Writing a Docker Compose File for the App

Docker Compose is supposed to make the process of configuring, creating, and running apps in Docker containers much easier. Let's try to write a Compose file for our coffee shop app to understand it better.

Installing Docker Compose

Compose needs to be explicitly installed before we can use it. Refer to this section in the appendix if you need help installing it.

Writing Docker Compose for our coffee shop app

To run our containers using Docker Compose, we will write a docker-compose.yml file for our coffee shop app. The first line is typically the version number. We can skip it since it's optional, but it's a good practice to add it so we can keep a track of the syntax used in the file and adjust it later if required.

Let's use version 3.0.