docker-compose: using multiple Dockerfiles for multiple services

Question

I\'m using docker-compose and I\'d like to use different Dockerfiles for different services\' build steps. The docs seem to suggest to place different Dockerfiles in different d

Answer 1

Creator of ShutIt here. Gratified to hear that people are hearing good things about it.

To be honest, in your position I'd write your own Dockerfile and use standard package management such as apt or yum. A quick check with an ubuntu image and python-pip and python-sqlalchemy are freely available.

There are more convoluted solutions that may work for you using ShutIt, happy to discuss this offline, as I think it's a bit off-topic. ShutIt was written for this kind of use case, as I could see that this would be a common problem given Dockerfiles' limited utility outside the microservices space.