How do I go from development docker-compose yml to deployed docker-compose yml in AWS

Question

These are my docker-compose.yml commands:

version: '3'
services:
    server:
        build:
            context: ../../
            dockerfile: ./packages/website/Dockerfile
        command: yarn serve
        environment:
            PORT: 3000
            NODE_ENV: production
        restart: always
    nginx:
        build:
            context: ./
            dockerfile: ./nginx/Dockerfile
        command: nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -g "daemon off;"
        depends_on:
            - server
        ports:
            - "80:80"
        restart: always

It works here locally but now I want to deploy this to t2.micro or some other paid services but I am not really sure how to do it.

My plan is to create a separate docker-compose.yml file which refers to the images rather than the physical dockerfile(s)
Please just drop in an answer to aware me about this.
Thanks in Advance!

Answer 1

It can work if you try to put the entire directory into the cloud while keeping the entire directory structure.

If you just want to upload the docker-compose.yml file into the cloud without anything else, you'd need to modify it by removing the building field and adding an image: xxx field.

Now the question comes up is that "how can I refer to an image in my docker-compose.yml file`.

You can achieve it in two ways:

1. Build the image and put it in some container registry, it can be DockerHub, or a private one and refer to it with registry-url/image-name:image-tag. In case you're using DockerHub, you can ignore the registry-url/ part.
2. Build the image and scp to the cloud and refer to it with image-name:image-tag.

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