In this article, we learned the difference between Docker and Docker Compose. You learn how to write your own compose.yaml to manage multiple containers at once. You also learn to persist data with volumes, how to communicate via networks and how to access the container or the logs from the host system.

In this step-by-step Docker Compose tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create simple containers, map ports with Docker Compose all the way to complex multi-container scenarios.

Various Docker Compose examples of selfhosted FOSS and proprietary projects.