Hi, usually I use maven as the "transport" it's a much better integration into the CI/CD pipeline. So what I've given you as sample is optimized for exactly this.
regards, Achim [1] - http://image.slidesharecdn.com/microservices-osgi-running-with-apache-karaf-151001101049-lva1-app6891/95/microservices-osgirunningwithapachekaraf-35-638.jpg?cb=1443694516 2016-09-20 9:22 GMT+02:00 <t...@quarendon.net>: > > you can use Pax Exam[1] for that and start Karaf embedded, this will give > > you a clean state for every run. > > Initially I want to do it for testing, but I then want to deploy a > "snapshot" > and "release" version of the actual application for general internal demo > use. I > currently already have an integration test suite, but what it doesn't test > is > the deployment into karaf, so I want to deploy it for testing in a way > that is > as close to the real thing as possible. > > > The other way would be to have a Karaf with Jolokia running and deploy > via > > JMX, I once created a sample for that [2]. > > As I say, my question was really one of what the transport is for the > bundles. > One way of the other I invoke the equivalent of "feature:add-repo", then > "feature:install", my question is what are the URLs, where does karaf > actually > pull stuff from. To use mvn repositories I need to find a way of turning > off the > caching, which so far I've failed to do. Pushing the files on to the remote > machine using SCP and then addressing them with "file:///" URLs seems > another > way, but it seems over complicated to push them. Addressing the artifacts > in > jenkins directly is another way, but it seems like I'm going to have to > write > something bespoke to create a feature repository with the correct URLs in > from > some kind of template (substituting the correct build number in all of the > URLs). > > Just hoping there might be a known best way to do this kind of thing, save > me > figuring it out! > > Thanks. > -- Apache Member Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & Project Lead blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> Co-Author of Apache Karaf Cookbook <http://bit.ly/1ps9rkS> Software Architect / Project Manager / Scrum Master
