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.

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