Docker for Your Java Developent Environment with IntelliJ

This is here to support the Blog Post http://mvpjava.com/docker-java-development-environment-intellij and the You Tube Tutorial https://youtu.be/HUj1RbwYXVQ

Note: Only works if your running Docker on a Linux host/VM

This is meant for Java Developers who want to run their IntelliJ IDEA in a Docker Container.

This image will take the current $USER on the host machine into account so that you may have access to all IntelliJ directories in the container (*not as root user).

Also, the bind mount volumes are binded on host to allow the state of IntelliJ to be preserved across re-runs. So IntelliJ plugins and preferences are preserved as well as maven $HOME/.m2 directory so you don't have to keep downloading the same artifacts.

You can share your source code with the IntelliJ. Just place you source code in (default location) .. ${HOME}/IdeaIC2020.3/IdeaProjects

How to start Docker Container

You must execute the ./run.sh script which handles all of this ...

$ git clone https://github.com/mvpjava/intelliJ-ce-idea.git
$ cd intelliJ-ce-idea
$ chmod 754 ./run.sh
$ ./run.sh

Base Directory

You do not have to venture off in the base directory uness you want to customize things
It is there as a reference. The build can be found on DockerHub (see below)