There are many Docker Compose files and maintaining them is hard. Thankfully, JHipster has a docker-compose sub-generator bundled with it. The docker-compose sub-generator helps you organize all your application's Docker Compose files together. It creates a single Docker Compose file that refers to all the applications and their database, along with the registry and monitoring.
Let's go to the base folder, create a folder, and name it docker-compose:
> mkdir docker-compose && cd docker-compose
Once inside the docker-compose folder, we can run the following command:
jhipster docker-compose
This will generate the Dockerfiles.
As usual, it will ask us a series of questions before generating the files:

First, it asks us which type of application we would like to deploy. We will select the microservice application...