1. Rapid Deployment Models for uPortal -or- "Fast Times at Portal High"
Tom Freestone
Senior Developer
Brigham Young University
2011 Jasig Conference
April 15, 2019

2. Do More with Less Portals ran on large, beefy, expensive machines
Developed Deployment Anti-patterns

3. 1. Deploy “Handraulically”
Involves Install Cookbooks
Boring and Repetitive = Errors
Requires a Jedi Master to Debug
Don’t Get Hit by a Bus Anti-Pattern
Not a Good Use of Resources

4. 2. But it Worked in Development …
Assume Development Environment is the Same as Production.
Assumptions = Killer

5. 3. One of these is not like the Others …
Servers have Personalities
Manual Configuration / Debugging
Changes are not Propagated
Unable to Reproduce Errors

6. Virtual Machines Mass produce “Servers” Problem of Sprawl
125% year increase in servers
How do you deal with configuration differences between dev, test, stage, prod?

7. Continuous Delivery (Jez Humble, David Farley)
Empower our Portal Teams
Reduce Errors
Lower Stress
Flexibility
Everyone can Deploy Quickly

8. 1. Automate Everything Possible
Continuous Integration
Prove your software works with each commit
Benefits
Build is Repeatable
Early Warning of Problems
Wiring and Configuration that Works
Effective Teams
Use Continuous Integration with Portal and Portlets

9. 2. Keep Everything in Version Control
An Application is composed of Binaries, Data and Configuration.
Artifact Repositories
Maven
Yum (rpm)

10. Maven Resource Filtering (Maven Resource Plugin)
1. Enable maven resource plugin <project> ... <name>My Resources Plugin Practice Project</name> ... <build> ... <resources> <resource> <directory>src/main/resources</directory> <filtering>true</filtering> </resource> ... </resources> ... </build> ... </project> 2. HelloWorld.txt Hello ${name} 3. Command Line mvn resources:resources Output : Hello My Resources Plugin Practice Project

11. External Resource Filtering (Maven War Plugin)
   <build>      <plugins>        <plugin>          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>          <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>          <configuration>            <webResources>              <webResource>                <directory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>                <includes>                  <include>web.xml</include>                </includes>                <targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>                <filtering>true</filtering>              </webResource>            </webResources>          </configuration>        </plugin>      </plugins>  </build>

12. Build Profiles
1. pom.xml <profiles> <profile> <id>development</id> <properties> <greeting>Welcome to Jasig</greeting> <properties> </profile> <profile> <id>production</id> <properties> <greeting>Welcome to Denver</greeting> <properties> </profile> </profiles> 2. helloWorld.text Hello ${greeting} 3. Command Line mvn package -P production -> Hello Welcome to Denver mvn package -P development -> Hello Welcome to Jasig

13. Maven Overlay (Maven War Plugin)
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                             <configuration>
                                 <warName>someWar</warName>
                             </configuration>
                        </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>edu.someUniversity</groupId>
            <artifactId>someWar</artifactId>
            <version>${someWar.version}</version>
            <type>war</type>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <properties>
        <someWar.version>3.4.2</someWar.version>
    </properties>

14. Building an RPM
<build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>rpm-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1-alpha-1</version> <extensions>true</extensions> ... <configuration> ... <mappings> <mapping> <directory>/tmp</directory> </mapping> </mappings> ... </configuration> ...</plugin> </plugins> </build> <packaging>rpm</packaging>

15. Examples
CAS
Portlets
uPortal as a rpm

16. Questions?