Modern Systems Programming with Scala Native

Running Scala Native in Docker

Now that we’ve established that Docker is running and properly configured, we can hit Ctrl + C in the docker run terminal to shut down our nginx container. Running Scala Native in Docker is just as easy: I’ve published an image called rwhaling/scala-native-book with a full Scala Native installation and all of the code in the book on Docker Hub, so let’s run it like this:

$ docker run -it -p 8080:8080 rwhaling/scala-native-book
:scala-native:~ $ ~/book-code #

Unlike nginx, which started the nginx server immediately, this container opens up a shell. In this Appendix, you’ll know you’re in the container environment when you see a prompt like :scala-native:some_directory $, whereas a prompt on your host machine ...