Chapter 3. Deploying Quarkus Java applications to OpenShift

Procedure

1. Change to the directory that contains your Quarkus project.

2. Configure the following properties in your application.properties file:

   1. Set the Docker build strategy:

      quarkus.openshift.build-strategy=docker

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   2. (Optional) If you are using an untrusted certificate, configure the KubernetesClient:

      quarkus.kubernetes-client.trust-certs=true

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   3. (Optional) Expose the service to create an OpenShift route:

      quarkus.openshift.expose=true

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   4. (Optional) Set the path to your custom Dockerfile:

      quarkus.openshift.jvm-dockerfile=<path_to_your_dockerfile>

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      The following example shows the path to the Dockerfile.custom-jvm:

      quarkus.openshift.jvm-dockerfile=src/main/resources/Dockerfile.custom-jvm

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3. Package and deploy your Quarkus application to the current OpenShift project:

   ./mvnw clean package -Dquarkus.kubernetes.deploy=true

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Verification

1. View a list of pods associated with your current OpenShift project:

   oc get pods

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2. To retrieve the log output for your application’s pod, enter the following command where <pod_name> is the name of the latest pod prefixed with the name of your application:

   oc logs -f <pod_name>

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