A simple docker-compose template

Date: 2022-09-28
Author: MvS
keywords: software-architecture, docker-compose

Description

Use as a template for a docker-compose based image builds and deployments using a Makefile and an .env file for customization.

Running the Docker compose pipeline

1. Copy .env.dist to .env (no adjustments required / for future use with credentials)
2. Run make run-compose and let the container for the simple stack come online.
3. Use CTRL+C to shut down the stack
4. Invoke make clean and make clean stack=extended, respectively to remove the stack

Manual access to container

Using compose:
docker-compose exec <container-name> env SAMPLEPAR="testing" bash

Using docker:
docker exec -it <container-name> bash