microservices

Why Docker Compose⁉️ In the previous post, we saw how to run a Docker Container from a Docker image, either custom or pre-built image from the DockerHub. However, as we discussed, a big software is not built on just one Docker Container but many containers, working as microservices. When running multiple such containers, it is important that they are able to interact with each other, be able to exchange data, and thus act as independent blocks of a larger piece of software....

What is a Docker Container?📦 In the previous post, we saw how to find Docker images form the DockerHub, and also how to create our own Docker image that executes a function. In this post, we will go more over the execution part of Docker, mainly about how to run a Docker image as a container. Docker Containers are Docker images that become containers at run time. Docker containers are short pieces of software that runs an application quickly, as a lightweight standalone package....