Fwd: Re: Installing wildfly

[John W. Himpel]

Forwarding to the list so it does not get lost.

Peter,

I've see that too.  But I haven't had time to study it in any detail.  After I finish up some more work on
KAMI911/ansible-role-wildfly-configuration, I will attempt to accomplish the same task with Jcliff.

John

On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 16:31 +0200, Peter Boy wrote:
> Some additional remarks
>
> just for convenience: KAMI911 wildfly: https://github.com/KAMI911/ansible-role-wildfly-configuration
>
> Unfortunately, documentation is a bit on the sparse side.
>
> One topic we have to address is installation location.
>
> Fedora Server’s default partitioning is separation of system and data. Therefore, Fedora Server default partitioning
> allocates only max. 15 G for system and leaves the rest of a volume group free /unallocated. With an RPM package, one
> would do as Tomcat does, for example, and link the webapps directory to /var/something as provided by FSH. With an
> installation of the binary package this might be difficult.
>
> I found another GitHub Wildfly installation project: serdar/jcliff (https://github.com/bserdar/jcliff) It combines
> ansible with a  Java program (Jcliff) that facilitates configuration of Wildfly and especially orchestration /
> installation of web applications (third party project: https://github.com/ansible-middleware/3trains-cluster-demo)
> /installation and configuration of database drivers (a separate project,
> https://github.com/ansible-middleware/wildfly-jdbc-driver ), all of them using jcliff.
>
> Peter
> > Am 12.08.2021 um 21:23 schrieb John W. Himpel :
> >
> > All,
> >
> > At our last Server WG meeting, I volunteered to write-up requirements for installing wildfly.  Unfortunately, some
> > health issues last weekend got in the way, but everything seems back to normal now.
> >
> > I managed to locate an ansible role on github by KAMI911 called ansible-role-wildfly.  It comes reasonably close to
> > what
> > I would envision the Server WG to publish and support.  It is helping me to formulate a list of requirements.
> >
> > ansible-role-wildfly supports an older version of wildfly and doesn't play too well with systemd.  But it has a lot
> > of
> > good things that do work.
> >
> > I am in the process of trying to support the most recent version of wildfly and to properly interface with systemd. 
> > If
> > I am lucky, it should be able to support simultaneous installations of different version of wildfly.  I also need to
> > strip out the installation of the java JDK from this role and put that into it's own role.
> >
> > All my previous experience with JEE servers has been with WebSphere and WebLogic.  Wildfly uses a very different
> > java
> > classloading system.  So when I finish my work from above, I will try to use one of RedHat tutorials to write,
> > build,
> > deploy and test the wildfly setup.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the Continuous Integration setup on github.  The ansible-role-wildfly has several directories
> > full of configuration and testing stuff to interface with CI on github.  Perhaps when I finish my work, someone else
> > can
> > implement the CI stuff.
> >
> > I will try to publish a basic requirements document for Server crafted and supported roles either sometime next week
> > or
> > the following week.
> >
> > That's all for now.
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