Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8

Containerizing Java EE 8 microservices

In this section, we're going to take a look at how to containerize and run our Java EE 8 microservice using Docker. We'll learn how to write a basic Docker file, and we'll also see how to build and run the Docker image using Payara Server full and Payara Server micro edition. Let's open our IDE again to the microservice project from the previous section; all that's missing here is Dockerfile, therefore let's create one.

Now the question is: what base image should we use? We have two basic options when using Payara: you can either use the server-full image or the Payara micro edition. Let's use the full version of Payara first. Dockerfile will be as follows:

FROM payara/server-full:5-SNAPSHOTCOPY target/hello-javaee8.war ...