docker-autocompose is a tool that converts running Docker containers into YAML configuration files for reproduction and deployment. It functions as a container configuration exporter and YAML orchestration utility, harvesting runtime variables, volume mounts, and port mappings from active containers.
The project enables the generation of Docker Compose definitions by merging multiple container identifiers into single unified configuration files. This process allows for the recovery of undocumented container setups and the migration of manual deployments into version-controlled infrastructure as code.
The utility includes a runtime inspection engine that queries the host daemon to translate ephemeral container states and metadata into structured orchestration files.