Docker Compose
Docker Compose patterns for local development covering service definitions, networking, volumes, health checks, hot reloading, and production-ready configurations.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Docker Compose: No version field needed (2025+). Health checks for all services. depends_on with condition: service_healthy. Custom networks for isolation. Named volumes for persistence. Bind mounts for dev hot-reload. Use .env for variables. docker compose watch for live sync. Non-root users in containers.
Use When
- Local development environments
- Multi-container applications
- Development/testing setups
- Single-host deployments
Skip When
- Production Kubernetes
- Single container apps
- Serverless deployments
Docker Compose
Docker Compose patterns for local development covering service definitions, networking, volumes, health checks, hot reloading, and production-ready configurations.