5. Composing Environments with Docker Compose

Overview

This chapter covers the creation and management of multi-container applications using Docker Compose. You will learn how to create Docker Compose files to define complex containerized applications and how to run the Docker Compose CLI to manage the life cycle of multi-container applications. This chapter will enable you to configure Docker Compose applications with different methods and design applications with dependencies on other applications.

Introduction

In the previous chapters, we discussed how to use Docker containers and Dockerfiles to create containerized applications. As apps get more complicated, the management of the containers and their configurations becomes more involved. ...

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