spring-boot/spring-boot-integration-tests/spring-boot-launch-script-tests

= Spring Boot Launch Script Tests

This module contains integration tests for the default launch script that is used
to make a jar file fully executable on Linux. The tests use Docker to verify the
functionality in a variety of Linux distributions.

== Setting up Docker

The setup that's required varies depending on your operating system.

=== Docker on OS X

The latest version of Docker runs as a native Mac application but isn't supported by
docker-java. This means that you should use Docker Toolbox. See the
https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/mac/[OS X installation instructions] for
details.

=== Docker on Linux

Install Docker as appropriate for your Linux distribution. See the
https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/[Linux installation instructions] for more
information.

Next, add your user to the `docker` group. For example:

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$ sudo usermod -a -G docker awilkinson
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You may need to log out and back in again for this change to take affect and for your
user to be able to connect to the daemon.

== Preparing to run the tests

Before running the tests, you must prepare your environment according to your operating
system.

=== Preparation on OS X

The tests must be run in an environment where various environment variables including
`DOCKER_HOST` and `DOCKER_CERT_PATH` have been set:

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$ eval $(docker-machine env default)
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=== Preparation on Linux

Docker Daemon's default configuration on Linux uses a Unix socket for communication.
However, Docker's Java client uses HTTP by default. Docker Java's client can be configured
to use the Unix socket via the `DOCKER_URL` environment variable:

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$ export DOCKER_URL=unix:///var/run/docker.sock
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== Running the tests

You're now ready to run the tests. Assuming that you're in the same directory as this
README, the tests can be launched as follows:

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$ mvn -Pdocker clean verify
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The first time the tests are run, Docker will create the container images that are used to
run the tests. This can take several minutes, particularly if you have a slow network
connection. Subsequent runs will be faster as the images are cached locally. You can run
`docker images` to see a list of the cached images. Images created by these tests will be
tagged with `spring-boot-it` prefix to easily distinguish them.

== Cleaning up

If you want to reclaim the disk space used by the cached images (at the expense of having
to wait for them to be downloaded and rebuilt the next time you run the tests), you can
use `docker images` to list the images and `docker rmi <image>` to delete them (look for
`spring-boot-it` tag). See `docker rmi --help` for further details.