hi @stephenb , thanks for looking into my thread 
i did follow directions exactly and even included steps that i took for completely cleaning up an environment before re-running it again and was able to replicate same undesirable behavior every single time and at this point not sure what to do other then ask my question here..
root@dos:/opt/elk# docker system prune --all
WARNING! This will remove:
- all stopped containers
- all networks not used by at least one container
- all images without at least one container associated to them
- all build cache
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Total reclaimed space: 0B
root@dos:/opt/elk# docker-compose up -d
[+] Running 27/27
✔ es01 Pulled 19.2s
✔ es03 10 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿] 0B/0B Pulled 19.2s
✔ f9175e7b73a4 Already exists 0.0s
✔ 7ceecf917bdd Already exists 0.6s
✔ 5722447c4365 Already exists 0.6s
✔ 89732bc75041 Pull complete 1.6s
✔ 77b7fd63f55a Pull complete 16.1s
✔ 6fd9ea970a54 Pull complete 16.1s
✔ 9c46f3874f5e Pull complete 16.1s
✔ ae01b9c7dd90 Pull complete 16.2s
✔ 7d8705bc5737 Pull complete 16.2s
✔ a3fa5ac7ea3d Pull complete 16.2s
✔ es02 Pulled 19.2s
✔ kibana 12 layers [⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿] 0B/0B Pulled 35.2s
✔ a297b0532e1f Pull complete 0.7s
✔ 2fc7c1dcd340 Pull complete 0.8s
✔ 45499b53179a Pull complete 0.8s
✔ 1244a55fe4a1 Pull complete 1.0s
✔ b029c938ed5e Pull complete 1.1s
✔ b1c3fe59723a Pull complete 31.4s
✔ 196aaf0e5615 Pull complete 31.5s
✔ d5a0d11fa9ac Pull complete 31.5s
✔ ef8c18a35f06 Pull complete 31.5s
✔ 79fddc393150 Pull complete 31.5s
✔ 79b85d016c68 Pull complete 31.6s
✔ 337c99c19bfb Pull complete 31.6s
✔ setup Pulled 19.2s
[+] Running 6/6
✔ Network elk_default Created 0.1s
✔ Container elk-setup-1 Healthy 7.0s
✔ Container elk-es01-1 Healthy 64.9s
✔ Container elk-es02-1 Healthy 55.3s
✔ Container elk-es03-1 Healthy 46.3s
✔ Container elk-kibana-1 Started 65.6s
root@dos:/opt/elk# docker-compose ps
NAME IMAGE COMMAND SERVICE CREATED STATUS PORTS
root@dos:/opt/elk# docker ps -a | grep docker.elastic.co
5e8b7f3b850a docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:8.9.1 "/bin/tini -- /usr/l…" 9 minutes ago Exited (1) About a minute ago elk-kibana-1
4db677726300 docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.9.1 "/bin/tini -- /usr/l…" 9 minutes ago Exited (137) 57 seconds ago elk-es03-1
19657df10c7b docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.9.1 "/bin/tini -- /usr/l…" 9 minutes ago Exited (137) 7 minutes ago elk-es02-1
7e022a4dab84 docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.9.1 "/bin/tini -- /usr/l…" 9 minutes ago Exited (137) 7 minutes ago elk-es01-1
5a5c07cc1e3f docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:8.9.1 "/bin/tini -- /usr/l…" 9 minutes ago Exited (0) 8 minutes ago elk-setup-1
root@dos:/opt/elk#