I can't find any example or article how can the continuous delivery pipeline look like when we are using Spring Boot + Jenkins.
In Java EE I usually do it like this:
Push changes to repository
Jenkins checks for changes every 5 minutes
if there was a change, Jenkins pulls the sources and run maven build
using wildfly maven plugin I run redeploy on server
And generally I wonder what to do in last point when I'm using Spring Boot. Application is packaged into single JAR and run in separate process so in Spring Boot there is actually no such thing like redeploy. Do I have to write some script to kill old process first and then run the new artifact? Or maybe there is something like "spring boot cli" where I could manage all running spring boot apps?
You need to kill old process and run new process as a service.
It is all very well explained here Spring Boot application as a Service.
There is nice ssh plugin for jenkins that we use : https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Publish+Over+SSH+Plugin
Copy jar to the server
Stop old service
Run new service
EDIT : Added Spring boot reference for running spring boot as a service - http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/deployment-install.html #Vaelyr
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For example,
I understand adding specific dependencies like spring-boot-starter-web that contains tomcat as transitive dependency triggers the spring framework to initialize tomcat container but I want to know if we say a spring-boot application is running, does it imply always that tomcat is also running?
I want to know if we say a spring-boot application is running, does it imply always that tomcat is also running?
No, it doesn't.
Spring boot can be used for both web applications and non-web applications.
For web applications you can use tomcat/jetty/undertow/netty for example, its up to you to chose what works for you the best.
If you don't want to run an embedded version of the web server you can opt for creating a WAR file and place it into the web server prepared in-advance.
If you don't want to run web application at all (something that is built around "Request - Response" way of work in the most broad sense) - you can create a "CommandLineRunner" - in this case you don't need to depend on neither web-mvc nor webflux. For more information about Command Line Runners read here for example
You can have an embedded server in your JAR that is able to be run on its own. By default it is Tomcat but you can change this to others, like Jetty. Additional details:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.0.6.RELEASE/reference/html/howto-embedded-web-servers.html
If you don't want to have an embedded server and you want to deploy your application you can also create WAR files instead of JAR files. Additional details:
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-no-web-server
https://spring.io/guides/gs/convert-jar-to-war/
I have a use case where I need to run atleast two or more spring boot applications on the same port.
I am able to run spring boot applications via mvn spring-boot:run -Pdev... port and other information. I have provided following configuration in spring boot projects
server.port= 8597
server.contextPath=<as per the project>
spring.config.name=<project name>
With this configuration, I successfully run two spring boot application on same port i.e. 8587.
Now, here the problem comes, when I package the project as jar for dist purposes and run the application as java -jar <profile>..... second boot project run fails with Address already in use.
I am not able to understand where I am going wrong. I even tried passing context, port and config name in vm arguments but no success.
Any help?
Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but I created a simple spring boot + spring batch job, and everytime I do a maven clean, install, the batch job runs. Not really what people are looking for, but all my jobs do the same thing.
I followed some threads and you can add a property for:
spring.batch.job.enabled=false
but when I do that the maven clean install works find, but then when you run the main boot file, it doesn't run the job either.
Starting to not like this Boot framework for Spring Batch jobs.
You have a test that is running the Boot application. The default test from https://start.spring.io will do that. Remove that test and you should be fine (unless you have any other tests that do launch your Boot application).
I know spring boot applications can be deployed to production environments as war files. But what is the typical way of deploying spring boot applications? Does it only require a jvm, not a container?
The Spring Boot Project Page states that Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run".
Means by default, the Spring Boot maven or gradle plugin builds self-contained executable jars, that contain all dependencies and an embedded webserver, e.g. tomcat or jetty. The Spring Boot Getting Started doc gives you an introduction to that. Using this approach you just need a JVM to run your application. But you can also configure it to create war files if this is a better fit to your production environment.
Does it only require a jvm, not a container?
It can run anywhere Java is setup.
Spring Boot's use of embedded containers and why Spring chose to go the container-less route. Many of their main driving forces were ease of use while testing and debugging, and being able to deploy Spring-based Java applications to the cloud, or any other environment.
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Spring boot applications if they are serving web requests do require a container. You can either deploy them as a war inside a container such as tomcat/jetty. Or you can deploy them with embedded container, tomcat.
Currently in our project, we are using Spring Integration to integrate many service and some protocol related endpoints.
The project is a multi Spring Boot applications, more than one executable jars will be deployed in production.
The question is:
How to run an end to end test which needs to run cross some of these applications, I have to run the one by one manually? In before none-Spring-Boot applications, I can use Maven tomcat7 plugin to complete this work(deploy the wars into an embedded tomcat and run it in pre-integration-test phase), now how to start up all related applications before I run my test. Assume I do not use Docker/Vagrant now.
Similar question found on stackoverflow, End to end integration test for multiple spring boot applications under Maven
How to run the end2end test automatically?
In an Spring Integration test, sometime I have to mock a http endpoint, so I wrote a simple Controller in test package to archive this purpose, but I want to run it at a different port, which make it more like an outside resource. How to run different #SpringBootApplicaiton classes at varied ports at the same time in the test for this purpose?
I am using the latest Maven, Java 8, Spring Boot 1.3.1.RELEASE.
Actually, Spring Boot comes with the embedded Servlet Container support. One of them is exactly Tomcat. The default on for the org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web.
With the org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test and its #SpringApplicationConfiguration and #WebIntegrationTest you can achieve your requirements, even with the random port.
Please, refer to the Spring Boot Reference Manual for more information:
To change the port you can add environment properties to #WebIntegrationTest as colon- or equals-separated name-value pairs, e.g. #WebIntegrationTest("server.port:9000"). Additionally you can set the server.port and management.port properties to 0 in order to run your integration tests using random ports.
With that your #SpringBootApplicaiton will be deployed to that embedded Tomcat and your test can get access to the ran services/controllers.
Note: it doesn't matter if your Spring Boot application has Spring Integration facilities. The behavior is the same: embedded Servlet Container and integration tests against #Value("${local.server.port}").