Anyone who used docker before and care about quality will have to deal with the logs problem. As we all know, docker runs in a container, and if we don’t handle the logs in a special way, the logs will be lost when the container is restarted. In order to deal with this, usually we will map the logs folder of our application to the parent host of the container, so that the logs don’t get lost when the container is restarted or changed.

So after a few dist-upgrades, docker is not running anymore in my debian Jessie. A quick run of sudo service docker status shows me: ● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2015-09-02 00:03:18 CEST; 8min ago Docs: https://docs.docker.com Process: 22770 ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker -d -H fd:// $DOCKER_OPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 22770 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Sep 02 00:03:18 rowanto-mdeb systemd[1]: Started Docker Application Container Engine.

So lately, a lot of people in my circle is talking about why java application server is dead. The reason why is explained in the slides here. Basically what I get is that because nowdays people only deploy one artifact in one application server, it beats the point of the application server. It’s more like that the application server is already part of the application. So, it would be better to treat the application server as part of the application and ship them together as a package.