Acorn from the Eyes of a Docker Compose User

In the?last article?of our series on the?Acorn Platform as a Service for Kubernetes, I introduced the architecture and the design of the Acorn deployment framework. This tutorial will compare Acorn with Docker Compose and Kubernetes object definitions.

Before going further, make sure you followed the steps to install Acorn on Minikube explained in the previous tutorial.

Step 1: Exploring Azure Vote Microservices Application

Let’s choose a simple containerized application popular among?Docker?developers — the Azure Vote application.

The application consists of two layers — a Python Flask frontend and a Redis backend. Each layer of this microservices application is deployed as a container.

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