Multi-Container Applications
Real applications usually need multiple services — a web server, database, cache, etc. Docker Compose lets you define and run all these services with a single file.
What Docker Compose Does
Key Features
- Declarative configuration — Define your entire app in YAML
- Service orchestration — Start/stop all services together
- Automatic networking — Services find each other by name
- Volume management — Persistent data defined in config
- Environment management — .env files for secrets