docker-grails-war-deployment

In this repo we shall have steps to deploy grails and groovy application war through Docker image.

Set-up environment

• Java 7
• Grails 2.X
• Docker-for-windows
• Apache-tomcat-7x

Description of dockerfile in this repo .

FROM java:7 : refers to what we base our current docker image with. In our case , Java 7 it is.

MAINTAINER : Name of the deployer/maintainer

RUN : Typically requires archive/install location for the packages/libraries our application depends on.

ADD : Copies files(in our case the .war file) from local host machine to MobyLinuxVM'a tomcat . Ex. FTP-0.1.war apache-tomcat-7.0.55/webapps/

CMD : Command the docker daemon to run the application using apache-tomcat-7.0.55/bin/startup.sh && tail -f apache-tomcat-
7.0.55/logs/catalina.out

EXPOSE : Mention the port tomcat instance would run.

Build the docker image

Traverse to the folder containing dockerfile( if necessary according to the path for .war, this folder can containe .war to be deployed)

`docker build -t name-of-image .`

 - Eg : docker build -t grails-application-tomcat-im

Run the docker image

`docker run name-of-image`

 - Eg : docker run  grails-application-tomcat-im