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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 11682

Should I use Jenkins CI server for deploying WAR file to Tomcat?

I have recently started using jenkins for continuous integration of my project. It builds a WAR file (using Maven) and an Android app (using Ant). I also want to automate the deployment of a nightly build of the WAR onto my Tomcat test server and a deployment of my Android app to a webserver so it can be installed over the air. One way to do this is to add an ant build target for this release distribution, and have Jenkins call this ant taget.

My question is, is this appropriate use of Jenkins or should I have a separate process for this release distribution (e.g. a cron job calling the ant target)?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7078

Answers (3)

Johan Norén
Johan Norén

Reputation: 657

You should defintively use Jenkins for this. There is a deploy-plugin which works for Tomcat among other servers. Configure is as a post-build action and it will deploy your war file to a specific Tomcat instance. You can choose to only redeploy the web app if all tests has passed etcetera.

I wrote a guide on this here http://macgyverdev.blogspot.se/2014/02/how-to-make-jenkins-install-packaged.html

Upvotes: 1

Mike
Mike

Reputation: 8100

If you have an ant target able to publish your .war file to Tomcat as well as your Android app to your webserver already, you can create a job (or two) inside Jenkins to perform these tasks, and then use the "Build Periodically" option in Jenkins to only build these jobs at specified times.

The "Build Periodically" box uses cron-style time definitions.

# min hour day-of-month month day-of-week
# Some examples:
# Run this job at 4 am daily
0 4 * * *

# Run this job at midnight daily
@midnight

# Run this job every Sunday at 3pm
0 15 * * 0
# or (Note: Sunday == day-of-week 0 and 7)
0 15 * * 7

For more decent cron examples, check out this example

Upvotes: 1

Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor

Reputation: 78021

Here's an article to read with good advice on running deployments from a CI server like Jenkins:

http://decodify.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-build-one-click-deployment-job.html

Upvotes: 2

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