Exercise 1: Deploy a Java application with a Docker Image

In this exercise, you'll deploy a simple Java microservice - "Authors" from a public image registry to OpenShift. You can find the image on Docker Hub here: https://hub.docker.com/r/nheidloff/authors

Deploy Authors application

Access your cluster on the IBM Cloud clusters dashboard. Click the OpenShift web console button on the top-right. (This is a pop-up so you'll need to white list this site.)

Create a project, you can title it whatever you like, we suggest "example-authors."

Create Project

Click on your new project. You should see a view that looks like the image below. Click on the Deploy Image button on the main screen, or click on the Add to Project button and choose Deploy Image from there.

Click 'Deploy Image'

At the pop up, choose the Image Name option. Enter nheidloff/authors:v1 as the image name and click the search icon. Once the image metadata loads click the Deploy button.

Add image name

At the application overview page, click the Create Route option. This will give our application an external URL.

Create a route

The default options are sufficient, scroll down to the bottom and click the Create button.

Click Create

Try to launch the application by copying the route's URL and appending /openapi/ui.

Copy the URL

Add /openapi/ui to the URL!

The Open API user interface for our Authors service will load. We can test the application by clicking the GET /v1/getauthor API. Choose the Try it out button and entering "Niklas Heidloff" as the query.

Open the Open API UI

Congratulations! You just deployed an image from a public registry aviable from Docker Hub.