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+# Alpine Linux with OpenJDK JRE
+FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
+
+EXPOSE 8181
+
+# copy jar into image
+COPY target/spring-petclinic-2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar /usr/bin/spring-petclinic.jar
+
+# run application with this command line 
+ENTRYPOINT ["java","-jar","/usr/bin/spring-petclinic.jar","--server.port=8181"]