Favoring Docker Compose didn’t make the CLI obsolete. In fact, I clarified the distinction between the two tools. Using CLI ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The second major difference is that docker run can only start one container at a time, while ...

Simplifying the mystery: When to use docker, docker-compose, docker swarm and Kubernetes Your email has been sent Recently, I had a reader reach out to me wanting to understand the difference between ...

Docker Desktop features a simplified security context that masks many errors and failures behind the veil of a VM. Even though logs exist, diagnosing issues is difficult, and most problems are solved ...

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, ...

If you have your ear even slightly to the ground of the software community, you’ll have heard of Docker. Having recently enjoyed a tremendous rise in popularity, it continues to attract users at a ...

Docker uses a persistent background service, dockerd, to manage container lifecycles. The CLI communicates with this daemon, which supervises container creation, networking, and resource allocation.

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 ...