Summary
docker-compose
is a command line tool for defining and running multi-container dockerized applications. docker-compose
uses a single file to define a multi-container environment. A docker-compose
file should be saved with extension yml
or yaml
. We can compose container environments using services, networks and volumes in a docker-compose
file. docker-compose
CLI tool should be available on the container host to run the commands. docker-compose
gives you options to build images, create volumes, port mappings, define dependencies among components and so on. docker-compose
CLI contains commands to manage environments, services or containers. The CLI cane used to setup number of containers for each service. Service Discovery and Registration come out of the box with docker-compose
. Docker Swarm is one of the many tools available to manage cluster of containers. The cluster management and orchestration features are built into the Docker Engine using the swarm kit. Docker Swarm uses identical...