Multi stage jhipster environment configured with ansible

What it does

• jhipster pom modified to deploy artifacts to maven
• ansible playbook to install and configure a mariadb database
• ansible playbook to install jhipster app as systemctl (directly from maven)
• ansible directory structure for multi stage environment

To Do

• improving multi stage environment configuration
• add reverse proxy/load balancing features
• use ansible vault

Steps

spin up nexus repository

docker run -d -p 8081:8081 --name nexus sonatype/nexus:oss

configure maven credentials into your maven settings.xml

<server>
  <id>maven.localhost</id>
  <username>admin</username>
  <password>admin123</password>
</server>

build jhipster app and upload it to maven

cd jhipster-app && ./mvnw -Pprod deploy -DskipTests=true

run vagrant

vagrant up

configure database

ansible-playbook -i environments/local database.yml

configure jhipster app

ansible-playbook -i environments/local jhipster.yml

got to http://localhost:8080

Useful links:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manage-multistage-environments-with-ansible