via UI, Are you using [cloud.okteto.com](http://cloud.okteto.com) or a self-hosted instance? ---
**Author:** ![mvpdsolutions](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/mvpdsolutions/32/241_2.png) [@mvpdsolutions](https://community.okteto.com/u/mvpdsolutions)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/3 "2022-12-06T22:28:06Z")
Hey @nacho, I am using the UI on [cloud.okteto.com](http://cloud.okteto.com). ---
**Author:** ![nacho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/nacho/32/20_2.png) [@nacho](https://community.okteto.com/u/nacho)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/4 "2022-12-07T13:16:27Z")
Hi @mvpdsolutions ! We are not able to reproduce the issue. Is the compose used as part of an Okteto manifest as mentioned [here](https://www.okteto.com/docs/reference/manifest/#deploy-a-docker-compose-file)? How is it called the repository your are deploying? The error means that the application name is not k8s compliance. Did you change something related to that? If no name is specified, by default it takes the repository name ---
**Author:** ![mvpdsolutions](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/mvpdsolutions/32/241_2.png) [@mvpdsolutions](https://community.okteto.com/u/mvpdsolutions)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/5 "2022-12-07T21:57:41Z")
Hi Nacho, At the moment i don’t use a manifest. This is how I deploy (see picture), I have not changed anything about my deploy. It just suddenly stopped working. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/okteto/original/1X/a1bed64c23423c80f7c95a58063399418cda5c1d.png) Are you sure that there is no solution for this? Because i’m stuck. Five days ago the same issue was posted on stackoverflow. [dockerfile - Invalid compose name even docker-compose.yaml exists - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74648741/invalid-compose-name-even-docker-compose-yaml-exists) This is my Dockerfile: ```auto FROM php:8.1 RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openssl zip unzip git nodejs ADD https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer/releases/latest/download/install-php-extensions /usr/local/bin/ RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/install-php-extensions && sync && \ install-php-extensions @composer curl gd mbstring openssl fileinfo mysqli pdo_mysql zip ADD ./uploads.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/uploads.ini COPY . /app WORKDIR /app RUN composer install RUN npm i -g yarn RUN yarn install RUN yarn prod RUN rm -rf node_modules/ RUN cp -f .env.dist .env ARG APP_KEY ARG GEO_API_KEY ARG DB_HOST ARG DB_PORT ARG DB_DATABASE ARG DB_USERNAME ARG DB_PASSWORD ARG MAIL_HOST ARG MAIL_PORT ARG MAIL_USERNAME ARG MAIL_PASSWORD RUN sed -i "s|APP_KEY=|APP_KEY=${APP_KEY}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|GEO_API_KEY=|GEO_API_KEY=${GEO_API_KEY}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|DB_HOST=|DB_HOST=${DB_HOST}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|DB_PORT=|DB_PORT=${DB_PORT}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|DB_DATABASE=|DB_DATABASE=${DB_DATABASE}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|DB_USERNAME=|DB_USERNAME=${DB_USERNAME}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|DB_PASSWORD=|DB_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|MAIL_HOST=|MAIL_HOST=${MAIL_HOST}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|MAIL_PORT=|MAIL_PORT=${MAIL_PORT}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|MAIL_USERNAME=|MAIL_USERNAME=${MAIL_USERNAME}|g" .env RUN sed -i "s|MAIL_PASSWORD=|MAIL_PASSWORD=${MAIL_PASSWORD}|g" .env RUN php artisan key:generate RUN apt-get -y autoremove \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* CMD php artisan config:cache \ & php artisan migrate --seed \ & php artisan orchid:admin admin admin@admin.com password \ & php artisan storage:link \ & php artisan queue:work \ & php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8080 EXPOSE 8080 ``` ---
**Author:** ![mvpdsolutions](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/mvpdsolutions/32/241_2.png) [@mvpdsolutions](https://community.okteto.com/u/mvpdsolutions)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/6 "2022-12-08T02:17:27Z")
Hey @nacho. I run my deployment without an okteto manifest. I tried running the same code on another namespace and there it does not fail, this definitely has something to do with okteto. It looks like when I destroy a environment and then try to rebuild it. The manifest fails. Milo ---
**Author:** ![nacho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/nacho/32/20_2.png) [@nacho](https://community.okteto.com/u/nacho)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/7 "2022-12-08T17:17:53Z")
HI @mvpdsolutions , we have identified the root cause and we are working on a fix but we don’t have an ETA for now. Probably it’ll be out early next week. In the meantime, can you try to deploy it using the CLI to see if that works? Can you try with `okteto pipeline deploy --name=backend-uitzendbureau --repository=https:// --branch=development --var=APP_KEY=`? It is important to specify parameter `--name` to avoid the error. Nacho ---
**Author:** ![mvpdsolutions](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/mvpdsolutions/32/241_2.png) [@mvpdsolutions](https://community.okteto.com/u/mvpdsolutions)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/8 "2022-12-09T15:35:52Z")
Hi @nacho, Thank you for looking into the issue. For now I have the workaround, so I will wait until next week. When the issue is fixed. ---
**Author:** ![Rohit-Ranjane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/rohit-ranjane/32/250_2.png) [@Rohit-Ranjane](https://community.okteto.com/u/Rohit-Ranjane)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/9 "2022-12-10T00:14:59Z")
Hi @nacho, even I’m facing a similar issue while deploying my code. I tried deploying it with the help of cli as well, the way you suggested using okteto pipeline deploy, but unfortunately I’m still facing the same issue. can you please suggest an estimate as to when will this be fixed? regards, Rohit ---
**Author:** ![nacho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/nacho/32/20_2.png) [@nacho](https://community.okteto.com/u/nacho)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 7:46am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/10 "2022-12-12T07:46:15Z")
Hi @Rohit-Ranjane , Our estimation is to have the fix in Cloud between today and tomorrow. I’ll keep you posted. Nacho ---
**Author:** ![nacho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.okteto.com/nacho/32/20_2.png) [@nacho](https://community.okteto.com/u/nacho)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 10:10am UTC](https://community.okteto.com/t/invalid-compose-name-must-consist-of-lower-case-alphanumeric-characters-or-and-must-start-and-end-with-an-alphanumeric-character/402/11 "2022-12-15T10:10:30Z")
Hi @Rohit-Ranjane and @mvpdsolutions , the fix took a bit longer we expected but we just applied it, so you should be able to deploy the repositories again from the UI.