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Deploy RHEL 8.4 VMs on Azure with IBM WebSphere Application Server ND Traditional V9.0.5 cluster and IBM HTTP Server V9.0 pre-installed

Prerequisites

1. Register an Azure subscription.
2. The virtual machine offer which includes the image of RHEL 8.4 with IBM WebSphere and JDK pre-installed is used as image reference to deploy virtual machine on Azure. Before the offer goes live in Azure Marketplace, your Azure subscription needs to be added into white list to successfully deploy VM using ARM template of this repo.
3. Install Azure CLI.
4. Install PowerShell Core.
5. Install Maven.
6. Install jq.

Steps of deployment

1. Checkout azure-javaee-iaas

   1. Change to directory hosting the repo project & run mvn clean install

2. Checkout arm-ttk under the specified parent directory

3. Checkout this repo under the same parent directory and change to directory hosting the repo project

4. Build the project by replacing all placeholder ${<place_holder>} with valid values

   mvn -Dgit.repo=<repo_user> -Dgit.tag=<repo_tag> -DibmUserId=<ibmUserId> -DibmUserPwd=<ibmUserPwd> -Ddynamic=<true|false> -DnumberOfNodes=<numberOfNodes> -DvmSize=<vmSize> -DdmgrVMPrefix=<dmgrVMPrefix> -DmanagedVMPrefix=<managedVMPrefix> -DdnsLabelPrefix=<dnsLabelPrefix> -DadminUsername=<adminUsername> -DadminPasswordOrKey=<adminPassword|adminSSHPublicKey> -DauthenticationType=<password|sshPublicKey> -DwasUsername=<wasUsername> -DwasPassword=<wasPassword> -DconfigureIHS=<true|false> -DihsVmSize=<ihsVmSize> -DihsVMPrefix=<ihsVMPrefix> -DihsDnsLabelPrefix=<ihsDnsLabelPrefix> -DihsUnixUsername=<ihsUnixUsername> -DihsUnixPasswordOrKey=<ihsUnixPassword|ihsUnixSSHPublicKey> -DihsAuthenticationType=<password|sshPublicKey> -DihsAdminUsername=<ihsAdminUsername> -DihsAdminPassword=<ihsAdminPassword> -Dtest.args="-Test All" -Ptemplate-validation-tests clean install

5. Change to ./target/cli directory

6. Using deploy.azcli to deploy

   ./deploy.azcli -n <deploymentName> -i <subscriptionId> -g <resourceGroupName> -l <resourceGroupLocation>

After deployment

1. If you check the resource group in azure portal, you will see multiple VMs and related resources specified for the cluster created
2. To open IBM WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console in browser for further administration:
   1. Login to Azure Portal
   2. Open the resource group you specified to deploy WebSphere Cluster
   3. Navigate to "Deployments > specified_deployment_name > Outputs"
   4. Copy value of property adminSecuredConsole and browse it with credentials you specified in cluster creation
   5. Copy value of property ihsConsole and open it in your browser if you selected to deploy IBM HTTP Server before