Inspired by ipify.org, I decided to write a java version of the service. Just for kicks
Clone the code and run mvn test
to test the code base
Docker image of this code is available here -> https://hub.docker.com/r/parjanya/getexternalip
To use
docker pull parjanya/getexternalip
docker run -p 9998:9998 parjanya/getexternalip