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A Developer's Essential Guide to Docker Compose

By : Emmanouil Gkatziouras
Book Image

A Developer's Essential Guide to Docker Compose

By: Emmanouil Gkatziouras

Overview of this book

Software development is becoming increasingly complex due to the various software components used. Applications need to be packaged with software components to facilitate their operations, making it complicated to run them. With Docker Compose, a single command can set up your application and the needed dependencies. This book starts with an overview of Docker Compose and its usage and then shows how to create an application. You will also get to grips with the fundamentals of Docker volumes and network, along with Compose commands, their purpose, and use cases. Next, you will set up databases for daily usage using Compose and, leveraging Docker networking, you will establish communication between microservices. You will also run entire stacks locally on Compose, simulate production environments, and enhance CI/CD jobs using Docker Compose. Later chapters will show you how to benefit from Docker Compose for production deployments, provision infrastructure on public clouds such as AWS and Azure, and wrap up with Compose deployments on said infrastructure. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively utilize Docker Compose for day-to-day development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Docker Compose 101
6
Part 2: Daily Development with Docker Compose
12
Part 3: Deployment with Docker Compose

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the created nginx.conf configuration file as another file in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

type Task struct {
Id          string `json:"id"`
Name        string `json:"name"`
Description string `json:"description"`
Timestamp   int64  `json:"timestamp"`
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

services:
  redis:
    image: redis
    ports:
      - 6379:6379

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ curl --location --request POST 'localhost:8080/task/'
$ cat /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

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