docker-compose-simple-project

Learning: Simple project with basic use of docker-compose to control Docker containers.

This project formed part of an online course on how to use Docker.

Overview

This section introduced Docker Compose as a mechanism to create and manage a multi container application. In this instance we have a bespoke Node.js Express.js application, which stores data in a redis instance.

Running project using Docker Compose

To run Docker Compose run the following command:

docker-compose up

To quit, issue CTRL-C in the command line.

Running in background

More than likely you will want to run the containers in the background. To run the application in the background run:

docker-compose up -d

You will then need to stop the containers by issuing another command.

Stopping the containers

To stop the running containers that are running in the background, run:

docker-compose down