A. Synopsis
What this is about
We’ve created a IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core cartridge in order to demonstrate the power and flexibility of Red Hat’s Open Hybrid Cloud strategy. Liberty Core provides a lightweight alternative to the classic WebSphere Application Server ND (cartridge available here: https://github.com/juhoffma/openshift-origin-websphere-cartridge) mainly targeting web applications using JEE web profile.
The cartridge currently supports the following features:
- Provisioning of new IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core instances in seconds (!)
- Full build & Deploy life cycle (as with JBoss EAP cartridge)
- Hot Deployment
- Auto Scaling with web traffic
- Jenkins Integration
- Integration into JBoss Developer Studio
The source code can be found here: https://github.com/juhoffma/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge
Screenshots
B. Installation
1. Setup OSE Environment
You have the following deployment options for this cartridge:
- OpenShift Origin developer image
- OpenShift Enterprise developer image
- Standalone installation of Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise.
2. Cartridge Installation
This cartridge does not actually ship the Liberty Profile binaries. These
have to be installed manually before this cartridge actually works. The Binaries can
be installed in 2 different ways:
- OPTION 1 – Install the Liberty Core underneath the versions directory
- OPTION 2 – Install Liberty Core outside of the cartridge context
The following sections describe the 2 different methods.
Prepare the installation
Download the required IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core Installer from the IBM developer site https://developer.ibm.com/wasdev/downloads/liberty-profile-using-non-eclipse-environments/:
node# cd /opt
node# wget https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/software/websphere/wasdev/downloads/wlp/8.5.5.4/wlp-developers-runtime-8.5.5.4.jar
Clone the cartridge repository:
node# git clone https://github.com/juhoffma/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 139, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (103/103), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (139/139), 898.18 KiB | 1.33 MiB/s, done.
remote: Total 139 (delta 46), reused 106 (delta 15), pack-reused 0
Resolving deltas: 100% (46/46), done.
OPTION 1 – Install the Liberty Core underneath the versions directory
node# java -jar /opt/wlp-developers-runtime-8.5.5.4.jar --acceptLicense /opt/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge/versions/8.5.5.4
Before you can use, extract, or install IBM WebSphere Application
Server for Developers V8.5.5, you must accept the terms of
International License Agreement for Non-Warranted Programs and
additional license information. Please read the following license
agreements carefully.
The --acceptLicense argument was found. This indicates that you have
accepted the terms of the license agreement.
Extracting files to /opt/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge/versions/8.5.5.4/wlp
Successfully extracted all product files.
OPTION 2 – Install Liberty Core outside of the cartridge context
Binary installation
You can also install IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core outside of the cartridge and
define the location using a node level variable like you can do with the full
WebSphere cartridge.
To make this work all you have to do is to create the file
/etc/openshift/env/OPENSHIFT_LIBERTY_INSTALL_DIR and put the installation location into
it. See the Official Documentation for an example on how to configure node level variables.
Customize SELinux Configuration
Since IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core is installed outside of the gear’s sandbox, you need to customize SELinux permission settings in a way that the installation directory “/opt/IBM/
As a workaround and/or for testing purposes you could also temporarily disable SELinux policy enforcement:
setenforce 0
Install and activate the cartridge
node# oo-admin-cartridge --action install -s /opt/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge --mco
1 / 1
vm.openshift.example.com
output: install succeeded for /opt/openshift-origin-liberty-cartridge
Finished processing 1 / 1 hosts in 3174.10 ms
broker# oo-admin-ctl-cartridge -c import-node --activate --obsolete --force
Importing cartridges from node 'vm.openshift.example.com'.
Updating 26 cartridges ...
54f62e57e659c5cd31000001 # U mysql-5.5 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000002 # U mysql-5.1 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000003 # U jenkins-1 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000004 # U nodejs-0.10 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000005 # U haproxy-1.4 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000006 # U jbosseap-6 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000007 # U jbossews-2.0 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000008 # U jbossews-1.0 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000009 # U php-5.4 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100000a # U php-5.3 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100000b # U mongodb-2.4 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100000c # U postgresql-9.2 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100000d # U postgresql-8.4 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100000e # U python-3.3 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100000f # U python-2.7 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000010 # U python-2.6 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000011 # U perl-5.10 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000012 # U diy-0.1 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000013 # U jenkins-client-1 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000014 # U ruby-1.8 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000015 # U ruby-1.9 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000016 # U ruby-2.0 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000017 # U amq-6.1.1 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000018 # U cron-1.4 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd31000019 # U fuse-6.1.1 (active)
54f62e57e659c5cd3100001a # A hoffmann-liberty-8.5.5.4 (active)
Make sure you see the line reporting the cartridge 54f62e57e659c5cd3100001a # A hoffmann-liberty-8.5.5.4 (active)
broker# oo-admin-broker-cache --clear; oo-admin-console-cache --clear
C. Reference Information
WebSphere specific
- Getting started with Liberty for Developers
- Supported Software & Hardware
- IBM Information Center
- Command port needs to be disabled
OpenShift specific
