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Using the Cloud Tools Maven Plugin

Cloud Tools provides a Maven plugin for deploying a Maven web application project to EC2 and running load tests. The plugin uses EC2Deploy and so you need to follow some of its setup instructions. Most notably, you must first create an aws.properties file and install the Jets3t synchronize.jar in your maven repository.

Goals

There are the following goals:

Goal	Description	Required properties
cloudtools:deploy	Deploy the application on EC2 (note mvn package must have been run)
cloudtools:redeploy	Redeploy the application (note mvn package must have been run)
cloudtools:jmeter	Run a jmeter load test	cloudtools.jmxTestFile cloudtools.threadCount
cloudtools:stop	Terminate the instances
cloudtools:dbsave	save a database snapshot in S3	cloudtools.s3.path
cloudtools:dbrestore	restore the database from S3	cloudtools.s3.path
cloudtools:clone	creates a copy of the cluster	cloudtools.new.cluster.name
cloudtools:describe	describes the cluster
cloudtools:list	lists the available clusters
cloudtools:stop	shutdown the cluster

All goals require the cloudtools.aws.properties property to be set. In addition, you can specify the cluster name using the cloudtools.cluster.name. It defaults to maven-cluster

Configuration

Here is an example configuration of the plugin in your web application's pom.xml

<repositories>
   <repository>
      <id>pia-repository</id>
      <url>http://www.pojosinaction.com/repository</url>
   </repository>
</repositories>

<pluginRepositories>
   <pluginRepository>
      <id>pia-repository</id>
      <url>http://www.pojosinaction.com/repository</url>
      <snapshots>
      <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
   </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>

<build>

  <plugins>

     <plugin>
                <groupId>net.chrisrichardson</groupId>
                <artifactId>cloudtools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <awsPropertiesFile>${cloudtools.plugin.awsPropertiesFile}</awsPropertiesFile>
                    <schemaName>ptrack</schemaName>
                    <schemaUsers>
                        <param>
                            ptrack:ptrack
                        </param>
                    </schemaUsers>
                    <sqlScripts>
                        <param>script1.sql</param>
                        <param>script2.sql</param>
                    </sqlScripts>
                    <catalinaOptsBuilder>
                        {builder, databasePrivateDnsName ->
                            builder.arg("-server")
                            builder.arg("-Xmx1000m")
                            builder.prop("com.sun.management.jmxremote")
                            builder.prop("com.sun.management.jmxremote.port", 8091)
                            builder.prop("com.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate", false)
                            builder.prop("com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl", false)
                            builder.prop("ptrack.application.environment", "ec2") 
                            builder.prop("jdbc.db.server", databasePrivateDnsName)}
                    </catalinaOptsBuilder>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

  </plugins>

</build>