docker-compose.yml template which covers most of the configurations which are used from time to time

docker-compose.tmpl.yml

version: "3.7"

services:
  backend:
    image: registry.example.com/my-example-docker-image:stable
    restart: always
    hostname: my-example-service.example.com
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/Zurich
    env_file:
      - backend.env
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl --fail http://localhost:$${BACKEND_PORT} || exit 1"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3
    extra_hosts:
      - ${ALTERNATIVE_HOSTNAME}:127.0.0.1
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - type: volume
        source: long-volume-syntax-example
        target: /opt/data
    logging:
      driver: fluentd
      options:
        fluentd-async-connect: 'true'
        fluentd-buffer-limit: 10MB
        fluentd-max-retries: '30'
        fluentd-address: fluentd.example.com:24224
    networks:
      internal:
        ipv4_address: 172.16.1.10
      svc_transit:
    labels:
      traefik.port: 80
      traefik.frontend.rule: Host:my-example-service.example.com
      traefik.docker.network: svc_transit
      traefik.protocol: http

volumes:
  long-volume-syntax-example:
    driver_opts:
      type: "nfs4"
      o: "addr=192.168.1.10,nolock,soft,rw"
      device: ":/nfs/my-example-nfs-share"

networks:
  internal:
    internal: true
    driver: bridge
    ipam:
      driver: default
      config:
        - subnet: 172.16.1.0/24
  svc_transit:
    external: true