So, this is the official documentation on profiles: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/15-profiles/. Let’s see how we can run multiple profiles with overrides using docker-compose.

## docker-compose.yaml
services:
  foo:
    image: foo

  bar:
    image: bar
    profiles:
      - test

  baz:
    image: baz
    depends_on:
      - bar
    profiles:
      - test

  zot:
    image: zot
    depends_on:
      - bar
    profiles:
      - debug

What if you want to run multiple profiles in a single run? That can be done with the COMPOSE_PROFILES environment flag as follows:

COMPOSE_PROFILES=test,debug docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml up -d

Now what if you have a use-case to run overrides on a service? Exposing a port during local development for example:

## docker-compose.override.yaml
services:
  bar:
    ports:
      - "80:80"

This can be run with:

COMPOSE_PROFILES=test,debug docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.override.yaml up -d