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Compose uses a project name to isolate environments from each other.
The default project name is based on the name of the directory where the docker-compose.yml is located (ie the basename of the project directory)
You can make use of this project name in several different contexts:
on a dev host, to create multiple copies of a single environment (e.g., you want to run a stable copy for each feature branch of a project)
on a CI server, to keep builds from interfering with each other, you can set the project name to a unique build number
on a shared host or dev host, to prevent different projects, which may use the same service names, from interfering with each other