Testing the Service and Client Applications Locally in a Docker Setup

Prerequisites

Docker must be installed on your machine.
Access to a local Consul server.

Procedure

Execute the following command on a Docker terminal to run the service application image:

docker run -e CONSUL_SERVER_URL=consul-server-url  
-e DOCKER_LOCAL_HOST_IP=Docker-machine-ip  
-e DOCKER_LOCAL_HOST_PORT=Docker-machine-port -p 18086:8080 
-e SERVICE_NAME=BWCE-HELLOWORLD-SERVICE bwce-servicediscovery.service-app

Note: DOCKER_LOCAL_HOST_IP: While registering service, the variable value becomes the value for IP address configured with consul service.

Note: DOCKER_LOCAL_HOST_PORT: While registering service, the variable value becomes the value for PORT configured with consul service

Execute the following command on a Docker terminal to run the service application image:

docker run -e CONSUL_SERVER_URL=consul-server-url  
-p 18087:8080 
-e SERVICE_NAME=BWCE-HELLOWORLD-SERVICE bwce-servicediscovery.client.app

Execute the following command to view the logs to make sure that the application has started successfully.
```
docker logs <container name>
```
Check the logs for the service and client applications to make sure they have started successfully.
Get the IP address for the Docker machine.
Access the following URL from a browser:
```
http://<docker-machine-ip>:18087
```

Result

The following output should be seen in the browser:

Hello from TIBCO"

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