Mastering JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7

Creating your Docker images

So far we have used a pre-built image with an operating system image. We will now show you how to create your own Docker image, containing EAP 7 and its required dependencies, such as the JDK environment.

In order to do that, we will use a Dockerfile, which is a text file that contains all the commands needed in order to build a specific image.

Note

The available set of commands are described in depth in the site's documentation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/.

Here we will discuss the set of commands required to create an EAP 7 image: create a file named Dockerfile and include the following content:

### Set the base image FROM jboss/base-jdk:8 ### File Author / Maintainer MAINTAINER "Francesco Marchioni" ...