alt Hacker NewsDocker Compose was production ready in 2015 and it still is today. I've lost track of how many projects I've deployed with it and never really ran into a single issue where Docker Compose was at fault. It's super solid.
Some time ago I've written about my experiences using it in production https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/why-i-like-using-docker-compo.... Not just for my own projects but for $500 million dollar companies and more.
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Hey, just want to say thank you for your blog. I've learned so much about Docker, dev tooling, and engineering from reading it over the past 7 years.
Thank you. I had been procrastinating on learning how to work with containers and finally got a handle on Docker Compose to play with self-hosting a coding agent and was worried that I'd once again procrastinated so long that I'd picked something up long after it was already dead.
I love Docker Compose. It is simple to use, easy to organize and manage, and very robust. Also, our company does not need to "scale" production aggressively. Our production load is very predictable, so Docker Compose fits like a glove.
We have been using it for more than five years now. Before that, we had a legacy deployment model, and I do not remember a single major issue related to Docker Compose.
We use it for both staging and production environments. The same Docker image validated in staging is deployed to production. Never fails!