diff --git a/guest/spring-boot-app/WebContent/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF b/guest/spring-boot-app/WebContent/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
index 254272e1c0..e3c07ab38a 100644
--- a/guest/spring-boot-app/WebContent/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
+++ b/guest/spring-boot-app/WebContent/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 Manifest-Version: 1.0
 Class-Path: 
-
diff --git a/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/Dockerfile b/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..211e8927a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Alpine Linux with OpenJDK JRE
+FROM openjdk:8-jre-alpine
+RUN apk add --no-cache bash
+
+# copy fat WAR
+COPY spring-boot-app-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war /app.war
+
+# copy fat WAR
+COPY logback.xml /logback.xml
+
+COPY run.sh /run.sh
+
+# runs application
+#CMD ["/usr/bin/java", "-jar", "-Dspring.profiles.active=default", "-Dlogging.config=/logback.xml", "/app.war"]
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/run.sh"]
diff --git a/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/logback.xml b/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e03ddc827
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+    <include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/>
+    <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.FileAppender">
+        <file>/var/log/Application/application.log</file>
+        <append>true</append>
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>%-7d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss:SSS} %m%n</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <appender-ref ref="FILE" />
+    </root>
+</configuration>
diff --git a/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/run.sh b/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..aeecc29371
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guest/spring-boot-app/docker/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+java -Dspring.profiles.active=$1 -Dlogging.config=/logback.xml -jar /app.war
+
diff --git a/guest/spring-boot-app/pom.xml b/guest/spring-boot-app/pom.xml
index ba57bbd5c5..c02eef7ef3 100644
--- a/guest/spring-boot-app/pom.xml
+++ b/guest/spring-boot-app/pom.xml
@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@
                     <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>repackage</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <mainClass>com.stackify.Application</mainClass>
+                            <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/docker</outputDirectory>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
         </plugins>
     </build>
 
@@ -58,4 +74,4 @@
         <tomcat.version>8.0.43</tomcat.version>
     </properties>
 
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>
diff --git a/spring-boot-ops/pom.xml b/spring-boot-ops/pom.xml
index b34fef8e6f..dce826dbb5 100644
--- a/spring-boot-ops/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-ops/pom.xml
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@
 						</goals>
 						<configuration>
 							<mainClass>com.baeldung.webjar.WebjarsdemoApplication</mainClass>
-							<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/docker</outputDirectory>
 						</configuration>
 					</execution>
 				</executions>