Favoring Docker Compose didn’t make the CLI obsolete. In fact, I clarified the distinction between the two tools. Using CLI ...

Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. In other words, if you have a need to define a service that requires more than one Docker container to function, ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between the Dockerfile and docker-compose is that the Dockerfile describes ...

Simplifying the mystery: When to use docker, docker-compose, docker swarm and Kubernetes Your email has been sent Recently, I had a reader reach out to me wanting to understand the difference between ...