Docker is an open-source platform that packages applications into containers. Think of containers as lightweight, portable boxes. Each box holds everything your app needs to run: code, libraries, and ...

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 function, ...

In my last article, I took an initial look at nginx, the high-performance open-source HTTP that uses a single process and a single thread to service a large number of requests. nginx was designed for ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between the Dockerfile and docker-compose is that the Dockerfile describes ...