auto deploy to tomcat on jenkins use maven

1. auto deploy to tomcat on jenkins

2. maven
tomcat
github
Jenkins
OpenShift

3. 1. create a account for deploy on tomcat
<role rolename="manager-gui"/>
<role rolename="manager-script"/>
<user username="username" password="password" roles="manager-gui,manager-script" />

4. 2. setup maven by settings.xml at maven conf dir
the authorization of deploy war to tomcat
http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/tomcat7-maven-plugin/usage.html

5. 3. add maven plug-in setup for your project’s pom.xml
let you project tell maven where the tomcat need to deploy
<build>
….
<!-- For Maven Tomcat Plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<server>myserver</server>
<path>/myapp</path>
<url>http://serverIP:8080/manager/text</url>
</configuration>
</plugin>
…
</plugins>
</build>

6. 4. jenkins should know how to do
below, to reach the target only need is add
goals ...tomcat7:undeploy ,tomcat7:deploy …. and run jenkins bulid !!

7. appendix

8. 5. another point
here some setup include security ,so need seperate to deal

9. 5.1 touch openshift app’s source code repository
every openshift app have own source code repository

10. 5.2 use git