In the previous article of this series, we created a simple freestyle job that would package a simple Maven Project. In this article, we are going to build a docker image with a Jenkins freestyle job for our project and…
In this article, we will look into how we can persist data in Docker with Docker volumes. Let’s think about a database such as MySQL where we store data. In MySQL, data is usually stored inside /var/lib/mysql directory. If we…
What is Jenkins? Jenkins is an open source automation server. It helps automate the parts of software development related to building, testing, and deploying, facilitating continuous integration and continuous delivery. Wikipedia Preparing the Server To start with, you need to…
In previous articles we built our own image and deployed our application into Apache Tomcat server. As you might be aware, Tomcat has a manager app which allows us to mange the web applications deployed on the server. We can…
This article is connected to previous articles in this Docker series. If you have come to this article without reading them, and feel a little lost, I would recommend going through following articles first. Dockerfile: Layered Architecture Dockerfile: Multi-stage Build…
If you are here without reading the previous articles Dockerfile: Layered Architecture and Dockerfile: Multi-stage Build, then I would encourage you to read them first as the foundation for this article is there. In the previous article we built an…
If you are here without reading the previous article Dockerfile: Layered Architecture, then I would encourage you to read it first as some of the things in this article would not make sense without that. In the previous article, we…
Dockerfile Understanding the Dockerfile is pretty easy when you think about the steps you need to follow to run your application if you were not using containers. Let’s assume you need to run a JavaEE application on an Apache Tomcat…
One of the reasons Docker containers and services are so powerful is that you can connect them together, or connect them to non-Docker services too if necessary. Docker containers and services do not even need to be aware that they…
When you look up Docker Hub for a particular image, all the environment variables relevant for that particular image are listed there. Some of these environment variables are mandatory while others are optional. Environment variables allow us to set certain…
