Following my recent beginners guide to Docker post I thought it would be useful to go into a bit more detail on what docker compose files are and why I use them. Normally starting a container involves invoking the docker run command followed by all the commands required to start the container. This is fine…

Docker can be thought of in similar vein to virtualization however instead of virtualizing an entire computer it runs a container which consists of the necessary items required to run an application. Instead of having to setup an entire server, install the prerequisites, and install the server it instead launches a container with all of…