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Chapter 3. Get Started

3.1. Initial setup
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The instructions in this guide follow on from the OpenShift Primer, assuming a supported OpenShift configuration or a non-production OpenShift instance like that described in the OpenShift Primer.

The JWS for OpenShift images are automatically created during the installation of OpenShift, along with the other default image streams and templates.

Note

The JWS for OpenShift application templates are distributed for Tomcat 9.

To run and configure the JWS for OpenShift images, use the OpenShift S2I process with the application template parameters and environment variables.

The S2I process for the JWS for OpenShift images works as follows:

  • If there is a Maven settings.xml file in the configuration/ source directory, it is moved to $HOME/.m2/ of the new image.

    See the Apache Maven Project website for more information on Maven and the Maven settings.xml file.

  • If there is a pom.xml file in the source repository, a Maven build is triggered using the contents of the $MAVEN_ARGS environment variable.

    By default, the package goal is used with the openshift profile, including the arguments for skipping tests (-DskipTests) and enabling the Red Hat GA repository (-Dcom.redhat.xpaas.repo.redhatga).

  • The results of a successful Maven build are copied to /opt/webserver/webapps/. This includes all WAR files from the source directory specified by the $ARTIFACT_DIR environment variable. The default value of $ARTIFACT_DIR is the target/ directory.

    Use the MAVEN_ARGS_APPEND environment variable to modify the Maven arguments.

  • All WAR files from the deployments/ source directory are copied to /opt/webserver/webapps/.
  • All files in the configuration/ source directory are copied to /opt/webserver/conf/ (excluding the Maven settings.xml file).

  • All files in the lib/ source directory are copied to /opt/webserver/lib/.

    Note

    If you want to use custom Tomcat configuration files, the file names should be the same as for a normal Tomcat installation. For example, context.xml and server.xml.

See the Artifact Repository Mirrors section for guidance on configuring the S2I process to use a custom Maven artifacts repository mirror.

Existing applications are deployed on OpenShift using the oc start-build command.

Prerequisite: An existing .war, .ear, or .jar of the application to deploy on JWS for OpenShift.

  1. Prepare the directory structure on the local file system.

    Create a source directory containing any content required by your application not included in the binary (if required, see Using the JWS for OpenShift Source-to-Image (S2I) process), then create a subdirectory deployments/: 

    $ mkdir -p <build_dir>/deployments
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  2. Copy the binaries (.war,.ear,.jar) to deployments/: 

    $ cp /path/to/binary/<filenames_with_extensions> <build_dir>/deployments/
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    Note

    Application archives in the deployments/ subdirectory of the source directory are copied to the $JWS_HOME/webapps/ directory of the image being built on OpenShift. For the application to deploy, the directory hierarchy containing the web application data must be structured correctly (see Section 3.2, “Using the JWS for OpenShift Source-to-Image (S2I) process”).

  3. Log in to the OpenShift instance: 

    $ oc login <url>
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  4. Create a new project if required: 

    $ oc new-project <project-name>
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  5. Identify the JWS for OpenShift image stream to use for your application with oc get is -n openshift: 

    $ oc get is -n openshift | grep ^jboss-webserver | cut -f1 -d ' '

jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift
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    Note

    The option -n openshift specifies the project to use. oc get is -n openshift retrieves (get) the image stream resources (is) from the openshift project.

  6. Create the new build configuration, specifying image stream and application name: 

    $ oc new-build --binary=true \
 --image-stream=jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift \
 --name=<my-jws-on-openshift-app>
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  7. Instruct OpenShift to use the source directory created previously for binary input of the OpenShift image build: 

    $ oc start-build <my-jws-on-openshift-app> --from-dir=./<build_dir> --follow
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  8. Create a new OpenShift application based on the image: 

    $ oc new-app <my-jws-on-openshift-app>
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  9. Expose the service to make the application accessible to users: 

    # to check the name of the service to expose
$ oc get svc -o name

service/<my-jws-on-openshift-app>

# to expose the service
$ oc expose svc/my-jws-on-openshift-app

route "my-jws-on-openshift-app" exposed
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  10. Retrieve the address of the exposed route: 

    oc get routes --no-headers -o custom-columns='host:spec.host' my-jws-on-openshift-app
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  11. To access the application in your browser: http://<address_of_exposed_route> / <my-war-ear-jar-filename-without-extension>

The example below uses the tomcat-websocket-chat quickstart using the procedure from Section 3.2.1, “Create a JWS for OpenShift application using existing maven binaries”.

3.2.2.1. Prerequisites:
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  1. Get the WAR application archive or build the application locally.

    • Clone the source code: 

      $ git clone https://github.com/jboss-openshift/openshift-quickstarts.git
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    • Configure the Red Hat JBoss Middleware Maven Repository

    • Build the application: 

      $ cd openshift-quickstarts/tomcat-websocket-chat/
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      $ mvn clean package

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Tomcat websocket example 1.2.0.Final
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 01:28 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-01-16T15:59:16+10:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 19M/271M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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  1. Prepare the directory structure on the local file system.

