How to understand running containers with docker-compose

Zhao Li
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
5 min readJun 9, 2019

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Problem

Now that we have downloaded an image on to our local development machine (aka host). What can we do with this image?

Solution

One possible option we have is to run a container based on this image.

This tutorial will go through running a Docker image from Docker Hub and then understand what happened.

Here are the steps we will take:

  1. reuse our existing docker-compose.yml file in conjunction…

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