When comparing Minikube vs Docker Compose, the Slant community recommends Docker Compose for most people. In the question“What are the best Docker orchestration tools?” Docker Compose is ranked 4th while Minikube is ranked 9th. The most important reason people chose Docker Compose is:
All that's needed to setup a multi-container application with Compose is a single file configuration file. Finally the application can be spun up with only a single command.
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Addons
Pro Supports Windows 10 Home
Pro Easy setup
All that's needed to setup a multi-container application with Compose is a single file configuration file. Finally the application can be spun up with only a single command.
Pro Great for local development
Docker-compose isn't really meant (yet) for distributed deployment, but using it to deploy a website locally for testing is awesome. You could use it, with care (like handling faults), on a single server as well.
Cons
Con Not for production
Not suitable for production Kubernetes deployments.
Con More geared towards development
No really made for production.
Con Not ready for production yet
While Compose is very good for staging servers, CI and development environments, it's still not ready for production and it's not recommended to be used in production yet.