/python-web-hello-compose

Primary LanguagePython

Prerequisites

This is a continuation of my python-web-hello sample application. This will only really make sense if you have at least read the README for that.

How to run it

  1. Build the Flask and NGINX image

    cd ~/Github/python-web-hello-compose
docker-compose build .

  2. Run the Flask and NGINX containers

    docker-compose up

Docker Compose

What I've done is to split the uWSGI server (which is hosting the Flask application) from the NGINX server. A good practice for Docker containers is for them to have separate roles. In my previous example 1 server performed both roles, now we have 2 severs each performing it's own role.

I've used docker compose which allows me to specify my build and run configuration in a .yml file and use the docker-compose command to launch them.

In the process of splitting apart the Flask and NGINX server, I was able to reduce the amount of customisation I needed and totally removed the start.sh script. This is by far a better solution.