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Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

By : Jarosław Krochmalski
Book Image

Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

By: Jarosław Krochmalski

Overview of this book

Imagine creating and testing Java EE applications on Apache Tomcat Server or Wildfly Application server in minutes along with deploying and managing Java applications swiftly. Sounds too good to be true? But you have a reason to cheer as such scenarios are only possible by leveraging Docker and Kubernetes. This book will start by introducing Docker and delve deep into its networking and persistent storage concepts. You will then proceed to learn how to refactor monolith application into separate services by building an application and then packaging it into Docker containers. Next, you will create an image containing Java Enterprise Application and later run it using Docker. Moving on, the book will focus on Kubernetes and its features and you will learn to deploy a Java application to Kubernetes using Maven and monitor a Java application in production. By the end of the book, you will get hands-on with some more advanced topics to further extend your knowledge about Docker and Kubernetes.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Connecting a container to the network

Now we have our myNetwork ready, we can run the Docker container and attach it to the network. To launch containers, we are going to user the docker run --net=<NETWORK> option, where the <NETWORK> is the name of one of the default networks or the one you have created yourself. Let's run Apache Tomcat for example, which is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer pages technologies:

docker run -it --net=myNetwork tomcat  

It will take a while. The Docker engine will pull all of the Tomcat's image layers from the Docker Hub and then run the Tomcat container. There's another option to attach the network to the container, you can inform Docker that you would like the container to connect to the same network as other containers use. This way, instead of specifying a network explicitly, you just...