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Introduction to Docker Compose

As Docker has rapidly become part of our daily developments and deployments, Docker Compose is a tool that you will encounter frequently. You have probably read about it, used it, or you might even have stumbled upon it while browsing the official Docker documentation.

As day-to-day development becomes more complex, it’s common for an application to interact with more than one software component. Applications that grow in popularity will face the need to separate the workloads and facilitate scaling. The separation of logic, along with responsibilities to multiple software components, is imminent. Docker has been giving solutions for simplifying the containerization, management, and isolation of an application’s ...

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