Gary,
I use Features and the Karaf Maven plugin[1] to create a distribution
containing all necessary bundles that will be used by the child instances. My
Karaf parent and child instances are installed on servers without an internet
connection. What is not propagated to the child instance is the custom content
of /etc from the parent instances. As an example, the I set the maven
repository list in src/main/repository/etc/org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.cfg of the
custom distribute project, which is placed in /etc of the parent instance but
not the child instance.
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* Below is a simplified version of my installation process is a target server:
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- Expand the custom distribution
- Start the parent instance using bin/start
- Create child instances using the instance:create command
instance:create --location ${user.home}/child_1 --ssh-port 8103 child_1
instance:create --location ${user.home}/child_2 --ssh-port 8104 child_2
- Update instance specific files in /etc
- Connect to the parent instance with bin/child -u karaf
- For each child instance
- Start and connect to the instance
instance:start --wait child_n
instance:connect -u karaf -p karaf child_n
- Customize child instance specific properties
config:edit org.ops4j.pax.web
config:property-set org.osgi.service.http.port 8183
config:property-list
config:update
- Add feature repositories
feature:repo-add mvn:org.apache.cxf.karaf/apache-cxf/3.0.2/xml/features
feature:repo-add mvn:com.foo/my-karaf-feature/1.2.0/xml/features
- Install features
feature:install transaction/1.1.1
feature:install my-production-server
I have also created a simple Maven repository using an Apache web server to
simplify the installation of installing and updating bundles.
Paul Spencer
[1]
http://karaf.apache.org/manual/latest-3.0.x/developers-guide/custom-distribution.html
> On Aug 16, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Gary Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to create a custom distribution which contains a set of
> pre-configured child instances? Or is this something that would require some
> custom maven assembly work?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
