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S. BhatPractical Docker with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7815-4_7

7. Understanding Docker Compose

Sathyajith Bhat1  
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

In the previous chapters, you learned about Docker and its associated terminologies, took a deeper look into how you can build Docker images using the Dockerfile, understood how to persist data generated by containers, and linked various running containers with the help of Docker’s network features.

In this chapter, you will look at Docker Compose, which is a tool for running multi-container applications, bringing up various linked, dependent containers, and more—and all with just one config file and ...

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