The docker-compose Tool

Let's begin the lesson by looking at what a multi-container setup is, why it is important, and how Docker, with the tool docker-compose, works like a charm in such scenarios.

We have recently been introduced to how applications work, with their separate elements: frontend, backend, and database.

To run such a multi-tier application using Docker, one would need to run the following commands to spin up the containers in different terminal sessions:

- docker run <front-end>
- docker run <back-end>
- docker run <database>

Note

You can run docker run with (-d) as detached to prevent us from running the three commands in separate sessions, for example: docker run <front-end> -d

That said, it even becomes particularly tasking linking ...

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