{"id":1973,"date":"2021-05-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/introduction-to-dockerfile-with-spring-boot-how-to-dockerize-springboot-app\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T03:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:25:30","slug":"introduction-to-dockerfile-with-spring-boot-how-to-dockerize-springboot-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/introduction-to-dockerfile-with-spring-boot-how-to-dockerize-springboot-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Dockerfile with Spring Boot \u2013 How to Dockerize SpringBoot App"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this tutorial, you will learn step by step how to Dockerize your Spring Boot application. We would create a Docker container of a Spring Boot application and run it on Docker.<\/p>\n

In this tutorial, we’ll work without a database. However, in the next part, we’ll see how to incorporate a MySQL database.<\/p>\n

Why do you need to Dockerize?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is simply to ensure that your application can easily be distributed and run anywhere without configuration. So when you dockerize, then you pack your application into an image(kind of OS) can be just start and run.<\/p>\n

Since this is a practical tutorial, let’s just get started.<\/p>\n

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  1. Build the Spring Boot Application<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Dockerize and Run it<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Using Buidpacks without Dockerfile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Build a SpringBoot Application<\/strong><\/h5>\n

    For this application, I have used IntelliJ with Spring Initializer. Only two dependencies are added:<\/p>\n