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Getting Started with Compose

Getting Started with Compose

Get introduced to a different, higher-level tool that lets us coordinate and manage containers for the different services that make up our application.

Docker Compose

Docker Compose, or just Compose for short, is a tool for managing an application that needs several different containers to work together. Compose is declarative; you describe each part of your application known as a service and Compose handles the grunt work of ensuring the right containers are run when and how you need.

It also manages to create and destroy the resources needed for the app. For example, it creates a separate, private network for your application, giving you a predictable, isolated ...