Create a Multi Container Docker Application

Introduction

So far, we have worked on those applications which are small and need only a single container. But in real world, a large and complex application does not run on a single container. Also, with the advent of Microservices, each component of a web based application typically runs on separate containers.

In this post, we will create multiple containers of an application and will run each container in Docker Swarm.

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Create a Docker Container From Multiple Files

Introduction

In the previous post, we have discussed how can we create a custom Docker container image.

In this post, we will build another custom Docker container image, this time a little more complex, using more than one files. Our container image will contain a Python based web application.

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Create a Custom Docker Image

Introduction

In the previous post, we have covered how to work with Docker container and Docker image.

In this post, we will see how to create a custom container image using Dockerfile. We will download an Ubuntu image from Docker hub and customize it as per our requirement. After that, we will build our custom Ubuntu image.

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