appfarm is a tool that lets DevOps teams to manage Java microservice applications spread over multiple hosts(nodes), easily.

It is quite similar to catfarm project except:

• it supports microservice applications that do not need application server (e.g. Tomcat).
• it is created for Springboot and Dropwizard applications and can easily be customized for the other frameworks.
• it provides Ant task to create domain (create-domain). That is, you no longer need to create node package(node.zip) and install it to all the hosts that the application will run, manually.

Quick Start

• Install supported JDK (HotSpot, IBM or OpenJDK)

• Clone appfarm project: git clone https://github.com/kumlali/appfarm

• Follow the CUSTOMIZE: ... directives in build.xml and update them according to your environment.

• Create/update each domain's property file under properties directory. You must have a property file for each domain. (e.g. dev.properties, test.properties, qa.properties, prod.properties, etc.)

• Make sure you have key based ssh access from host that runs Ant script to the hosts the application to run.

• Create domain:

  ant -Ddomain=dev create-domain
  

• Package, deploy and run your application:

  ant -Ddomain=dev -Dversion=myapp-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT create-packs-and-deploy-ha
  

Usage

It is almost the same as the catfarm's usage.

Credits

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