Hawkular - Hawkular Services 0.0.5.Final

What’s in this release

This release has updated components:

Inventory is now at v 0.17.2, which features a new api. The old api endpoint has been moved to /deprecated
Hawkular-Metrics is at v 0.17.0
Hawkular-agent has been bumped to v 0.20.0 to make use of the new Inventory api. Please note that some inventory objects now have a different name.

Hawkular Ruby Client

While not included in these release zips above, we have upgraded the Hawkular-Ruby-Gem to v2.2.0 to cater for the change in the Inventory api. All changes can be seen in the Changes file.

Differences to Hawkular-main

Notable differences between the main Hawkular distribution and Hawkular Services are:

Hawkular Services does not ship with a User Interface. Interaction with the backend is exclusively done via REST.
Authentication is accomplished via JAAS, configured directly via Wildfly. Please refer to the Wildfly documentation on how to accomplish scenarios like LDAP user database.
Due to the changes in the authentication, Keycloak is not part of the distribution, although it can still be used via JAAS. Please refer to the Keycloak documentation on how to protect deployments.
Due to the removal of Keycloak, multi tenancy is also simplified. The backend endpoints expect to receive a Hawkular-Tenant, so, multi tenancy is now handled on the consumer side.

For more information on the details of this new distribution as well as the background, see the blog post New Hawkular packaging. Note that hawkular-core-services on that post is what we now know as hawkular-services.

Hawkular Services is released every week on Tuesdays.

Get started

To get started with Hawkular Services, download the latest release, unzip it, add a user and set the Agent to use the credentials for the user just added.

It can be accomplished with the following commands:

export HAWKULAR_HOME="/path/to/hawkular-services"
export HAWKULAR_USERNAME="jdoe"
export HAWKULAR_PASSWORD="password"

cd "${HAWKULAR_HOME}"
"${HAWKULAR_HOME}/bin/add-user.sh" \
  -a \
  -u "${HAWKULAR_USERNAME}" \
  -p "${HAWKULAR_PASSWORD}" \
  -g read-write,read-only
"${HAWKULAR_HOME}/bin/standalone.sh" -Dhawkular.rest.user="${HAWKULAR_USERNAME}" -Dhawkular.rest.password="${HAWKULAR_PASSWORD}"

Before starting the server, you need to have Cassandra 3.7 up and running with the RPC port enabled either via setting the env variable of CASSANDRA_START_RPC to true

or by editing cassandra.yml and setting it there:

# Whether to start the thrift rpc server.
start_rpc: true

Using ccm you can use this to update the config: ccm updateconf 'start_rpc: true'. Another option is via nodetool enablethrift.

Build from master and Cassandra

If you build from master, you can pass -Pembeddedc to get a distribution with embedded Cassandra for local development. Similarly if you build via -Pdev a default user of jdoe/password will be installed and also be used with the agent.

Get started via (inofficial) Docker builds

There are inofficial Docker images of the release and also an instrumented WildFly available on DockerHub at Hawkular services and Instrumented WildFly.

Both images have been instrumented with the jdoe/password user for the Hawkular server and the agent.

See also http://pilhuhn.blogspot.de/2016/06/using-hawkular-services-via-docker.html on some more details about using those images.

Hawkular Services 0.0.5.Final