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Docker Compose allows users to define multi-container applications in a YAML file and start/stop them with a single command. It connects different containers that make up a single application/service so they can interact with each other. For example, a fashion e-commerce site like Myntra consists of containers for user accounts, products, carts, and other microservices that Docker Compose can orchestrate as a single cohesive service.

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Docker Compose allows users to define multi-container applications in a YAML file and start/stop them with a single command. It connects different containers that make up a single application/service so they can interact with each other. For example, a fashion e-commerce site like Myntra consists of containers for user accounts, products, carts, and other microservices that Docker Compose can orchestrate as a single cohesive service.

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Docker Compose is a tool that assists in defining and sharing multi-container

applications. By using Compose, we can define the services in a YAML file, as well as
spin them up and tear them down with one single command.

To understand Docker Compose, let’s look at Myntra as an example. Myntra is a fashion


e-commerce website similar to Amazon. You visit the Myntra website through your web
browser and go through several activities, like logging in to your account, browsing a
catalog, checking out, and so on. Behind each of these activities or services are
different products, such as an account database, product database, cart database, and
others that run behind the scenes.

Each of these can be considered a microservice. The more microservices you build into
your environment, the more valuable it is to have each of these services in their
containers. But as a developer, you should be able to jump from one container to
another. This is where you can relate this example to Docker, where Docker Compose
can connect different containers as a single service.
Docker Compose is used for running multiple containers as a single service. Each of the
containers here run in isolation but can interact with each other when required. Docker
Compose files are very easy to write in a scripting language called YAML, which is an
XML-based language that stands for Yet Another Markup Language. Another great thing
about Docker Compose is that users can activate all the services (containers) using a
single command.

For example:

If you have an application that requires an NGINX server and Redis database, you can
create a Docker Compose file that can run both the containers as a service without the
need to start each one separately.

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