Mastering Microservices with Java - Third Edition

Running Docker using Maven

To execute a Docker image with Maven, we need to add the configuration in the pom.xml file under the <run> block of docker-maven-plugin. Please refer to the <run> section under the docker-maven-plugin block in pom.xml.

We have defined the parameters for running our restaurant-service container. We have mapped Docker container ports 8080 and 8081 to the host system's ports, which allows us to access the service. Similarly, we have also bound the containers' logs directory to the host systems' <home>/logs directory.

The Docker Maven plugin can detect whether the container has finished starting up by polling the ping URL of the admin backend until it receives an answer.

Please note that a Docker host is not a localhost ...