Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications

With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application's services. Then, with a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration.

1. Multiple isolated environments on a single host
2. Preserve volume data when containers are created
3. Only recreate containers that have changed
4. Variables and moving a composition between environments

https://docs.docker.com/compose/#features

The following example shows how to get the docker-compose version.

[ec2-user@ip-172-16-0-86 ~]$ docker-compose -version

docker-compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192