Thorntail offers an paradigm to packaging and running Enterprise and MicroProfile applications by packaging them with just enough of the server runtime to “java –jar”. In this tutorial we will show two strategies to deploy a Thorntail application on Openshift

 

 

First make sure that Openshift / Minishift environment is started. Then, create a new project for your application:

oc new-project thorntail

Now let’s see how to deploy a Thorntail application in it.

Option #1 : Use Java8 Container Image

The first option consists in using the Java8 Container image as a wrapper to execute the thorntail Uber Jar file. We will need at first to import the image from Red Hat Registry:

oc import-image java:8 --from=registry.access.redhat.com/redhat-openjdk-18/openjdk18-openshift --confirm

Next, create a new application pointing to a repository which contains a Thorntail application:

oc new-app --name thorntail-java8 'java:8~https://github.com/fmarchioni/mastertheboss' --context-dir='thorntail/thorntail-rest-basic'

Finish, by exposing the Service to a Route:

oc expose svc/thorntail-java8

Option #2 : Use Fabric8 Maven plugin

The second option can be applied directly from your Thorntail project, by including the Fabric8 Maven plugin in a profile. Here’s the pom.xml of our Thorntail application:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <properties>
    <version.thorntail>2.5.0.Final</version.thorntail>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>io.thorntail</groupId>
        <artifactId>bom-all</artifactId>
        <version>${version.thorntail}</version>
        <scope>import</scope>
        <type>pom</type>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
  <groupId>com.mastertheboss.jaxrs</groupId>
  <artifactId>thorntail-rest-basic</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <name>Demo REST Service</name>
  <url>http://www.mastertheboss.com</url>

  <dependencies>

    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.thorntail</groupId>
      <artifactId>jaxrs</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>io.thorntail</groupId>
      <artifactId>cdi</artifactId>
    </dependency>

  </dependencies>

  <build>
    <finalName>demo</finalName>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>io.thorntail</groupId>
        <artifactId>thorntail-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${version.thorntail}</version>

        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>package</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>

  <profiles>

    <profile>
      <id>openshift</id>
      <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>io.fabric8</groupId>
            <artifactId>fabric8-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.5.40</version>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <goals>
                  <goal>resource</goal>
                  <goal>build</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
              <generator>
                <includes>
                  <include>thorntail-v2</include>
                </includes>
                <excludes>
                  <exclude>webapp</exclude>
                </excludes>
              </generator>
              <enricher>
                <config>
                  <thorntail-v2-health-check>
                    <path>/</path>
                  </thorntail-v2-health-check>
                </config>
              </enricher>
              <resources>
                <env>
                  <AB_OFF>true</AB_OFF>
                  <JAVA_OPTIONS>-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true</JAVA_OPTIONS>
                </env>
              </resources>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </build>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</project>

Deploy the application on Openshift as follows:

mvn fabric8:deploy -Popenshift -DskiptTests=true

And here is our application deployed on Openshift using both strategies:

Enjoy Thorntail on Openshift!

Source code for this example: https://github.com/fmarchioni/mastertheboss/tree/master/thorntail/thorntail-rest-basic