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How to run multi-service stacks with Docker Compose

Build Stackwake, a multi-service Compose lab with app + database with Docker Compose, YAML, services, networks.

  • Difficulty Intermediate
  • Parts 10
  • Stack Docker Compose, YAML, services, networks

What you are learning

Stackwake is a multi-service Compose lab with app + database. The teaching focus is Compose (Docker Compose, YAML, services, networks).

Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.

How to use these lessons

Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.

Open the Stackwake GitHub repo →

Parts in order

Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this lab.