Docker Compose Production Practices

Production Readiness

• Use immutable image versions.
• Persist only data that needs persistence.
• Configure health checks for critical services.
• Keep secrets outside images and source control.
• Publish only required ports.
• Set resource limits where appropriate.
• Run services as non-root users where possible.
• Back up stateful data independently.
• Monitor logs, metrics, disk, CPU, memory, and container health.