This document provides an overview of the Eclipse tooling for OpenShift. It begins with an agenda and assumptions. It then defines Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. It highlights benefits of using a PaaS like OpenShift. Supported technologies are listed, including Java, JBoss Tools, Maven, and Jenkins. Steps are provided to get started, including signing up, installing plugins, creating a domain and applications. Demo steps are outlined. Command line tools are discussed. Creating an application in Eclipse is demonstrated.

1. Eclipse Tooling for
OpenShift
Steve Citron-Pousty
PaaS Dust Spreader, Red Hat
March 20, 2012
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2. Agenda
• What is OpenShift?
• Showing off the Awesomeness in Eclpise
• Questions
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3. My Goal for today
1) Teach ya’ some cloud speak
2) Show you a little bit of OpenShift
3) Mostly to show off the power of what our engineers
did to leverage and eclipse
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4. Assumptions
1) You use Eclipse with Java
2) You use a datastore with your apps
3) You know SVN and you might know GIT
4) You are unfamiliar with PaaS
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5. What is OpenShift?
Red Hat’s free platform as a service for applications in the cloud.
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6. Kind of like Amazon, right? Nope.
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7. What’s Infrastructure as a Service?
• Network, storage and compute offered as an on-
demand service
• Basically, servers in the cloud
• You’re still on the hook to configure & manage the
cloud & stack
• Example: Amazon EC2
“How do I use this?”
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8. What’s Platform as a Service?
• It’s an application platform
• Basically, an app run-time environment in the cloud
• PaaS configures & manages the cloud & stack for you
• Example: OpenShift
“The cloud is now useful!”
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9. What’s Software as a Service?
• It’s an on-demand application
• Nothing to install or configure
• Example: Salesforce, Gmail
“This is all my customers and users care about!”
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10. So, why should I use a PaaS?
• Realize the benefits of the cloud quickly
• Let the PaaS configure, manage & scale the stack
• Make deployments to the cloud easy
• Focus on your app & users, not the stack
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11. What’s supported?
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12. Looks great, but how much does it
cost?
• OpenShift is free-as-in-beer
• Five 512 MB RAM / 1 GB Storage instances
• Need more resources, just ask!
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13. …and OpenShift rocks for Java
JBoss Tools and Eclipse
• Jenkins for Continuous Integration
Maven for Build Management
JBoss AS 7.1 delivers EE6 with CDI
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14. How does it work?
• Install Jboss studio
Version: 5.0.0.Beta2
• Sign up on the web site and
create a domain
• Use the tools
• Install the client tools
• Create a domain name
• Create an application
rhc-create-app –a my_app –t my_lang
• Congrats! You are now in the cloud!
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15. But, First, Two Things….
Git
• Is used to push changes to apps on OpenShift
• Is a distributed revision control and source code
management system
Github
• Is where you’ll find dozens of OpenShift quickstarts
• Pull and push these quickstart repos
• github.com/openshift
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16. So, Let’s Get Started!
1. Sign up
2. Install Jboss Studio or Plugin
3. Create a domain name
4. Use the tools to get going
5. Create an application
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17. DEMO – Finally!
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18. So here are the steps
1) Create an account and a domain on openshift.com using the web console
• Remember your domain has to be unique to the rhcloud.com
namespace.
• It will be used in all your apps urls
2) Then go ahead and create an app using the eclipse plugin
• Make sure to add in your Database and the PHPAdmin
• Make sure to store the usernames and passwords for the DB and
PHPAdmin
• The plugin will then prompt if you want to check out the source and
create a project – SAY YES
3) You can now modify the source and then commit and push to remote
repository
4) Any modifications after this you will need the command line tools
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19. 1. Sign Up!
• openshift.com
• All it takes is an email address (register with your
Accenture email address)
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20. Let’s install the Eclipse Tool
1) Grab the lastest beta version – there is a lot of active
work on the tools
http://www.jboss.org/tools/download/dev
2) It has most of the functionality you will need
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21. Steps to creating an application in eclipse
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22. Next steps
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23. Final Steps
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24. When you will definitely need the Command line
tools
1) Port Fowarding (for getting MySQL Workbench on
your machine to talk to your OpenShift instance)
2) If you don’t want to use the Command line tools you
can also SSH into the server for tasks
1) Non-standard user ID
2) Please don’t mess with Jboss server directly – use git
to push code changes
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25. Quick Tip: Client Tool Commands
rhc-* : prefix for all commands
rhc-create-domain : Create a namespace
rhc-create-app : Create an application
rhc-ctl-app : Control an app and embed components
rhc-snapshot : Backup and restore an application
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26. 4. Create an Application
$ rhc app create –a <your app name> -t jbossas-7
Password:
Wait! Let’s see that in eclipse!
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27. FYI
Grabbing a project from GitHub and pushing it to your
OpenShift Account
http://github.com/openshift
We are going to do the kitchen sink example.
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28. Next Steps
• Ask Questions
• Go home and sign up to play
• Use code eclipsecon please
• Give us feedback
• Vote
• File bugs
• End of April you can download the code
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