Container Compose

Definitions

1. A declarative way to define and run multi-container applications, commonly associated with Compose-style configuration files that specify services, networks, volumes, and dependencies. It is widely used in local development and small deployments where coordinating several containers together matters more than full cluster orchestration.

   In plain English: A configuration-based way to run several related containers together.

   Example: "The onboarding docs used container compose so new engineers could start the API, database, and queue locally with one command."

Related Terms

• Application Container
• Base Image
• Cloud Container
• Container Build
• Container Cluster
• Container Daemon
• Container Engine
• Container Init
• Container Layer
• Container Probe