Create the app image (here called hume). Run this from the app/ directory:
docker build -t hume .
Create your nginx image. Run this from the /nginx directory:
docker build -t hume-nginx .
Run it all (create the containers):
(each of these commands can be run from a separate terminal window or else pass the
-d flag to daemonize instead of the --rm flag (these are incompatible flags))
docker run --name hume1 -p 8000 --rm hume
docker run --name hume2 -p 8000 --rm hume
docker run --name hume3 -p 8000 --rm hume
docker run --name nginx -p 80:80 --link hume1:hume1 --link hume2:hume2 --link hume3:hume3 --rm hume-nginx
When we run hume-nginx all those links are linking the other containers to what
the nginx server is configured to look for (in this case, by those same names) in
nginx.conf.
This will make the application available on port 80 at the ip address of the host
machine. If you're using docker-machine (like on a Mac) then this will not be
localhost, because it's running a VirtualBox machine that the containers are
living in. To get the ip address run in your docker terminal:
docker-machine ip default
Go to <machine_ip>/count to get a count of the number of visits. You'll see that
the count jumps around a bit, showing the load balancer at work (each proxied
server keeps its own count of how many times its gotten requests).
Alternatively, you can make it all happen at once via docker-compose via the
docker-compose.yml file. From the directory where that file lives, run:
docker-compose up -d
The -d flag runs it in the background. To see running processes now, instead of
docker ps you run docker-compose ps. And to stop the process you run
docker-compose stop.