Demo App - Spring Boot Local Development on Docker

Getting Started

Install Docker

https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

Build and Run the code

docker-compose build
docker-compose up

Test

On visiting http://localhost:8080/api/ in your browser

You should see "Hello Human"

Notice that you don't have to re-build the code when you make code changes. You can even enable automatic refresh on Chrome by installing LiveReload plugin

Test Database persistence

Create a record

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8080/api/employees/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "John Doe"
}'

List all records

curl http://localhost:8080/api/employees/

Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

• Official Apache Maven documentation
• Spring Boot Maven Plugin Reference Guide
• Create an OCI image
• Spring Boot DevTools

Troubleshooting

Code changes are not automatically detected

docker/for-win#8479