Welcome to the APPUiO Documentation

This is the place where everything related to APPUiO gets documented. Feel free to contribute using pull requests on our GitHub project.

The get started with an example, have a look at the very detailed Microservices Example.

User Documentation

• Getting Started
  • Web Console
  • CLI
  • APPUiO Sample Applications
  • APPUiO - Techlab
  • OpenShift Documentation
• APPUiO Public Platform Specifics
  • Versions
  • URLs and Domains
  • Persistent Storage
  • Quotas and Limits
  • Secure Docker Builds
  • Let’s Encrypt Integration
  • Email Gateway
• APPUiO Secure Docker Builder
  • Rationale
  • Features
  • User-customizable builder configuration
  • Build VMs
  • Build Hooks
  • Multi-stage builds
  • Known Issues
• K8up (Backup Service)
  • What is K8up?
  • More about K8up
• Let’s Encrypt Integration
  • Implementation details
• How Tos
  • How to access the OpenShift registry from outside
  • How to run scheduled jobs on APPUiO
  • How to access an internal service while developing
  • How to use a private repository (on e.g. GitHub) to run S2I builds
  • How to add a persistent volume to an application
  • How to customize the build image/process
• Non HTTP Services / TCP Ingress
• Troubleshooting
  • Build
  • Deployment
  • Application Logs
• FAQ (Technical)
  • Can I run Containers/Pods as root?
  • What do we monitor?
  • What do we backup?
  • What DNS entries should I add to my custom domain?
  • Which IP addresses are being used?
  • How can I secure the access to my web application?
  • Can I run a database on APPUiO?
  • I get an error like ‘Failed Mount: MountVolume.NewMounter initialization failed for volume “gluster-pv123” : endpoints “glusterfs-cluster” not found’
  • How do I kill a pod/container
  • How do I work with a volume if my application crashes because of the data in the volume?
  • How long do we keep application logs?
  • Is OpenShift Service Catalog available to be used?
  • How to pull an image from a private registry or private docker hub
  • I’ve exhausted the number of ReplicationControllers?

APPUiO Microservices Example

• Introduction
  • Architecture of our shop application
  • Structure of this documentation
  • Where you can find the sources
• General Concepts
  • Containers
    • Docker Compose
  • Continuous Integration
    • Jenkins
    • GitLab CI
  • OpenShift / Kubernetes
    • Source2Image
• Webserver
  • Introduction
    • Goals for CI
  • Building a container
  • Running the container
  • Implementing a CI Pipeline
    • Introduction
    • Using caching
    • Building the sources
    • Variables & Parallelization
    • Building a container
  • Preparing the APPUiO project
    • Creating an ImageStream
  • Pushing to the APPUiO registry
    • Creating a service account
    • Configuring the Kubernetes Integration (optional)
    • Extending .gitlab-ci.yml
  • Implementing a deployment strategy
    • Testing and compilation
    • Deployment to staging
    • Deployment to preprod
    • Deployment to prod
    • Creating deployments in APPUiO
  • Advanced Deployments
    • Tracking OpenShift objects
    • Using special YAML features
• API
  • Introduction
    • Goals for CI
  • Building a container
    • Creating a custom S2I builder
  • Running the container
  • Implementing a CI pipeline
    • Running tests
    • Preparing APPUiO for S2I
    • Extending the DeploymentConfig
    • Deployment to APPUiO
• Users
  • Introduction
    • Authentication principles
    • Goals for CI
  • Building a container
    • The builder image
    • The runtime image
  • Running the container
    • Compilation
    • Testing
    • Running
  • Implementing a CI Pipeline
    • Running tests
    • Compiling the application
    • Building a container
  • Deploying to APPUiO
    • Setting up an ImageStream
    • Creating DeploymentConfigs
• Orders
  • Introduction
    • Goals for CI
  • Building and running the container
  • Integrating Jenkins with APPUiO
    • Creating a slave image
    • Building the slave image
    • Adding a pod template for the slave image
    • Configuring credentials
  • Implementing a CI Pipeline
    • Scripted vs. Declarative Pipeline
    • Basic structure of a declarative pipeline
    • Implementing the test stage
    • Implementing the deployment stage
    • Deployment to multiple environments
  • Deploying to APPUiO

Application Tutorials

• Using Helm Charts to Deploy Services
  • Example: Postgres
  • Compatibility
  • Related Resources
• Custom Applications
  • Logging
  • Exception Tracking
  • Monitoring & Alerting
• PHP Source to Image Sample
• PHP Docker Build Sample App
• PHP 7 with Apache Source to Image Example
  • Build Builder
  • Deploy App
• PHP 7 with Nginx Source to Image Example
  • Build Builder
  • Deploy App
• MySql Backup Image
• PostgreSQL Backup Image (the manual way)
• Spring Boot Application
  • Dockerfile
  • Deployment
  • Configuration
• Spring Boot Application in Wildfly
  • Spring Boot Application
  • OpenShift Build Process
  • OpenShift Template
• Spring Boot Application with Angular 2 Frontend
  • Dockerfile
  • Deployment
  • Configuration
• Java EE Source to Image
  • Deployment via oc Client
  • Deployment via webconsole
  • Configuration
  • Speed up your build
• Docker Image
• Deploy Static Content to APPUiO
  • Apache based image
  • Nginx-based image
  • Continuous Integration: Trigger Rebuild
• Binary Deployment in Wildfly
  • Create a new project
  • Create the deployment folder structure
  • Create a new build using the Wildfly image
  • Start the build
  • Create a new app
  • Expose the service as route
• Node JS 6 Example
  • How to deploy to APPUiO / OpenShift Cluster
  • Database
  • Configuration
• MSSQL Server on APPUiO
  • Quick Summary
  • In Detail
• More OpenShift Sample Apps
• Prometheus
  • Installation of prometheus
  • Example Metrics from cadvisor
• Unifi-Controller

License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page