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Docker Compose best practices

Source-linked guidance on Docker Compose fundamentals: the application model, the compose file, networking, profiles, and building images. Scoped to current Compose.

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Building images with Compose

Build is an optional part of the Compose Specification; it defines how to (re)build an application from source portably. build can be a single string defining a context path or a…

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Networking between services

Compose handles networking by default, creating a single bridge network named <project-name>_default where all services join. Containers discover each other by service name via…

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Profiles for selective startup

Use the profiles attribute to associate services with named profiles, allowing debugging or development tools to remain in a single compose.yml file but start only when…

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The Compose application model

Use a YAML Compose file (compose.yaml) to configure your application's services, then create and start them with the Compose CLI; the file follows the Compose Specification for…

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The Compose file structure

Adopt the Compose Specification, the latest and recommended version of the Compose file format, to define a Compose file that configures your application's services, networks,…

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