# Translate a Docker Compose File to Kubernetes Resources — OpenShift kompose convert example

> Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```sh kompose --provider openshift --file docker-voting.yml convert ``` Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```none WARN [worker] Service cannot be created because of missing port.

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## Provenance

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## Knowledge

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions).

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```sh
kompose --provider openshift --file docker-voting.yml convert
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
WARN [worker] Service cannot be created because of missing port.
INFO OpenShift file "vote-service.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "db-service.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "redis-service.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "result-service.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "vote-deploymentconfig.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "vote-imagestream.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "worker-deploymentconfig.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "worker-imagestream.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "db-deploymentconfig.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "db-imagestream.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "redis-deploymentconfig.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "redis-imagestream.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "result-deploymentconfig.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "result-imagestream.yaml" created
```

It also supports creating buildconfig for build directive in a service. By default, it uses the remote repo for the current git branch as the source repo, and the current branch as the source branch for the build. You can specify a different source repo and branch using --build-repo and --build-branch options respectively.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```sh
kompose --provider openshift --file buildconfig/docker-compose.yml convert
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```none
WARN [foo] Service cannot be created because of missing port.
INFO OpenShift Buildconfig using git@github.com:rtnpro/kompose.git::master as source.
INFO OpenShift file "foo-deploymentconfig.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "foo-imagestream.yaml" created
INFO OpenShift file "foo-buildconfig.yaml" created
```

If you are manually pushing the OpenShift artifacts using oc create -f, you need to ensure that you push the imagestream artifact before the buildconfig artifact, to workaround this OpenShift issue: .

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