Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

Creating a Dockerfile

In order to create a Docker image, we need to first create a Dockerfile, a file that will include the instructions that we will give to Docker in order to build our image. To create this file, on the top of the Project window, right-click on chapter07 and then select in the drop-down menu New | File, and type Dockerfile. In the next window, click OK, and the file will be created.

IntelliJ will recognize that file and offer a plugin to handle it. At the top of the editing window, a message will appear as Plugins supporting Dockerfile files found. On the right of this message, we will see Install Plugins Ignore extension. Let's click on Install Plugins to allow IntelliJ to handle this file. This will require the IDE to ...