The Adventures of Blink S2e2: Database, Contained

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YAML

I've mentioned a couple of times along the way that we'll have more than one docker container in this project. But we can't depend on end users to know what order to start them in, or what configurations connect them to each other. Docker provides a means of orchestrating all the containers in your app called docker-compose. This is controlled by a yaml file in the project root called docker-compose.yml. Here is how we're going to build ours (again with comments to explain what it does):.

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MongoDB

Have a Mongo database holding the various phrases we're going to use and potentially configuration data for the frontend as well.

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