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Getting Started with Docker
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Getting Started with Docker

by Nigel Poulton
July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
1h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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6: Multi-container apps with Compose

If you’ve been following along, you’ve containerized an app, pushed it to a registry, and run it as a container. However, most real-world apps are a lot more complicated and consist of many different containers working together. We call these multi-container apps or microservices apps.

In this chapter, you’ll use Docker Compose to deploy and manage a simple multi-container app. The goal is for you to understand the fundamentals of multi-container apps and gain some hands-on experience with Compose.

I’ve divided the chapter into the following sections:

  • Overview of the app
  • The Compose file
  • Deploy the app
  • Manage the app

Overview of the app

The application we’re about to deploy has two containers (microservices): ...

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