manage docker with maven

In this example I'm going to demonstrate how easily amd quick postgres database can be started in docker by using fabric8 docker-maven-plugin

Table of Content

• Install
• docker run -d with mvn docker:start
• docker rm -f -v with mvn docker:stop
• Help with mvn docker:help
• Reference for reading

install

assuming you have in your pom.xml file:

  <properties>
    <postgres.docker.name>healthcheck/postgres:alpine</postgres.docker.name>
    <postgres.docker.log.prefix>postgres</postgres.docker.log.prefix>
    <postgres.docker.ports.1>5432:5432</postgres.docker.ports.1>
    <!--<postgres.docker.ports.1>${itest.postgres.port}:5432</postgres.docker.ports.1>-->
    <postgres.docker.env.POSTGRES_DB>postgres</postgres.docker.env.POSTGRES_DB>
    <postgres.docker.envRun.POSTGRES_USER>postgres</postgres.docker.envRun.POSTGRES_USER>
    <postgres.docker.envRun.POSTGRES_PASSWORD>postgres</postgres.docker.envRun.POSTGRES_PASSWORD>
    <postgres.docker.wait.time>10000</postgres.docker.wait.time>
    <postgres.docker.wait.log>PostgreSQL init process complete</postgres.docker.wait.log>
  </properties>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>io.fabric8</groupId>
        <artifactId>docker-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>0.28.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <allContainers>true</allContainers>
          <removeVolumes>true</removeVolumes>
          <watchInterval>500</watchInterval>
          <logDate>default</logDate>
          <verbose>true</verbose>
          <autoPull>always</autoPull>
          <images>
            <image>
              <external>
                <type>properties</type>
                <prefix>postgres.docker</prefix>
              </external>
            </image>
          </images>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

start

start postgres container with docker run -d -p 5432:5432 ... healthcheck/postgres:apline command

mvn docker:start

stop

stop and remove container, like with docker rm -f -v postgres-1 command

mvn docker:start

help

mvn docker:help

cleanup if you missed to remove your other images

for i in $(docker images -q -f dangling=true); do docker rmi -f $i ; done

read more

• External Configuration
• docker:stop reference