GitHub Release Pipeline for Java

Goals Set up Maven build pipeline for a Java 11 app Release Maven artifact on GitHub using GitHub actions Setup Maven Assuming that we have a project named sample-app released for my hascode GitHub account: We’re adding some release information to our project’s pom.xml: pom.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.hascode</groupId> <artifactId>sample-app</artifactId> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>bookmark-manager <name>sample-app</name> <description>hasCode.com Bookmark Manager</description> <scm> <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/hascode/sample-app.git </developerConnection> </scm> <distributionManagement> <repository> <id>github</id> <name>GitHub</name> <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/hascode/sample-app</url> </repository> </distributionManagement> <properties> <java.version>11</java.version> <project.scm.id>github</project.scm.id> </properties> [..] </project> ...

May 14, 2021 · 2 min · 398 words · Micha Kops

Install Docker on Linux

Goals Installing a specific Docker version on (Debian-based) Linux Freeze the version to avoid automatic updates Installation curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - (1) sudo add-apt-repository \ (2) "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) \ stable" sudo apt-get update (3) sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce=18.06.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu (4) sudo apt-mark hold docker-ce (5) 1 Add the Docker GPG key 2 Add the Docker repository 3 Update the index 4 Install docker 5 Freeze the version to avoid unwanted automatic updates ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 86 words · Micha Kops

Install Kubernetes Components - Kubeadm, Kubectl, Kubelet

Goals Install kubeadm, kubectl and kubelet on Debian-based Linux Freeze their versions to avoid automatic updates Installation curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add - (1) cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list (2) deb https://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main EOF sudo apt-get update (3) sudo apt-get install -y kubelet=1.15.7-00 kubeadm=1.15.7-00 kubectl=1.15.7-00 (4) sudo apt-mark hold kubelet kubeadm kubectl (5) 1 Add the GPG key 2 Add the kubernetes repo to the sources list 3 Update the index 4 Install kubelet, kubeadm and kubectl It’s important to use the same version for kubelet, kubeadm and kubectl. ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 117 words · Micha Kops

JUnit5 Java Maven Snippet

Goals Use JUnit Maven BOM for version alignment Add minimal dependencies for JUnit5 Java Projekt Setup Excerpt from the Maven project’s pom.xml: <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit-bom</artifactId> <version>5.7.1</version> <type>pom</type> <scope>import</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId> <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> JUnit5 does not work with older versions of the Maven Compiler Plugin and the Surefire Plugin used for test execution. Setting their versions in the pom.xml is done like this: ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 85 words · Micha Kops

MySQL and phpMyAdmin Setup with Docker-Compose

Goals Setup mySQL with phpMyAdmin connected using docker-compose (for development purpose) Prerequisites docker-compose installed Setup This is our docker-compose.yml: version: '3.2' services: db: image: mysql:8.0 container_name: mysql-container restart: always ports: - '6603:3306' environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 12345678 app: depends_on: - db image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin container_name: phpmyadmin restart: always ports: - '8080:80' environment: PMA_HOST: db Running docker-compose up Starting mysql-container ... done Starting phpmyadmin ... done Attaching to mysql-container, phpmyadmin [..] We may now login using the following ultra-secure credentials ;) User: root, Password: 12345678 ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 81 words · Micha Kops