    Create the source directory for the binary build on your local file system and the deployments/ subdirectory. Copy the WAR archive to deployments/: 

    [tomcat-websocket-chat]$ ls

pom.xml  README.md  src/  target/
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    $ mkdir -p ocp/deployments
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    $ cp target/websocket-chat.war ocp/deployments/
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  1. Log in to the OpenShift instance: 

    $ oc login <url>
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  2. Create a new project if required: 

    $ oc new-project jws-bin-demo
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  3. Identify the JWS for OpenShift image stream to use for your application with oc get is -n openshift: 

    $ oc get is -n openshift | grep ^jboss-webserver | cut -f1 -d ' '

jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift
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  4. Create new build configuration, specifying image stream and application name: 

    $ oc new-build --binary=true \
 --image-stream=jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift \
 --name=jws-wsch-app

--> Found image 8c3b85b (4 weeks old) in image stream "openshift/jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift" under tag "latest" for "jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift"

    JBoss Web Server 5.0
    --------------------
    Platform for building and running web applications on JBoss Web Server 5.0 - Tomcat v9

    Tags: builder, java, tomcat9

    * A source build using binary input will be created
      * The resulting image will be pushed to image stream "jws-wsch-app:latest"
      * A binary build was created, use 'start-build --from-dir' to trigger a new build

--> Creating resources with label build=jws-wsch-app ...
    imagestream "jws-wsch-app" created
    buildconfig "jws-wsch-app" created
--> Success
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  5. Start the binary build. Instruct OpenShift to use source directory for the binary input for the OpenShift image build: 

    $ oc start-build jws-wsch-app --from-dir=./ocp --follow

Uploading directory "ocp" as binary input for the build ...
build "jws-wsch-app-1" started
Receiving source from STDIN as archive ...

Copying all deployments war artifacts from /home/jboss/source/deployments directory into /opt/webserver/webapps for later deployment...
'/home/jboss/source/deployments/websocket-chat.war' -> '/opt/webserver/webapps/websocket-chat.war'


Pushing image 172.30.202.111:5000/jws-bin-demo/jws-wsch-app:latest ...
Pushed 0/7 layers, 7% complete
Pushed 1/7 layers, 14% complete
Pushed 2/7 layers, 29% complete
Pushed 3/7 layers, 49% complete
Pushed 4/7 layers, 62% complete
Pushed 5/7 layers, 92% complete
Pushed 6/7 layers, 100% complete
Pushed 7/7 layers, 100% complete
Push successful
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  6. Create a new OpenShift application based on the image: 

    $ oc new-app jws-wsch-app

--> Found image e5f3a6b (About a minute old) in image stream "jws-bin-demo/jws-wsch-app" under tag "latest" for "jws-wsch-app"

    JBoss Web Server 5.0
    --------------------
    Platform for building and running web applications on JBoss Web Server 5.0 - Tomcat v9

    Tags: builder, java, tomcat9

    * This image will be deployed in deployment config "jws-wsch-app"
    * Ports 8080/tcp, 8443/tcp, 8778/tcp will be load balanced by service "jws-wsch-app"
      * Other containers can access this service through the hostname "jws-wsch-app"

--> Creating resources ...
    deploymentconfig "jws-wsch-app" created
    service "jws-wsch-app" created
--> Success
    Application is not exposed. You can expose services to the outside world by executing one or more of the commands below:
     'oc expose svc/jws-wsch-app'
    Run 'oc status' to view your app.
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  7. Expose the service to make the application accessible to users: 

    # to check the name of the service to expose
$ oc get svc -o name

service/jws-wsch-app

# to expose the service
$ oc expose svc/jws-wsch-app

route "jws-wsch-app" exposed
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  8. Retrieve the address of the exposed route: 

    oc get routes --no-headers -o custom-columns='host:spec.host' jws-wsch-app
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  9. Access the application in your browser: http://<address_of_exposed_route>/websocket-chat

For detailed instructions on creating new OpenShift applications from source code, see OpenShift.com - Creating an application from source code.

Note

Before proceeding, ensure that the applications' data is structured correctly (see Section 3.2, “Using the JWS for OpenShift Source-to-Image (S2I) process”).

  1. Log in to the OpenShift instance: 

    $ oc login <url>
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  2. Create a new project if required: 

    $ oc new-project <project-name>
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  3. Identify the JWS for OpenShift image stream to use for your application with oc get is -n openshift: 

    $ oc get is -n openshift | grep ^jboss-webserver | cut -f1 -d ' '

jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift
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  4. Create the new OpenShift application from source code using Red Hat JBoss Web Server for OpenShift images, use the --image-stream option: 

    $ oc new-app \
 <source_code_location> \
 --image-stream=jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift \
 --name=<openshift_application_name>
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    For Example: 

    $ oc new-app \
 https://github.com/jboss-openshift/openshift-quickstarts.git#master \
 --image-stream=jboss-webserver50-tomcat9-openshift \
 --context-dir='tomcat-websocket-chat' \
 --name=jws-wsch-app
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    The source code is added to the image and the source code is compiled. The build configuration and services are also created.

  5. To expose the application: 

    # to check the name of the service to expose
$ oc get svc -o name

service/<openshift_application_name>

# to expose the service
$ oc expose svc/<openshift_application_name>

route "<openshift_application_name>" exposed
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  6. To retrieve the address of the exposed route: 

    oc get routes --no-headers -o custom-columns='host:spec.host' <openshift_application_name>
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  7. To access the application in your browser: http://<address_of_exposed_route>/<java_application_name>
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