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Getting Started with Docker Compose: Bringing Up Bookstore with a Single compose.yaml

Docker Compose defines Bookstore's API, web and SQL Server containers, their network and volume in one compose.yaml and brings them all up together with docker compose up -d. With real output we look at the file's anatomy, build versus image, the project name, DNS by service name, the logs/exec/config commands, what down and down -v do to your data and why the version field is now obsolete.