Deploying Docker Compose Using Remote Hosts
In the previous chapter, we created CI/CD tasks by using Docker Compose. We also created various environments that we can use and utilize regarding the scenario presented.
In this chapter, we will focus on deploying our Docker applications to a remote host. While developing an application, there are various reasons why you may not want to deploy your application to another host: the application can be resource-intensive, you may want to share the progress with a colleague or the host, the application is getting deployed to, may have access to resources through the network that your workstation doesn’t. A remote host could be a solution to those issues since it allows us to deploy a Docker application to another workstation and thus make it available externally.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Docker remote hosts
- Creating a remote Docker host
- Docker Contexts
- Deploying Compose to remote...
