try-docker-python-server

🐳 A pretty simple try on Docker with a server written in Python

Motivation

Learn more about Docker. Based on: Gael Thomas, How to create a client/server side with Docker-Compose

Running the Docker Containers

In order to accomplish the steps ahead successfully, you must install Docker first. Docker Official Website

# from repository root directory
docker-compose build

This command will setup the containers.

Then feel free to run the docker-compose as follows:

docker-compose up

Now open your browser and go to the following URL: http://localhost:8080/

You must see an HTML website served by Python's simple HTTP Client.

Commands for Docker Compose

Command	Description
docker-compose exec <service name> <command>	Executes a command in the specified container
docker-compose ps	Lists containers
docker-compose logs	Logs from services
docker-compose images	Lists images
docker-compose down	Stops containers and removes images created in this instance of docker-compose
docker-compose down -v --rmi all --remove-orphans	Removes all data generated by the specified instance of docker-compose