Summary

In this chapter, we had an extensive look at the available Compose commands and their options. We used commands that helped us to provision our multi-container application, as well as commands that assist us to interact with the containers of our application. Thanks to the image functionalities Compose provides, we pulled, built, and deployed images to a Docker registry without issuing any non-Compose commands. By managing to run our applications and evaluate the existing command options, we also proceeded to monitor our application, either by monitoring the logs or listening to Docker events, and we even monitored the activity of our Compose processors using top.

The following chapters will move on to more specific concepts of Compose that can benefit our daily development. We will transition to a microservice-based application using Compose, and monitor it, modularize it, and build it using CI/CD.