Gradle CloudBees plugin

The development of this plugin has been taken over by CloudBees. Please refer to its new GitHub repository CloudBees-community/gradle-cloudbees-plugin. Development on this repository is discontinued.

The plugin provides support for managing applications and databases on CloudBees RUN@cloud. Under covers the plugin communicates with the CloudBees backend via the CloudBees API client. The code of the plugin is featured in chapter 8 of the book "Gradle in Action" published by Manning.

Usage

To use the CloudBees plugin, include in your build script:

apply plugin: 'cloudbees'

The plugin JAR needs to be defined in the classpath of your build script. It is directly available on Maven Central. Alternatively, you can download it from GitHub and deploy it to your local repository. The following code snippet shows an example on how to retrieve it from Maven Central:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.gradle.api.plugins:gradle-cloudbees-plugin:0.1'
    }
}

Tasks

The CloudBees plugin defines the following tasks:

Application tasks

Task name	Depends on	Type	Description
`cloudBeesAppChecksums`	-	CloudBeesAppChecksums	Returns the checksums for an application.
`cloudBeesAppDelete`	-	CloudBeesAppDelete	Deletes an application.
`cloudBeesAppDeployEar`	-	CloudBeesAppDeployEar	Deploys a new version of an application using a EAR file.
`cloudBeesAppDeployWar`	-	CloudBeesAppDeployWar	Deploys a new version of an application using a WAR file.
`cloudBeesAppInfo`	-	CloudBeesAppInfo	Returns the basic information about an application.
`cloudBeesAppList`	-	CloudBeesAppList	Returns the list of applications available to your account.
`cloudBeesAppRestart`	-	CloudBeesAppRestart	Restarts all deployed instances of an application.
`cloudBeesAppStart`	-	CloudBeesAppStart	Starts all deployed instances of an application.
`cloudBeesAppStop`	-	CloudBeesAppStop	Stops all deployed instances of an application.
`cloudBeesAppTail`	-	CloudBeesAppTail	Establishes a persistent connection to the application logs.

Database tasks

Task name	Depends on	Type	Description
`cloudBeesDbCreate`	-	CloudBeesDbCreate	Creates a new database.
`cloudBeesDbDrop`	-	CloudBeesDbDrop	Drops a database.
`cloudBeesDbInfo`	-	CloudBeesDbInfo	Returns information about connecting to a database.
`cloudBeesDbList`	-	CloudBeesDbList	Returns a list of all the databases associated with your account.

Extension properties

The CloudBees plugin defines the following extension properties in the cloudBees closure:

Property name	Type	Default value	Description
`apiFormat`	String	`XML`	The CloudBees API format.
`apiVersion`	String	`1.0`	The CloudBees API version.
`apiUrl`	String	`https://api.cloudbees.com/api`	The CloudBees API URL.
`apiKey`	String	value of property named `cloudbees.api.key`	The CloudBees API key.
`apiSecret`	String	value of property named `cloudbees.api.secret`	The CloudBees API secret.
`appId`	String	Not null	The application identifier on CloudBees.
`dbId`	String	Not null	The database identifier on CloudBees.

Example

cloudBees {
    appId = 'gradle-in-action/to-do-app'
    dbId = 'gradle-in-action/to-do-db'
}

cloudBeesAppDeployWar.message = project.version

Setting API credentials

If you decide to use the properties cloudbees.api.key and cloudbees.api.secret to populate your API credentials it is recommended to set them in your ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file. The following code snippet shows an example:

cloudbees.api.key = yourApiKey
cloudbees.api.secret = yourApiSecret

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