Both docker run and docker compose can be used to run a Docker container. That is how these two Docker constructs are similar. But that’s where the similarities end.

After his introductory series, Tom Fenton deploys a database on Docker and integrates it with other apps deployed from other Docker images.

Docker (or specifically, the docker command) is used to manage individual containers, docker-compose is used to manage multi-container applications and Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool.

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. In other words, if you have a need to define a service that requires more than one Docker container to ...

Kubernetes vs Docker Compose Kubernetes and Docker Compose are both container orchestration frameworks. Kubernetes runs containers over a number of computers, virtual or real. Docker Compose runs ...

Tom demos table joins, shell scripts for repetitive tasks and using "exec" to run commands inside a container from the host system. In my previous article on running applications on Docker, I deployed ...