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Containers for Developers Handbook

You're reading from   Containers for Developers Handbook A practical guide to developing and delivering applications using software containers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805127987
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea Francisco Javier Ramírez Urea
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Key Concepts of Containers
2. Chapter 1: Modern Infrastructure and Applications with Docker FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Docker Images 4. Chapter 3: Sharing Docker Images 5. Chapter 4: Running Docker Containers 6. Chapter 5: Creating Multi-Container Applications 7. Part 2:Container Orchestration
8. Chapter 6: Fundamentals of Container Orchestration 9. Chapter 7: Orchestrating with Swarm 10. Chapter 8: Deploying Applications with the Kubernetes Orchestrator 11. Part 3:Application Deployment
12. Chapter 9: Implementing Architecture Patterns 13. Chapter 10: Leveraging Application Data Management in Kubernetes 14. Chapter 11: Publishing Applications 15. Chapter 12: Gaining Application Insights 16. Part 4:Improving Applications’ Development Workflow
17. Chapter 13: Managing the Application Life Cycle 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running and debugging multi-container applications

Applications executed using Docker Compose will be orchestrated but without high availability. This doesn’t mean you can’t use it in production, but you may need additional applications or infrastructure to keep your components always on.

Docker Compose provides an easy way of running applications using a single point of management. You may have more than one YAML file for defining your application’s components, but the docker-compose command will merge them into a single definition. We will simply use docker-compose up to launch our complete application, although we can manage each component separately by simply adding its service’s name. docker-compose will refresh the components’ status and will just recreate those that have stopped or are non-existent. By default, it will attach our terminal to all application containers, which may be very useful for debugging but it isn’t useful for...

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