Hands-On Microservices with Kotlin

Integrating Docker with Maven

Now that we know most of the Docker concepts, we can integrate Docker with Maven using the Docker-Maven-plugin created by fabric8, so we can create Docker as part of our Maven builds. First, we will move our Dockerfile to a different folder. In the IntelliJ Project window, right-click on the src folder and choose New | Directory. We will name it Docker. Now, drag and drop the existing Dockerfile into this new directory, and we will change it to the following:

FROM openjdk:8-jdk-alpineADD maven/*.jar microservice.jarENTRYPOINT ["java","-jar", "microservice.jar"]

To manage the Dockerfile better, we just move into our project folders. When our Docker is built using the plugin, the contents of our application will ...