9: Multi-container apps with Compose
In this chapter, we’ll look at how to deploy multi-container applications using Docker Compose. We usually shorten it to just Compose.
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 the microservices pattern.
A microservices app might have the following seven independent services that work together to form a useful application:
- Web front-end
- Ordering
- Catalog
- Back-end datastore
- Logging
- Authentication
- Authorization
Deploying and managing lots of small microservices like these can be hard. This is where Compose comes ...
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