i would really appreciate if anyone could invest a bit of time to review what i did. Basically this is first time i do this, and that is reason why i need another set of eyes.
I have Spring Boot application and i decided to use docker containers on my server to run applications across multiple environments (DEV, QA and PROD). I invested a lot of time to properly research everything and at the end i was able to achieve what i wanted from the beginning.
Basically my code is on GitLab and instead of using jenkins i wanted to take advantage of GitLab CI and simply automatize deployment of my app.
Lets begin, i will start from Dockerfile and it looks like this:
FROM maven:3.6.3-jdk-11-slim AS MAVEN_BUILD
ARG SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE
MAINTAINER jmj
COPY pom.xml /build/
COPY src /build/src/
WORKDIR /build/
RUN mvn clean install -Dspring.profiles.active=$SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE && mvn package -B -e -Dspring.profiles.active=$SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE
FROM openjdk:11-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=MAVEN_BUILD /build/target/storm-*.jar /app/storm.jar
ENTRYPOINT ["java", "-jar", "storm.jar"]
Dockerfile notes: I had one major issue here, and that is passing dynamically ARG in ENTRYPOINT, to be more specific i wanted to pass active profile, i was able to fix it by passing active profile when doing docker run, which you will see below. Dockerfile question: I am using Java 11 on my project, because it is last LTS version of Java, what i have noticed compared when i used Java 8, is that docker image is really large, a lot of larger than when using Java 8. If i am correct, that is because there is no safe and tested Java 11 alpine image, which at the end produce smaller docker images. My actual question here is: Is my choice of images fine, and is it expected to have image size of ~450MB (on java 8 it was below ~200)
Next lets jump on my .gitlab-ci.yml file.
services:
- docker:19.03.7-dind
stages:
- build and push docker image
- deploy
docker build:
image: docker:stable
stage: build and push docker image
before_script:
- source .${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}.env
script:
- docker build --build-arg SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE=$SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE -t $DOCKER_REPO .
- docker login -u $DOCKER_USER -p $DOCKER_PASSWORD docker.io
- docker push $DOCKER_REPO
deploy:
image: ubuntu:latest
stage: deploy
before_script:
- 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
- eval $(ssh-agent -s)
- echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
- mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- chmod 700 ~/.ssh
- echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh/config
- source .${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}.env
script:
- ssh root@$SERVER "docker stop $APP_NAME; docker system prune -a -f; docker pull $DOCKER_REPO; docker container run -d --name $APP_NAME -p $PORT:8080 -e SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=$SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE $DOCKER_REPO"
Its important to mention that as extension for this file i also have 3 files, with names: .develop.env,.qa.env and .master.env. They represent dynamic variables that i need on different enviorements.
export SPRING_ACTIVE_PROFILE='development'
export DOCKER_REPO="$DOCKER_DEV_REPO"
export APP_NAME="$DEV_APP_NAME"
export PORT='8080'
That is basically it, if anyone can see something that i could improve please let me know. Thank you all in advance.
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