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

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

read more

• External Configuration
• docker:stop reference