Genesis containerisation - running a container

If you haven’t already initialised the database, you can run the Docker container passing the environment variable GENESIS_DB_INSTALL=true. This triggers a remap to create all the tables and will exit on completion.

docker run -e GENESIS_DB_INSTALL=true genesis/appname:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

You can then start the Docker container with whichever system you choose to use (e.g. docker-compose / Kubernetes etc.) Or simply run the container on its own:

docker run -it -p 443:443 genesis/appname:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Note: The -p flag is used in this example, as nginx is bundled in with our image and presents the Genesis app on port 443.