Category: docker

Definition of a Dockerfile to use bash scripts on a Windows 10 machine for our Cloud-Native-Starter workshop

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We defined a Dockerfile to create a Docker image for our Cloud-Native-Starter workshop especially for Windows 10 users. The users can now simply create a Docker image on the local Windows 10 machine and then follow the guided steps in the hands-on workshop documentation and use the bash scripts. The reason why we don’t build a Docker image and share the image on Dockerhub is, we want to provide users the freedom of own customizations.

These are some challenges we had during the testing of the Dockerfile definition:

  • File sharing for Docker images on Windows
  • Docker port forwarding
  • Docker in Docker
  • Istio Virtual service configuration
  • Linux tools missing

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How to build a container

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I want to describe another way to run the  Highscores-Service of the #BlueCloudMirror game . In the game I use  IBM Cloud Foundry apps, now I want to explore IBM Cloud Kubernetes.

Note: The #BlueCloudMirror game we  @Niklas, @Harald and I made, is available as an Pattern on IBM Developer.

Let’s get started with the first step, building a container which contains the Scores-Service using Docker .

This blog post is all about building and running a docker container on a local machine.

Topics you will find in this post: my experience of  learning how configure a Dockerfile along  with my creation of the Dockerfile for the score-service, including following steps:

  • Choosing the base image
  • Installing the needed packaging tools
  • Defining the source code location and copying the source code into the container
  • Configuring a new user and group for Bower , a package manager
  • Setting up the Score-Service
  • Running the Score-Service container locally

Note: This is not a blueprint, this is just how I did it and I share my experience with you.

Architecture of the Scores-Service

This is the relevant architecture for building the Docker container.  The Scores-Service UI and the Scores Core Service will run in the Docker container locally. The Cloudant service still runs on IBM Cloud.

scores-service-docker

 

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