After his introductory series, Tom Fenton deploys a database on Docker and integrates it with other apps deployed from other Docker images. In my Introduction to Docker series, I covered the basics of ...

The homelab that talks back.

Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

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, ...

For those who are just looking for the commands to run to install Docker and docker compose on Ubuntu, here they are all listed together. We will go into more detail on how these commands work and ...