Running Spring Tool Suite and other GUI applications from Docker containers

Running an application within a Docker container helps in isolating the application from the host OS. Running GUI applications like for example an IDE from a Docker container, can be challenging. I'll explain several of the issues you might encounter and how to solve them. For this I will use Spring Tool Suite as an example. The code (Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml) can also be found here. Due to (several) security concerns, this is not recommended in a production environment.

Getting started with Spring Boot microservices. Why and how.

In order to quickly develop microservices, Spring Boot is a common choice. Why should I be interested in Spring Boot? In this blog post I'll give you some reasons why looking at Spring Boot is interesting and give some samples on how to get started quickly. I'll shortly talk about microservices, move on to Spring Boot and end with Application Container Cloud Service which is an ideal platform to run and manage your Spring Boot applications on. This blog touches many subjects but they fit together nicely. You can view the code of my sample Spring Boot project here. Most of the Spring Boot knowledge has been gained by the following free course by Java Brains.