Package a Spring Boot App as RPM

Goals Package a Spring Boot Service as RPM Package Configure systemd integration Add install/uninstall hooks to create users, directories etc. Maven Setup <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId> <version>2.4.2</version> <relativePath/> </parent> <groupId>com.hascode</groupId> <artifactId>sample-app</artifactId> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>sample-app</name> <properties> <java.version>11</java.version> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> (1) <groupId>de.dentrassi.maven</groupId> <artifactId>rpm</artifactId> <version>1.5.0</version> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>rpm</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <packageName>sample-app</packageName> <skipSigning>true</skipSigning> <group>Application/Misc</group> <requires> <require>java-11-openjdk-headless</require> (2) </requires> <entries> <entry> (3) <name>/opt/sample-app</name> <directory>true</directory> <user>root</user> <group>root</group> <mode>0755</mode> </entry> <entry> (4) <name>/opt/sample-app/log</name> <directory>true</directory> <user>sample-app</user> <group>sample-app</group> <mode>0750</mode> </entry> <entry> (5) <name>/opt/sample-app/sample-app.jar</name> <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar</file> <user>root</user> <group>root</group> <mode>0644</mode> </entry> <entry> (6) <name>/usr/lib/systemd/system/sample-app.service</name> <file>${project.basedir}/src/main/dist/sample-app.service</file> <mode>0644</mode> </entry> </entries> <beforeInstallation> (7) <file>${project.basedir}/src/main/dist/preinstall.sh</file> </beforeInstallation> <afterInstallation> <file>${project.basedir}/src/main/dist/postinstall.sh</file> </afterInstallation> <beforeRemoval> <file>${project.basedir}/src/main/dist/preuninstall.sh</file> </beforeRemoval> <license>All rights reserved</license> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> ...

May 14, 2021 · 3 min · 567 words · Micha Kops

Prettier Code Formatter Configuration

Goals Setup Prettier for different environments / IDEs Run Prettier via git hooks Install Prettier Install via npm npm install --save-dev --save-exact prettier Add empty configuration file echo {}> .prettierrc.json Create Prettier ignore file .prettierignore: # Ignore artifacts: build coverage Format all project files with Prettier: npx prettier --write . Git Hooks Adding the following lines to the project’s package-json makes ESLint and Prettier run before each commit: { "husky": { "hooks": { "pre-commit": "lint-staged" } }, "lint-staged": { "**/*": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown" } } ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 90 words · Micha Kops

Setting up a Kubernetes Master Node

Goals Setup a kubernetes master node on a Linux machine Setup Initialize the cluster on the master node sudo kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16 This might take a few minutes …​ afterward we set up our local kubeconfig: mkdir -p $HOME/.kube sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config Verify the Cluster Setup Shows that the cluster is responding and kubectl working: kubectl version

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 65 words · Micha Kops

Synology NAS sync from Linux with rsync over SSH

Goals Configure the NAS to accept SSH and Rsync connections Enable SSH with pub-Key Deploy pub key Synchronize files with rsync Prerequisites We assume, that the Synology NAS basic configuration has been applied and that a shared directory is ready to be our sync target. We will be synchronizing the directory /tmp/samples to the NAS directory /volumes/samples. Synology NAS Setup First of all we need to enable some services on our NAS. ...

May 14, 2021 · 3 min · 436 words · Micha Kops

WordPress Docker Setup

Goals Run WordPress via Docker / Docker-Compose Increase the Upload Filesize Limit Create Docker Compose Configuration Create a docker-compose.yml: version: '3.1' services: wordpress: image: wordpress restart: always ports: - 8080:80 environment: WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db WORDPRESS_DB_USER: exampleuser WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: examplepass WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: exampledb volumes: - wordpress:/var/www/html db: image: mysql:5.7 restart: always environment: MYSQL_DATABASE: exampledb MYSQL_USER: exampleuser MYSQL_PASSWORD: examplepass MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD: '1' volumes: - db:/var/lib/mysql volumes: wordpress: db: Run Docker Compose / Start Containers docker-compose up WARNING: Found orphan containers (wordpress-docker_phpmyadmin_1) for this project. If you removed or renamed this service in your compose file, you can run this command with the --remove-orphans flag to clean it up. Starting wordpress-docker_db_1 ... done Starting wordpress-docker_wordpress_1 ... done Attaching to wordpress-docker_db_1, wordpress-docker_wordpress_1 [..] db_1 | 2021-04-03T18:58:17.247963Z 0 [Note] mysqld: ready for connections. db_1 | Version: '5.7.33' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL) ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 204 words · Micha Kops