Project title

Spring Boot java API + Postgres

Motivation

A single resource API to demonstrate how to package a JAVA app with docker

Installation

Step 1

Create a network

  $ docker network create --driver bridge java_app_network

Step 2

Run postgres in this network

  docker run --net=java_app_network -p 5432:5432 \
             -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=docker \
             -e POSTGRES_USER=docker \
             -e POSTGRES_DB=docker \
             --name postgres postgres:9.5-alpine

Step 3

Build Demo Spring boot project

  $ docker build -t spring_starter .

Step 4

Run the container in the java_app_network network

  $ docker run --net=java_app_network -p 8080:8080 spring_starter

API Reference

GET http://localhost:8080/api/v1/employees

POST http://localhost:8080/api/v1/employees
body_params { "name": "Alex", "age": 22 }

GET http://localhost:8080/api/v1/employees/1

DELETE http://localhost:8080/api/v1/employees/1

How to use?

A postman collection has been added

Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

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