I wanted to have three docker containers that were managed as one, being spun up and torn down together. These were a postgres database, pgsql postgres admin tool, and a spring boot back end (the one from https://drumcoder.co.uk/blog/2020/apr/24/docker-spring-boot/)

docker-compose.yml

Here's the docker-compose.yml file I used:

version: "3"
services:
  todo-backend:
    image: …

I wanted to create a docker container of a spring boot application running on Java 11, and to then run that up inside docker.

That can be done with the following Dockerfile

# Build
FROM maven:3.6.0-jdk-11-slim AS build
COPY src /home/app/src
COPY pom.xml /home/app
RUN mvn -f /home/app/pom.xml clean package …

I've used Serenity BDD for testing a web application, but I did it in the context of a defined way of working. I've recently had the time to step back and try it from scratch, and this post documents how it worked.

Gherkin Syntax

Gherkin Syntax is used to define …