Composing and running the scraper locally with docker-compose

Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application’s services. Then, with a single command and a simple configuration file, you create and start all the services from your configuration.

Getting ready

The first thing that needs to be done to use Compose is to make sure it is installed. Compose is automatically installed with Docker for macOS. On other platforms, it may or not be installed. You can find the instructions at the following URL: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/#prerequisites.

Also, make sure all of the existing containers that we created earlier are not running, as we will create new ones.

How to do it

We proceed with the recipe as follows:

1. Docker Compose uses a docker-compose.yml file that tells Docker how to compose containers as services.  In the 10/05 folder there is a docker-compose.yml file to start up all the parts...