Container Orchestration Made Easy:

Docker Compose:

Docker Compose is a tool that was developed to help define and share multi-container applications. With Compose, we can create a YAML file to define the services and with a single command, can spin everything up or tear it all down. Compose works in all environments: production, staging, development, testing, as well as CI workflows. It also has commands for managing the whole lifecycle of your application:

• Start, stop, and rebuild services

• View the status of running services

• Stream the log output of running services

• Run a one-off command on a service

Install Docker Compose:

We can run Docker Compose on macOs, Widows, and 64-bit Linux.

• For any significant activity, Docker Compose depends on Docker Engine. Depending on your arrangement, we must ensure that Docker Engine is installed either locally or remotely.

• A desktop system such as Docker for Mac and Windows comes with Docker Compose preinstalled.

• Install Docker first as instructed in Docker installation on the Linux system before beginning the installation of Docker Compose.

Steps to install Docker Compose:

Step 1: The following scripts will install the most recent version of Docker Compose and update the package management.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-compose-plugin

Here we are using the Ubuntu flavor in the Linux OS. So the package manager is “apt-get” If you want to install it in Redhat Linux then the package manager will be “yum”.

Step 2: Check the version to ensure that Docker Compose is installed successfully.

docker-compose version
Docker Compose version vN.N.N