Packaging the application for local deployment

Now, let's build our application and deploy it locally. This can be done in two ways, either using Docker or by building and executing a WAR file.

Building and deploying using Docker

JHipster uses JIB (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib) to build Docker images. JIB can build and push Docker images without the need of a Docker daemon and, hence, is an ideal choice for CI environments as well. The JIB plugin is integrated with our Gradle build. The configuration that's used is defined in gradle/docker.gradle and is as follows:

jib {
    from {
        image = "adoptopenjdk:11-jre-hotspot"
    }
    to {
        image = "store:latest"
    }
    container...