Docker support? about payara

[smillidge]

Hi Peter,

It's something we've discussed and we want to do? What I need to know is what people want in the way of Docker support. Is there things specific to Payara Server that need to be built into the internals? Is it a supported Docker image people want to act as a base to build on?

We are open to ideas.

Steve

[mamboking]

We just started using the official glassfish image as our base image. It would be great if we had a Payara one instead.

[realityforge]

Hi,

I have finally got some time allocated to try and get this completed. The way we have decided to go is to bake a few images;

• One base image with glassfish/payara bits on it. (See busybox-glassfish)
• One base image with a single glassfish domain defined. (See busybox-glassfish-domain)
• One base image with a single OpenMQ broker instance defined.

From these base image we would then configure them using a declarative json description of the broker instance or glassfish domain. This json format would be roughly derived from the chef-glassfish cookbook (See #51).

To achieve this we have decided to extract the logic from chef-glassfish cookbook and re-write it with extensive tests. You can see the start of progress towards this at redfish. After we have got redfish to a further state of evolution, the plan would be to re-write chef-glassfish in terms of redfish.

So I just thought I would note what strategies we are trying. Also long term I would be interested in moving it under the payara project itself if this approach is successful.

[smillidge]

Initial Docker images are up. We welcome comments.

https://hub.docker.com/u/payaradocker/

[making]

@smillidge Is there Dockerfile? I'd like to know how to configure.

[making]

Sorry, found https://github.com/payara/docker