Deploy Multiple Containers Using Docker Compose 🐳📦

Introduction

Real applications are not made of one container.
They usually have:

• Frontend

• Backend

• Database

In this blog, we’ll deploy multiple containers together.

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🧩 Project Overview

We will deploy:

• Nginx (Web)

• Redis (Database)

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🛠️ Create docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:
  web:
    image: nginx
    ports:
      - "80:80"

  redis:
    image: redis

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▶️ Run All Containers

docker-compose up -d

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📊 Check Running Containers

docker ps

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🛑 Stop Everything

docker-compose down

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🧠 Why This Matters

• Microservices architecture

• Easy scaling

• Real-world deployment style

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🎯 Conclusion

Docker Compose is the easiest way to deploy multi-container applications.