Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Executing the docker-compose command

To run the catalog service locally, we must complete the compose process from the CLI using the docker-compose command. It is possible to get an overview of the commands by running docker-compose --help.

The main commands related to the composition of a multi-container application are as follows:

• docker-compose build: This builds the services. It executes the build using the Dockerfile associated with the images.
• docker-compose images: This lists the current container images.
• docker-compose up: This creates and runs the containers.
• docker-compose config: This validates and views the docker-compose.yml file.

We can proceed by running the catalog service using the following command:

docker-compose up --build ...