How do I attach VisualVM to a simple Java process running in a Docker container

Question

Actually I wanted a solution working for JEE containers, specifically for Glassfish, but after I tried many combinations of settings and did not succeed, I reduced the setup

Answer 1

FWIW, this is how I was able to attach VisualVM to a Java process inside a Docker container running on macOS:

Main.java:

public class Main {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        while (true) {
            System.out.print("Hello ");
            System.out.println("world");
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        }
    }
}

Dockerfile:

FROM openjdk:11.0.2-slim
COPY Main.class /
WORKDIR /
ENTRYPOINT ["java", \
"-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true", \
"-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9010", \
"-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false", \
"-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false", \
"-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false", \
"-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.rmi.port=9010", \
"-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost", \
"Main"]

Compile the Java code, build the image and run the container like this:

$ javac Main.java
$ docker build -t main .
$ docker run -p 9010:9010 -it main

Then attach VisualVM using JMX to localhost:9010