Working With Compose Apps

If you have read the previous tutorials, you are familiar with Docker and Docker Compose. This tutorial will guide you through the examples also present in our documentation on Compose Apps. Additional implementation steps are provided to give you more experience in creating your own applications.

Note

Estimated Time to Complete this Tutorial: 30 minutes

Learning Objectives

• Improve your knowledge of Compose Apps.
• Create a single container application.
• Create a multiple container application.

Prerequisites

• Completed the Getting Started With Docker tutorial.
• Completed the Creating Your First Target tutorial.
• Completed the Deploying Your First Application tutorial.
• Read the Compose Apps reference manual.

Instructions

• File Structure
• Docker Compose Apps
• Applications
• Mosquitto Broker
• Shellhttpd-MQTT
• Flask-MQTT-Nginx
• Commit and Push New Applications
• Testing Applications
• Checking App State
• Summary