Working with Docker Container Configurations

InstallAnywhere 2021

In some scenarios, you may need to generate multiple Docker containers for the same application, each with a slightly different configuration. For example, for a particular application, you may want to create different containers, each for a separate industry that your product serves.

One way you could do this would be to create multiple InstallAnywhere projects, each with different settings. However, a much more efficient way of accomplishing this is to define different container configurations in the same project in InstallAnywhere. Doing so enables you to build various containers from the same InstallAnywhere project, and to be able to customize your offering of containers according to your customer segments.

Every InstallAnywhere project can have multiple container configurations, each representing how the container will be built for a particular target configuration. To create and modify container configurations, use the Build Containers view on the Build page of the Advanced Designer. The Docker Configuration area in this view is where you can add, rename, copy, or delete a container configuration. This section of the documentation explains how.