Spring Boot microservices and dockerizing

 Creating Spring Boot microservices and dockerizing them to run as containers is a multi-step process. I'll provide you with an overview of the steps, and you can follow along to create the microservices and dockerize them.

**Step 1: Set Up the Microservices**
1. Create your Spring Boot microservices using Spring Initializr or your preferred IDE.

2. Build two separate microservices, each serving different functionalities or endpoints.

3. Ensure that your microservices have different endpoints and ports to avoid conflicts when running them in containers.

**Step 2: Dockerize the Microservices**
1. Create a `Dockerfile` for each microservice. The `Dockerfile` describes how the container image should be built.

Here's a simple example `Dockerfile` for a Spring Boot application:

```Dockerfile
# Use an OpenJDK base image
FROM openjdk:11-jdk-slim

# Set the working directory inside the container
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the JAR file into the container
COPY target/your-microservice.jar app.jar

# Expose the port the Spring Boot app is running on
EXPOSE 8080

# Start the Spring Boot application
CMD ["java", "-jar", "app.jar"]
```

2. Build the Docker images for each microservice using the `docker build` command:

```bash
docker build -t your-microservice-image-name:tag path/to/Dockerfile
```

Replace `your-microservice-image-name` with a suitable name for the image and `tag` with a version or label for the image.

3. Once the Docker images are built, you can run the microservices in separate containers using the `docker run` command:

```bash
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 your-microservice-image-name:tag
```

Ensure that you use different host ports (e.g., `-p 8080:8080` and `-p 8081:8080`) for each microservice to avoid port conflicts.

**Step 3: Configure Endpoints in Docker to Access Microservices**
1. By default, the containers will run in an isolated network. To enable communication between containers, you can create a Docker network and attach the containers to that network:

```bash
docker network create your-network-name
docker run -d --network=your-network-name -p 8080:8080 your-microservice-image-name:tag
docker run -d --network=your-network-name -p 8081:8080 your-other-microservice-image-name:tag
```

Replace `your-network-name` with a suitable name for the Docker network.

2. Now, the microservices can communicate with each other using the container names as the hostname (Docker automatically resolves the container names to their IP addresses):

For example, if one microservice wants to call the other microservice's endpoint, it can use a URL like: `http://container-name-of-second-microservice:8080/endpoint`.

That's it! Now you have two Spring Boot microservices dockerized and running as separate containers, and they can communicate with each other using Docker networking.

Keep in mind that this is a basic setup to get started. For production use, you may want to consider additional aspects, such as container orchestration using Kubernetes or Docker Compose, proper network security configurations, and more robust container management practices.