Docker Compose Quickstart: description is incomplete

[xypron]

Is this a docs issue?

• My issue is about the documentation content or website

Type of issue

Information is incorrect

Description

The example is incomplete. With the files given I get an error:

Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to initialize logging driver: max-size must be a positive number

Location

https://docs.docker.com/compose/gettingstarted/

Suggestion

Describe that max-size must be set in /etc/docker/daemon.json.

[xypron]

OS used: Ubuntu 26.04 with packages

• docker.io (29.1.2-0ubuntu1)
• docker-compose-v2 (2.37.1+ds1-0ubuntu2)
• docker-buildx (0.21.3-0ubuntu1)