Docker compose sample

Abstract

• Building dev servers on local machine
• boot2docker + Debian container (Redis, MySQL, Postfix)
• Used Docker Compose (New version of fig).

Initial setup

• install docker, docker compose and boot2docker

% brew install boot2docker docker docker-compose

Start

• start host vm and set environment variables.

% boot2docker up
% $(boot2docker shellinit)

• start containers

% docker-compose up
or
% docker-compose up -d # daemon mode

Show information

• show containers

% docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                         COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                          NAMES
77119d9a4dfd        composetest_mysql:latest     "/usr/local/bin/run"   5 seconds ago       Up 2 seconds        0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp         composetest_mysql_1
73ecfbc4f886        composetest_redis:latest     "/usr/bin/redis-serv   6 seconds ago       Up 3 seconds        0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp         composetest_redis_1
d72f97fac9ba        composetest_postfix:latest   "sh -c 'service rsys   8 seconds ago       Up 4 seconds        25/tcp, 0.0.0.0:25->8025/tcp   composetest_postfix_1

• show host ip address

% boot2docker ip
192.168.59.104
% mysql -u docker --password=docker -h `boot2docker ip`

Halt

% docker-compose stop
% boot2docker halt

Issues

• 8025 does not listen.