docker-compose-fragment.yml

version: '2'
services:
  # Notice how the service name, container name and repo directory (where the Dockerfile lives) all match.
  backend-api:
    container_name: backend-api
    build: ./backend-api
    restart: on-failure
    ports:
      # The application is running on port 8080 which other containers will use,
      # we expose it here and map it to a unique port that it will be exposed on the host with.
      # If you don't want it available to the host at all, leave this line out but ensure your
      # Dockerfile EXPOSEs it for the other containers.
      - "9998:8080"
    volumes:
      # Our convention is to always map the app files to /src within the container
      - ./backend-api:/src
    logging:
      driver: syslog
      options:
        syslog-format: "rfc5424"
        syslog-address: "tcp://localhost:25826"
        tag: "{{.Name}}"
    depends_on:
      - logstash
  # THE BELOW SECTION IS ONLY IF THE APP IS USING NGINX AS A COMMODITY
  # Ensures the app is started before nginx so it can resolve the hostname and not error out
  nginx:
    depends_on:
      - backend-api