Learning Windows Server Containers

Dependencies

While setting up environments using multiple containers it might require to setup dependencies among the containers. For example, if a web container requires database connection string or cache connection string the database and cache containers should be built prior to the web container. docker-compose has the  depends_on property can be used to setup dependencies among the containers as shown in the following code:

    version: '3'    services:     db:      image: microsoft/mssql-server-windows-express      ports:       - "1433:1433"      volumes:       - c:\data     cache:      image: learningwsc/redis-server      ports:       - "6379:6379"     web:      build: .      image: webserver:latest      container_name: webcontainer      ports:       - "80:80"      depends_on:       - db       - cache      environment: - db_connection = ...