Many times I see docker compose files used in Fabric but since I am new to both docker (container) and fabric (blockchain), I find it difficult to understand why these configuration works and which settings should I change in order to make the network running or functioning accordingly. This post is a summary of what I have learned.

File Extensions

.yaml (.yml)

YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) is a human-readable data serialization language¹

It’s a strict superset of JSON, with the addition of syntactically significant newlines and indentation, like Python. Unlike Python, however, YAML doesn’t allow literal tab characters for indentation.²

.json

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open-standard file format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute-value pairs and array data types (or any other serializable value).³

Docker Compose

The Compose file is a YAML file defining services, networks, and volumes for a Docker application.⁴

version: '3'
services:
  web:
    build: .
    ports:
    - "5000:5000"
    volumes:
    - .:/code
    - logvolume01:/var/log
    links:
    - redis
  redis:
    image: redis
volumes:
  logvolume01: {}

Examples

base (source files)
cli
couch
e2e-template
kafka
org3

Keys (with reference)

version
service
volume: mount host folders