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Docker Deep Dive
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Docker Deep Dive

by Nigel Poulton
October 2020
Beginner
250 pages
6h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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9: Deploying Apps with Docker Compose

In this chapter, we’ll look at how to deploy multi-container applications using Docker Compose.

Docker Compose and Docker Stacks are very similar. In this chapter we’ll focus on Docker Compose, which deploys and manages multi-container applications on Docker nodes running in single-engine mode. In a later chapter, we’ll focus on Docker Stacks. Stacks deploy and manage multi-container apps on Docker nodes running in swarm mode.

We’ll split this chapter into the usual three parts:

  • The TLDR
  • The deep dive
  • The commands

Deploying apps with Compose - The TLDR

Modern cloud-native apps are made of multiple smaller services that interact to form a useful app. We call this pattern “microservices”. A simple example ...

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ISBN: 9781800565135