Deploying with JRuby 9k

Installing Docker

Deployment is the process of taking code or binaries from one environment and moving them to a another environment where you execute them. In the case of a web app case, you’ll move code from your development machine to a production server. You’ve already configured a development environment, but you still need to create a production environment you can use as the target of your deployments. For this, you’ll use Docker,^[24] which reduces the process of provisioning a production environment to just a few steps.

Docker is a Linux-based containerization platform. It runs processes in isolated environments without the need for a complete visualization layer for each process. You can use Docker to run multiple isolated processes ...