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Docker Orchestration
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Docker Orchestration

by Randall Smith
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
6h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Writing a Docker Compose file

A Docker Compose file defines everything about an application. The services, volumes, networks, and dependencies can all be defined in one place. The configuration can be used locally to stand up a development environment, plugged into an existing continuous integration or continuous deployment system, or even used on a server to start production services. Later chapters will show better ways to manage running services.

Docker Compose looks for a file named docker-compose.yml in the current directory. An alternate file can be specified with the -f option. The file is formatted in YAML so it can be edited in any text editor.

Let's start with a very simple compose file that starts a single nginx container that listens ...

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