Ok, you know Docker. And since you are a Java developer you want to know how you can use this in your daily development workflow. You probably also heard about the docker-maven-plugin which seamlessly creates Docker images, starts and stops Docker containers and more all with a concise configuration syntax.

And now there is this new goal docker:watch.

We developers are lazy, right ? We want our code to compile fast, we want the servers to start up fast. And we want to test changes quickly. That’s why we love OSGi¹ and JRebel. And we want this for Docker containers, too.

Good news. docker-maven-plugin will support hot rebuild of Docker images and hot restart of containers with a new Maven goal docker:watch. It will be released with version 0.12.1. For the brave coder 0.12.1-SNAPSHOT is already out there, the documentation can be found here.

But before losing more words, here’s a sneak preview.