Scenario

So here’s the deal. You have a Java application working fine in your local environemnt but whenever it get launched in a container, it crashes. So now you want to debug the app running in the container.

Requirements

• IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3.2 (Community Edition)
• Docker

Now in the IntelliJ run configurations add remote

Let’s run the app in question with following flags:

docker run --rm -it -p 5005:5005 -e JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=*:5005,server=y,suspend=n" my-image:0.0.1

That’s it! Oh and don’t forget to run IntelliJ debug with the above configuration