Building Dockers with microservices

Now that we have more understanding of how to use Docker, it is time to start creating our images. First, we will create a simple microservice that we will use for this section. Then we will get familiar with the Docker building process, and finally, we will create and run our microservice within a Docker.

Creating an example microservice

In order to create our microservice, we will use Spring Initializr, as we have been doing in previous chapters.

We can start by visiting the URL: https://start.spring.io/:

Spring Initializr

We have chosen to create a Maven Project using Kotlin and Spring Boot 2.0.0 M7, and we've chosen the Group to be com.microservices and Artifact chapter07. For...