Start and manage multiple containers with Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running applications with multiple containers. A docker-compose.yml file configures the application services.

Instead of using docker run three, four, or five times in order to start containers or scale your application, a Compose file does the hard work for you. On Triton, your containers will run on different physical servers across the cloud.

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Docker Compose makes it easy to deploy rolling changes to your application and give your users a seemless experience. As long as you have more than one instance running, you can update your application with no downtime.

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Docker Compose file syntax

While we technically support any version of the Docker Compose syntax, we don't support all the options of every version.

By default, version 1 is the most compatible. Versions 2 and above require network_mode: bridge as shown in our MySQL Autopilot Pattern compose file.