Best method to deploy a war using rundeck

[Justin Frost]

Hi all,

Iam new to rundeck. I have setup a CI process using bamboo and a nexus repo.

I understand there is a nexus plugin for rundeck.

What does everyone find to be the best method to deploy wars to tomcat from nexus ?

[Luuk van den Broek]

Hi Justin,

There many different ways to deploy a war and it depends a lot on your configuration.

One of the simplest ways is to do a POST to the tomcat manager app for the deployment.
You could use the built in Bamboo tasks for this, bypassing nexus and rundeck.
Or you can write a simple script which downloads the war on server and moves it to the webapps folder relying on autodeploy in tomcat config.

I often deploy multiple wars, which tend to overload the server if they are deployed serially through the manager app, so I wrote a simple script
which stops tomcat, moves wars from nexus into webapps folder, starts tomcat and tails the output log for successful startup.
This is started trough a Rundeck task in a bamboo deployment project.  

On the Bamboo side there are a few gotchas.

Firstly I think the nexus plugin is no longer maintained and it did give me some problems. 

I use the maven task to execute nexus-maven-plugin goals.
Secondly the bamboo rundeck plugin hasn't been updated in a long time and won't work with bamboo 5.x.
I forked the plugin and made the minimal adjustments to make it work here: https://github.com/tadukurow/bamboo-rundeck-plugin
Another fork which I haven't checked out is: https://github.com/leftathome/bamboo-rundeck-plugin
If you plan on using my fork remember to update your bamboo dom4j lib to 1.6.1. 




Op woensdag 6 augustus 2014 22:07:29 UTC+9 schreef Justin Frost: