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@@ -9,21 +9,29 @@ These are yaml files containing the repositories you may want to include into yo
 For a multi-stage build for instance, I define my base image repositories in "my.repos" and the extended image repositories in "my_extended.repos"
 
 ## To build the image for example_service (and push it to your container registry):
-'''
+```
 docker buildx bake example_service --load # to load into local container registry
 docker buildx bake example_service --push # to push into specified remote container registry
-'''
+```
 ## To run example_service:
 ### Run example_service in background
+```
 docker compose up -d example_service
-
+```
 ### Run example_service in foreground
+```
 docker compose up example_service
-
+```
 ### Execute shell inside example_service
 #### If container is stopped
+```
 docker compose run example_service bash
+```
 #### If container is already running
+```
 docker compose exec example_service bash
+```
 ### Execute example_program inside example_service
+```
 docker compose run example_service example_program
+```