Goal
This “how to” guide will explain about create multiple applications with applications.yaml file with Java.
Assumptions
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You either have a Java application, and you want to run at Platform.sh or you already have a Java application running at Platform.sh
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A text editor of your choice.
Steps
Create a .platform/applications.yml file at the root directory of your project, this file will have the each application’s configuration. In this file, we’re going to use YAML’s built-in “anchors” to share configuration typically found in a .platform.app.yaml file between multiple applications.
When we talk about YAML achor there are two important points:
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The anchor ‘&’ which defines a chunk of configuration
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The alias ‘*’ used to refer to that chunk elsewhere
In the code below, we define the anchorappdef that contains the settings of the first application, app, and we use the alias for the second application, app2. That becomes the basis of the first application, which we can then overwrite with information, such as the app’s unique name.
- &appdef
name: app
type: 'java:8'
disk: 1024
source:
root: app
hooks:
build: mvn clean install
mounts:
'server/':
source: local
source_path: server_source
web:
commands:
start: |
cp target/dependency/webapp-runner.jar server/webapp-runner.jar
cp target/tomcat.war server/tomcat.war
cd server && java -jar -Xmx$(jq .info.limits.memory /run/config.json)m -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError webapp-runner.jar --port $PORT tomcat.war
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<<: *appdef
name: app2
source:
root: app2
web:
commands:
start: |
cp target/dependency/webapp-runner.jar server/webapp-runner.jar
cp target/tomcat.war server/tomcat.war
cd server && java -jar -Xmx$(jq .info.limits.memory /run/config.json)m webapp-runner.jar --port $PORT --path app2 tomcat.war