If you do not want to start the whole stack, you can start only the required components. All services define their dependencies using the depends_on directive. Running a simple docker-compose up -d content-management-server workflow-server therefore will also start mysql, mongodb and solr.

You can get all available services by running docker-compose config --services

Alternatively, you can render the current setup to a config file and opt-out the services by deleting them from the rendered file.

docker-compose config > docker-compose.yml

You can then remove everything you don’t want. docker-compose.yml is ignored by Git with the default .gitignore file. You only have to make sure, that in your .env file

COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose.yml

is set, otherwise the file won’t be loaded.

Of course. there are a lot of toggles for your convenience:

There is also an option to define profiles to match a set of services. Visit the Docker documentation if you are interested in this feature.