Both docker run and docker compose can be used to run a Docker container. That is how these two Docker constructs are similar. But that’s where the similarities end.

Docker (or specifically, the docker command) is used to manage individual containers, docker-compose is used to manage multi-container applications and Kubernetes is a container orchestration tool.

Kubernetes vs Docker Compose Kubernetes and Docker Compose are both container orchestration frameworks. Kubernetes runs containers over a number of computers, virtual or real. Docker Compose runs ...