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# [Run database migrations before your app starts in Docker Compose with service\_completed\_successfully](https://shipkit.hashnode.dev/run-database-migrations-before-your-app-starts-in-docker-compose-with-service-completed-successfully?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Your app expects its tables to exist by the time it takes its first request, so the migrations have to run first. In Docker Compose you can give that work its own short-lived service: it waits for the

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