Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. In other words, if you have a need to define a service that requires more than one Docker container to function, ...

Containers are meant to provide component isolation in a modern software stack. Put your database in one container, your web application in another, and they can all be scaled, managed, restarted, and ...

Between its well-documented nature, beginner-friendly collection of tools, and thousands of first and third-party images, Docker has a large following in the self-hosting and home lab communities.