Debugging Dapr Apps running in Docker Compose

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The goal of this article is to demonstrate a way to debug one or more daprised applications (via your IDE, locally) while remaining integrated with the other applications that have deployed in the docker compose environment.

Let’s take the minimal example of a docker compose file which contains just two services :

nodeapp - your app
nodeapp-dapr - the dapr sidecar process to your nodeapp service

compose.yml

services:
 nodeapp:
 build: ./node
 ports:
 - "50001:50001"
 networks:
 - hello-dapr
 nodeapp-dapr:
 image: "daprio/daprd:edge"
 command: [
 "./daprd",
 "--app-id", "nodeapp",
 "--app-port", "3000",
 "--resources-path", "./components"
 ]
 volumes:
 - "./components/:/components"
 depends_on:
 - nodeapp
 network_mode: "service:nodeapp"
networks:
 hello-dapr

When you run this docker file with docker compose -f compose.yml up this will deploy to Docker and run as normal.

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Debugging Dapr Apps running in Docker Compose

compose.yml