Running with Maven

The plugin provides two Maven goals related to starting and stopping containers. This will be docker:start and docker:stop. Containers are created and started with the docker:start and stopped and destroyed with the docker:stop. If you need to run the container during the integration tests, the typical use case will be to include those goals in Maven build phases: the docker:start will be bound to the pre-integration-test and docker:stop to the post-integration-test phase.

Plugin configuration

The plugin uses the configuration from the <run> sub-element of the <configuration> in the pom.xml file. The list of the most important configuration elements is as follows:

cmd	Command which should be executed at the end of the container's startup. If not given, the image's default command is used.
entrypoint	Entry point for the container.
log	Log configuration for whether and how log messages from the running containers should be printed. This can also configure the log driver...