How to launch Java - continious integration jenkins in MegamVertice

May 09, 2016 Written by Vinothini Platform Developement Engineer

Introduction

Jenkins is the leading open-source automation server. Built with Java, it provides over 1000 plugins to support automating virtually anything, so that humans can actually spend their time doing things machines cannot.

This tutorial will guide you in launching a J2EE web application () in MegamVertice.

Prerequisites

You are running Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux workstation.
Git installed on your server, which you can do by following the How To Install Git with Apt.
You have an account on GitHub, which is a Git repository host.
You have to create a valid credential for accessing Megam Vertice.To know How to create an account with MegamVertice

You have to install openssh-server for ssh access.

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Check SSH working properly

ps aux | grep sshd

In this tutorial you will see the steps to launch the J2EE using jenkins

Step-1 Fork jenkins

Fork jenkins from here
You will be see the fork option in the top right corner of the git hub page.click the fork option.
The jenkins repository is forked into your git repository

Step-2 Launch the app

Go to MegamVertice Dashboard
Rember that when you select memory its upto 2GB
To know how to launch App click here

Buildpack for java

Java’s default build pack get’s going by kicking of maven. We plan to support ant, gradle in the future

#!/bin/bash
megam_home="/var/lib/megam/gulp"
local_repo="/home/megam/tomcat/webapps"
remote_repo="https://github.com/vinomca-megam/jenkins.git"
filename=$(basename "$remote_repo")
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"

  rm $local_repo/*.war
  cd $megam_home
  rm -r $filename
  git clone $remote_repo
  cd $filename
  mvn clean
  mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -U
stop java
start java

Step-3 Access Web browser

You can access your web page by clicking the URL link in App Management Page
Then the below UI will be open
Select the Manager App.It asks User Name and Password Username and password is "megam"