Summary

In this chapter, we covered the basic usage of Docker Compose and discussed how it will help you develop and run your multi-component applications locally. You will be able to run and review the status of all your application’s components using a single command line. We learned about the syntax of Compose YAML files and how to prepare template-like files for developing your applications using different customizations. You will probably run your applications in production using a clustered orchestrated environment such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes, but docker-compose does also provide a basic orchestration for running your multi-container applications in production using a single server. Understanding the basic orchestration and networking features of Docker Compose will help us introduce more sophisticated orchestration methods, which we will learn about in the next chapters.

In the next chapter, we will briefly review orchestration platforms that will help us run...