Simulating a docker compose flow ?

[iangregsondev]

Hi,

Sorry for the probably easy question :-) I would like to deploy a number of containers that are related to each other.

I assume the best way of doing this is just to deploy each container manually using bollard and set them to a common network, so they can access each other?

I suppose what I am trying to do is deploy a similar construct to what a docker-compose file would do.

I did see some talk about a stack (which is related to swarm) and wondered if my approach of the manually of creating containers and starting them individually using a common network, is in fact the correct way of doing this?

Do you have an example out of interest, no worries if you don't, I will start to look at it.

Just didn't want to re-invent the wheel if it was something already taken care of.

Coming from a GO background so Rust is still kind of new to me and finding my ground.

Thanks

[fussybeaver]

Yeah, you can certainly do this with bollard.. and what you describe is how you would go about it, but bollard is a relatively low-level API client, so you might find something more ergonomic elsewhere.

I think if you look around at libraries that use bollard underneath, you'll find some frameworks that do better plumbing around your use-case. Perhaps the community can pitch in here with some suggestions, I haven't used this one, but it seems popular - https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-rs

[iangregsondev]

Thanks, yes I took a look at that, it appears its written for testing BUT it does seem to include every that I would need.

I am going to take a closer look.

Thanks!