# Build and push your application in a container image

The `image` goal allows you to build an application image that contains a server and your application. This application image contains your application ready to run on the cloud in a containerized platform such as Kubernetes.

The operations related to the image are executing using a Docker binary. This can be explicitly set with the `<image><docker-binary>` element. It can also be overridden with the `wildfly.image.binary` property. If no binary is defined in the configuration, an attempt will be made to determine a default binary. First `docker` is attempted to be resolved. If it cannot be resolved, then `podman` is attempted. If neither can be resolved an error will occur.

By default, the `image` goal will only build the application image. To push it to a container registry, you must configure the `<image><push>` element with to `true`.

## Build an application image

The example below shows how to build an application image.

    <project>
        <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
        ...
        <build>
            ...
            <plugins>
                ...
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>4.2.2.Final</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <feature-packs>
                            <feature-pack>
                                <!-- Latest released version -->
                                <location>wildfly@maven(org.jboss.universe:community-universe)</location>
                            </feature-pack>
                        </feature-packs>
                        <layers>
                            <!-- Galleon layer allows to trim the installed server to your needs. The 'jaxrs-server'
                            contains the server content required to execute JAXRS applications -->
                            <layer>jaxrs-server</layer>
                        </layers>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>image</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
                ...
            </plugins>
            ...
        </build>
    ...
    </project>

Once `mvn package` is executed, a container image is available in with the docker binary with the name `my-app:latest`. The name of the image is based on the `<artifactId>` value of the Maven module.

You can then run the image locally using Docker:

    docker run -p 8080:8080 my-app:latest

## Push an application image to a container registry.

The example below shows how to configure the `image` goal to push the applicaition image to a container registry:

    <project>
        <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
        ...
        <build>
            ...
            <plugins>
                ...
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>4.2.2.Final</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <feature-packs>
                            <feature-pack>
                                <location>wildfly@maven(org.jboss.universe:community-universe)</location>
                            </feature-pack>
                        </feature-packs>
                        <layers>
                            <layer>jaxrs-server</layer>
                        </layers>
                        <image>
                            <push>true</push>
                            <registry>quay.io</registry>
                            <group>${user.name}</group>
                            <user>${user.name}</user>
                            <password>${my.secret.password}</password>
                        </image>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>image</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
                ...
            </plugins>
            ...
        </build>
    ...
    </project>

When `mvn package` is executed, the `image` goal will build the image with the name `quay.io/jdoe/my-app` (`jdoe` being the name of the user running the Maven commands). Before the image is pushed, it will login to `quay.io` using the credentials specified by `<image><user>` and `<image><password>`. As it is not recommended to store credentials in clear in the `pom.xml`, we use a System propery (`my.secret.password`) to pass it when Maven is executed (with `mvn package -Dmy.secret.password=“********”).

## Configure the JDK version used by the application image.

The application image is based on a runtime image provided by WildFly that contains all the runtimes required to run WildFly and your application.Push an application image to a container registry. At the moment, WildFly provides runtime images for OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17.

By default, the `image` goal uses the OpenJDK 11 runtime image. It is possible to use the OpenJDK 17 image instead by configuring the `<image><jdk-version>` to `17` as shown in the example below:

    <project>
        <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
        ...
        <build>
            ...
            <plugins>
                ...
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>4.2.2.Final</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <feature-packs>
                            <feature-pack>
                                <location>wildfly@maven(org.jboss.universe:community-universe)</location>
                            </feature-pack>
                        </feature-packs>
                        <layers>
                            <layer>jaxrs-server</layer>
                        </layers>
                        <image>
                            <jdk-version>17</jdk-version>
                        </image>
                    </configuration>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>image</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
                ...
            </plugins>
            ...
        </build>
    ...
    </project>