How to don't start entrypoint command on "docker-compose up"?

I have multiple Docker containers in a project and I use docker-compose up -d to start containers.

This is my docker-compose.yml file:
version: "3"
services:
httpd:
image: 'nginx:stable-alpine'
ports:
- '80:80'
volumes:
- ./laravel:/var/www/html
- ./.docker-config/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
depends_on:
- php
- mysql
networks:
- backstage

php:
build:
context: ./.docker-config/dockerfiles
dockerfile: php.dockerfile
volumes:
- ./laravel:/var/www/html:delegated
networks:
- backstage

mysql:
image: mysql:5.7
env_file:
- ./.docker-config/mysql/mysql.env
ports:
- '33060:3306'
networks:
- backstage

composer:
build:
context: ./.docker-config/dockerfiles
dockerfile: composer.dockerfile
volumes:
- ./laravel:/var/www/html
networks:
- backstage

artisan:
build:
context: ./.docker-config/dockerfiles
dockerfile: php.dockerfile
volumes:
- ./laravel:/var/www/html
entrypoint: ["php", "/var/www/html/artisan"]
depends_on:
- mysql
networks:
- backstage

npm:
image: node:14-alpine
working_dir: /var/www/html
entrypoint: ["npm"]
volumes:
- ./laravel:/var/www/html
networks:
- backstage

phpunit:
build:
context: ./.docker-config/dockerfiles
dockerfile: php.dockerfile
volumes:
- ./laravel:/var/www/html
entrypoint: ["vendor/bin/phpunit"]
networks:
- backstage


As you see, I defined entrypoint for the phpunit container, but I don't want to start the phpunit when I run docker-compose up -d.

How can I do that?

You can scale service that you don't want to run to 0

docker-compose up --scale phpunit=0 -d And it will not start container for phpunit service as stated in docs

You can also check compose profiles for more options on excluding certain services in your docker-compose file.

StackExchange DevOps Q#16128, answer score: 2