Docker Compose Patterns That Actually Scale
Docker Compose is the tool everyone recommends and nobody does correctly. You start with three services in a YAML file. Six months later you have thirty, and your docker-compose.yml is a file that nobody fully understands but everybody fears touching. I’ve been through this pattern enough times that I’ve developed a structure that actually holds up as projects grow. What follows isn’t official Docker guidance — it’s the lessons I learned from breaking things repeatedly. ...