Managing Multiple Containers and Distributed Application Bundles

This is the docker-compose.yml for running a Django application. A similar application can be found in the docker-compose documentation under the Django example.

Download the Django example from: ttps://docs.docker.com/compose/django/:

Note

Refer the complete code placed at Code/Lesson-2/django-docker-compose.yml.

Go to https://goo.gl/H624J1 to access the code.

Improve a Docker Workflow

To give more context on how docker-compose is involved and how it improves a Docker workflow.

1. Create a new directory and name it django_docker.
2. In the django-docker directory, create a new docker-compose.yml and add the information in the figure above, or in the django-docker-compose.yml script provided.
3. Create a new Dockerfile and add the content in the Dockerfile script provided.
4. Create a requirements file; simply copy the django-requirements.txt file provided.
5. Run docker-compose up and observe the logs.

Notice that we are able to spin up both containers...