1. Tom Freestone
Senior Developer
Brigham Young University
2011 Jasig Conference
June 20, 2013

2. • Portals ran on large, beefy,
expensive machines
• Developed Deployment
Anti-patterns

3. • 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. • Assume Development Environment is
the Same as Production.
• Assumptions = Killer

5. • Servers have Personalities
• Manual Configuration / Debugging
• Changes are not Propagated
• Unable to Reproduce Errors

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

7. • Empower our Portal Teams
• Reduce Errors
• Lower Stress
• Flexibility
• Everyone can Deploy Quickly

8. • 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. • An Application is composed of
Binaries, Data and Configuration.
• Artifact Repositories
– Maven
– Yum (rpm)

10. 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. <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. 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. <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. <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. • CAS
• Portlets
• uPortal as a rpm