Microservice Patterns and Best Practices

Using the containers

We already have our containers declared; the time has come to use them. For this, it is necessary to have installed Docker, the docker-machine, and the docker-compose.

With Docker running as a service, we will use the docker-machine to create our host:

$ docker-machine create dev

With our host created, let's map the docker-machine URL host generated:

$ eval "$(docker-machine env dev)"

Now, let's use the docker-compose to create the containers and initialize them:

$ docker-compose up -d -build

After a few minutes, all containers will be ready for use. We need to know only when the Docker is running our application. For this, we will execute the following command:

$ docker-machine ip dev

With the IP passed, simply add the ...