As you probably guessed, I'm going to launch Zookeeper on the local machine using its Docker image. The following command starts the Zookeeper server instance. Since it fails fast
, the best approach is to always restart it:
docker run -d --name zookeeper --restart always -p 2181:2181 zookeeper
In contrast to previously discussed solutions in this area, such as Consul or Eureka, Zookeeper doesn't provide a simple RESTful API or a web management console that allows us to easily manage it. It has an official API binding for Java and C. We may also use its command line interface, which can be easily started within the Docker container. The command visible here starts the container with the command line client, and links it to ...
