Docker Compose Patterns

Trigger Boundary

• •Use when runtime packaging, orchestration, or infrastructure controls must be defined.
• •Do not use for product requirement decomposition; use requirements-* or user-story-writing.
• •Do not use for post-incident review output; use incident-postmortem.

Goal

Establish reproducible, secure, and operable runtime platforms.

Inputs

• •Change scope and risk profile
• •Domain evidence for multi-service local orchestration and dependency wiring
• •Operational, compliance, and rollout constraints

Outputs

• •Compose topology specification
• •Decision log for multi-service local orchestration and dependency wiring
• •Verification checklist with measurable pass-fail criteria

Workflow

1. •Clarify outcomes and hard constraints for multi-service local orchestration and dependency wiring.
2. •Produce options and select an approach for multi-service local orchestration and dependency wiring.
3. •Evaluate trade-offs across security, performance, operability, and maintainability.
4. •Verify decisions using orchestration startup-order and healthcheck validation.
5. •Publish decisions, residual risks, and accountable follow-up actions.

Quality Gates

• •Scope and assumptions for multi-service local orchestration and dependency wiring are explicit and reviewable.
• •Decision rationale is backed by evidence instead of preference.
• •Rollout and rollback criteria are defined when production impact exists.
• •Residual risks have owners, due dates, and verification steps.

Failure Handling

• •Stop when service dependencies are not consistently reproducible.
• •Escalate when accepted risk exceeds team policy thresholds.