Developing Java Applications with Spring and Spring Boot

Testing the network

Let's test it, find the Gathering container – the container name in docker-compose is prefixed by the folder name, where docker-compose was started.

For instance, I have started my docker-compose stack in the compose folder. My container name will be compose_gathering_1 because of the folder name.

Then, we will connect the Gathering container. It can be achieved using the following command:

docker exec -it compose_gathering_1  /bin/bash

The docker exec command allows us to execute something inside the container. In our case, we will execute the /bin/bash program.

The command structure is like this:

docker exec -it <container name or container id> <program or instruction>

Awesome, pay attention to the command line. It should ...