Deploy with Docker

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Section on Containerization - Docker for Clojure apps

• images available for Clojure (CLI & Leiningen)
• image optimisation - cache and build images
• build application for the image
• security
  • avoid running as root (images may have non-root user already)
  • check for security vulnerabilities (snyk)

8 docker practices - video
https://youtu.be/8vXoMqWgbQQ

https://deangerber.com/blog/2018/10/07/host-simple-clojure-http-endpoint-using-docker/

Libraries
https://github.com/into-docker/clj-docker-client
An idiomatic, data-driven, REPL friendly Clojure Docker client inspired from Cognitect's AWS client.

https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api
aws-api is a Clojure library which provides programmatic access to AWS services from your Clojure program.

Related Content

• https://practical.li/blog/posts/build-and-run-clojure-with-multistage-dockerfile/
• https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-app-template/blob/main/Dockerfile

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Related: https://practical.li/engineering-playbook/continuous-integration/docker/clojure-multi-stage-dockerfile/