Shipping software is an integral part of the Docker platform. The public registries on Docker Hub, Docker Cloud, and Docker Store make it easy to design a distributed solution using tried-and-tested components. In the previous chapter, I showed how to integrate these components into your own solution, taking a container-first design approach. The end result is a distributed solution with several moving parts. In this chapter, you'll learn how to organize all those moving parts into one unit using Docker Compose.
Docker Compose is another open source product from Docker, Inc., which extends the Docker ecosystem. The Docker Command Line Interface (CLI) and Docker API work on individual resources, such as images and containers. Docker Compose works on a higher level of services applications. An application is a single unit...
