Deploy war file in Payara 5 Docker container

[Alex Kemp]

I'm having trouble getting my war file to deploy on application start. I'm using Payara Server Full

According to the docs here:

The following sample Dockerfile can be used to prepare a custom Payara Server image that deploys the myapplication.war artefact at runtime:

FROM payara/server-full COPY myapplication.war $DEPLOY_DIR

And to launch the container, simply build and run the image like this:

docker build -t mycompany/myapplication:1.0 . docker run -p 8080:8080 mycompany/myapplication:1.0

But when I run the container, it doesn't try and deploy the application unless I restart the container. Am I missing something here? I'd expect the container to try and deploy the application from a fresh boot, every time, otherwise it kind of defeats the point of ephemeral containers?

Link to stack overflow where i've posted the logs:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69117678/deploy-war-file-in-payara-5-docker-container

[Rudy De Busscher]

Hi,

An issue appeared in version 5.2021.5 of the Docker Image so that applications do not deploy anymore correctly.  This is fixed within the release of this week (version 5.2021.7)

Regards

Rudy