My playground for experimenting with Dropwizard and Docker…​

Features

• Simple REST-service based on http://www.dropwizard.io/1.2.2/docs/getting-started.html

  • Custom HealthCheck (myTemplateHealthCheck)

  • Custom Metrics (myRequestCounter,myRequestTimer)

• Exposed JMX-statistics

• Integration of Jolokia for exposing JMX via HTTP

• Dockerization

Usage

1. Create image with: docker build . --tag dropwizardexample

2. Create and run container with JMX: docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:9090:8080 -p 127.0.0.1:10005:10005 -p 127.0.0.1:9091:7777 --name dropwizardcontainer dropwizardexample:latest

3. Open webapp in browser at http://localhost:9090/hello-world?name=markiewb

4. Access JMX:

   • In the container: Access Jolokia via curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:7777/jolokia/

   • On the host: Access Jolokia via curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:9091/jolokia/

   • Connect with JMX-Client at localhost:10005