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Learn Docker - from the beginning, part IV docker-compose basics

Chris Noring on February 26, 2019

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /Chris This article is part of a series: Docker - from the begin...

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Anjum Rashid • Sep 18 '22

The article link for Microservice over Monolithic Architecture argument is broken now. This is the working link.

orphee • Mar 13 '19

Just pointing out 2 misstypings :)

docker stop && docker rm becomes docker-compose-down

should be

docker stop && docker rm becomes docker-compose down

and

so full command is now:

docker compose up -d

should be

so full command is now:

docker-compose up -d

Chris Noring • Mar 13 '19

Thank you for making this article better. It should be corrected now :)

Khang Pham • Jan 31 '22

Great article. Thanks for making it!

Mic • Apr 28 '19

Thank you so much for writing this! I am using docker for first time at new job and this explains to me what I'm doing when I paste in my go-to commands.

Chris Noring • Apr 28 '19

hi Mic. Really appreciate you writing this comment. This is why I wrote this..

Mateusz Krawczuk • Feb 21 '20

I'd just like to point out that the article is inconsistent about the .yaml and .yml extension in the docker-compose file.

Bouchaib MASSIOUI • Nov 15 '21

Thanks a lot :)

TheBadCoder • Jan 12 '20

Where do I can get the source code for inventory service or shall I just copy some part from product-service where I just get the hello world message?

Chris Noring • Jan 12 '20

Here it is

```const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = process.env.PORT || 3000;

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello inventory service'))```

TheBadCoder • Jan 13 '20

Thank you Chris, you are quick😊 I did something similar. Both of my containers are up and running but don't know why I can not access the (localhost:external_port) from my host machine !!