While Docker Compose is normally used for development and testing, it can also be used for deploying production applications. For the sake of this tutorial, I concentrate on dev-and-test scenarios.

If you've built scores of docker-compose.yml files and are migrating to AlmaLinux, you'll need to install the podman-compose tool so you can keep using those files. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Learn the key differences between Docker Desktop and Docker Engine to optimize containerization, DevOps workflows, and development setups.

Both docker run and docker compose can be used to run a Docker container. That is how these two Docker constructs are similar. But that’s where the similarities end.

Broken down into its component parts, Docker comprises Dockerfile, container images, the Docker run utility, Docker Hub, Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and Docker Desktop. Dockerfile.