What’s the difference between Docker Compose and Kubernetes?
A rough description of where Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Cloud, and Kubernetes overlap and where one is dependent on the other
3 min readNov 5, 2021
Short answer:
docker-compose
: is a tool that takes a YAML file which describes your multi-container application and helps you create, start/stop, remove all those containers without having to type multipledocker ...
commands for each container.