IntelliJ Idea: Creating and Running Java Applications in Docker Containers

Question

In my project, I would like container applications to load Spring not only in the production environment, but also locally. For this, I would like to:

• Run docker container (from java image)
• Click Run in IntelliJ Idea
• Build the application in the container (not using my local computer compiler, but the one that is in the container)
• Run the application in the container

Is such a scenario possible? I do not want to use Gradle or Maven to create an application in a container. I want to tell IntelliJ Idea to use the jQuery compiler of the container inside docker, and not the one I have locally.

Answer 1

What may be useful is described here . Basically you need devtools and run the spring-boot application inside the docker container - cannot be done via java -jar ... - rather with maven or gradle plugins. Then configure your java application with the RemoteSpringApplication class and it should work.

Unfortunately, I am having some problems, see this question.