Hello Marco, On 18 Dec 2013, at 14:03 , Marco Westermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think about using ace for automated deployment of my osgi bundles. First of > all let me say that its a great idea to have such a software platform like > ace. Thanks for the kind words! > But nevertheless I have some problems in how to setup ace the "proper" way. > At the moment we use nexus and upload our bundles with mvn deploy. > Furthermore we use features to group our bundles. In karaf we use the > features: commands to install the bundles from nexus. That sounds like a pretty common scenario. > At the moment I think of deploying the bundles to ace obr by jenkins but I > cannot find any information how I would do that. Also I miss informations in > how I would deal with snapshot / relase versions. Both good questions… and I admit that we can still improve our documentation, so keep asking such questions! Deploying bundles to an OBR: Here you have different options. In your case, you’re already using Nexus, which can act as an OBR itself. One option you have is to leverage that and use Nexus with ACE. Another option is to use a shell script, using the GoGo shell, to deploy bundles from the CI build to an OBR. A colleague and me recently did a presentation on that at the latest OSGi Community Event. You can find it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S_zvgG_MLw That presentation also talks about dealing with snapshot and release versions, so I recommend you take a look at it. > What I really would appreciate is a real world example in how to setup ace > with all participating stakeholder: > > developer > CI-Server > testserver > productionserver. The video touches on some of these topics as well, but I can imagine there will be a few questions left. There are also multiple ways of doing this, so again, keep asking here. At our company, we use ACE pretty much in the way that is described in the video, and we develop our OSGi applications using Bndtools and Eclipse. Test and production servers are all running in the cloud. Greetings, Marcel
