Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Running the Tweet Dispatcher container

There is no secret to running the Tweet Dispatcher container. We can use the following command to run it:

docker run -d --name dispatcher --net twitter -p 9099:9099 springfivebyexample/tweet_dispatcher

It will spin up the container, it is a good idea to name the container during the run. It can help us manage the container with command-line tools, such as docker container ls or docker ps, because it shows the container name in the last column. Then, let's check if our container is running, so type the following command:

docker container ls

Or, you can run the following command:

docker ps

We should be able to see the Gathering container running, like in the following output:

There are five containers, ...