Rebuilding single services in docker-compose

Note to self: a single service ("container") out of a docker-compose.yaml file is rebuilt and restarted like this: docker-compose create container_name While this complains about deprecations, there is another way. Let's say we want to re-create a container called "web" belonging to a composition: # stop container docker-compose stop web # optionally destroy container. … Continue reading Rebuilding single services in docker-compose →

Tomcat starts slowly in docker container

Just a little reminder to self: when running Tomcat with Java 8 in an Ubuntu Docker container, Tomcat will take a very long time (minutes!) to start with even the simplest web application. The issue is actually documented (not entirely Docker-related). The solution is to modify JAVA_OPTS to use a different random device: JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom