Flogo apps are ultralight so building docker images is not only really easy, because it can embed all dependencies it can also run inside of super small docker containers.
This demo makes use of the Flogo CLI. If you don’t have that one running yet, please check out Getting Started with the Flogo CLI
Out of the box, Flogo has the option to build a docker container from the app.
flogo build -e -docker <trigger id>
The above command will build a Flogo app, with embedded configuration (-e), and create a docker image where it can expose the PORT based on which trigger ID you specify. If you don’t want to expose a port (for example, because you start with a timer) you can specify no-trigger as the trigger id.
The docker file it generates and uses to build the docker image is:
# Dockerfile for {{.name}}
# VERSION {{.version}}
FROM alpine
RUN apk update && apk add ca-certificates
ADD {{.name}}-linux-amd64 .
EXPOSE {{.port}}
CMD ./{{.name}}-linux-amd64`
After building the image you can run the container using the docker run command
While practical, you don’t have to rely on flogo to generate the docker image for you. If you prefer to construct the Dockerfile yourself, that is perfectly okay too. The flogo cli simply wraps the command:
docker build . -t <app name>:<app version>