Unable to access Container url in Bluemix for Spring Boot Application

Question

I am using Toolchain in IBM Bluemix for deploying an Simple Spring boot application. In Delivery pipeline I have added 3 stages:

Stage-1(Maven Build)

Fetching source code from git repo and building with Maven to build jar file

Stage-2(Building Docker Image)

In this stage it is reading from a Dockerfile in source code and building a Docker image. In this stage Builder Type is "IBM Container Service".

Stage-3(Container Deploy)

In this stage I am deploying the image in Container in Bluemix. Here Deployer Type is "IBM Container Service".

After all stages are completed successfully I hit the container ip provided in deploy stage but it gives an error

A communication error occurred: "Connection refused" The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

I have checked the container status with bx ic inspect some-container-name it shows container status running.

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

This sounds like a problem with the application. You can investigate by either doing bx ic logs some-container-name or by connecting to the running container by doing bx ic exec -it some-container-name /bin/bash

Edit: You should also make sure you are specifying the correct port in the Container Deploy stage and when trying to connect to the IP address.