Docker compose in production

See also

• https://docs.docker.com/compose/production/

• https://docs.docker.com/compose/production/#modify-your-compose-file-for-production

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• Docker compose in production

  • Articles

    • Simple continuous deployment with docker compose, docker machine and Gitlab CI (2017-06-26)

Articles

Simple continuous deployment with docker compose, docker machine and Gitlab CI (2017-06-26)

See also

• https://medium.com/@Empanado/simple-continuous-deployment-with-docker-compose-docker-machine-and-gitlab-ci-9047765322e1

For local development of microservice-based systems running on docker, we’ve found that docker compose is probably the best way to go for local development, with the docker compose yaml file format being very usable for configuration as well. And for some projects, there really is no need to scale up to having multiple containers of a service, as you’ll be just fine with running all your containers on a single host. For these projects you want to get to production as smooth (or simple) as possible.

So after spending time learning about Mesos, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and other proprietary technologies and learning a ton of new concepts, I concluded that they’re all awesome, but not really suitable for a simple move from local development with docker compose. They all have their own configuration formats (largely for good reasons) and all of them do orchestration quite a bit different than docker compose, to facilitate more complex deployment environments.