Packaging the application for local deployment

Now let's build our application and deploy it locally. This can be done in two ways, either using Docker or by building and executing a WAR file.

Building and deploying using Docker

Let's use a Gradle task to build our docker image.

Note

Use the ./gradlew tasks command to list all available tasks.

1. In your Terminal, go to the project root folder and execute; ./gradlew bootRepackage -Pprod buildDocker:
   • bootRepackage: Builds an executable archive (WAR) file for the application
   • -Pprod: Specifies the profile to use
   • buildDocker: Builds a docker image based on the Dockerfile present in the src/main/dockerfolder

Note

If you are using JHipster Version 5 or above, usebootWarinstead of thebootRepackagecommand in Gradle.

2. Once the task is completed successfully, we can deploy our app by running:

> docker-compose -f src/main/docker/app.yml up

This will also start the MySQL DB if you haven't started it already. If you already have it running from the previous step...