intermediateDocker Compose: Services, Networks, Volumes, Scaling & Health Checks
Is Docker Compose suitable for production?
It can run real production workloads on a single host, especially for small/simple deployments, with restart policies and healthchecks providing basic resilience. However, it has no native support for multi-host scheduling, rolling updates across nodes, or automatic failover if the host itself dies — for those needs, Kubernetes (or Docker Swarm, less commonly used today) is the appropriate next step.
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