My docker-maven-plugin is undergoing a major refactoring. This post explains the motivation behind this and also what you can expect in the very near future. The configuration syntax becomes much cleaner and implicit behavior was removed.
While on the way of transforming the Jolokia integration test suite from a tedious, manual, half-a-day procedure to a full automated process I ran into and felt in love with Docker. As a byproduct a java-jolokia docker repository emerged, which can be easily used as a Java base image for enabling a Jolokia JVM agent during startup for any Java application.
NSEnter is a nice way to connect to a running Docker container. This post presents a script to simplify the usage of nsenter together with Boot2Docker.
Recently I gave a Meetup talk for the Docker Munich Meetup Group which explained how Docker can help developers to improve integration tests and to ship applications.
