[KARAF-5350] Get auto update functionality like "bundle:watch *" on snapshot artifacts from remote repositories

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: karaf
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steinar Bang
• Created: 07/Sep/17 14:33
• Updated: 15/Sep/18 16:35

Description

I now have a continous deployment pipeline for my project almost automated:

1. All changes I would like deployed, I merge to master and then push master to github
2. New pushes on master triggers a build on travis-ci
3. A successful build on travis-ci results in a new snapshot being deployed to a maven repository accessible via HTTP
   1. The bundles that make up my application have been installed from snapshots in the maven repository, like so (karaf consolle commands):

      config:edit org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn
      config:property-append org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.repositories ", https://maven.bang.priv.no/repository/@snapshots, http://maven.vaadin.com/vaadin-addons"
      config:property-set org.ops4j.pax.url.mvn.globalUpdatePolicy always
      config:update
      feature:repo-add mvn:no.priv.bang.ukelonn/ukelonn.karaf/LATEST/xml/features
      feature:install ukelonn-db-postgresql
      feature:install ukelonn
      

4. The final step I have to do during a deployment, is to log in with ssh to the karaf console and give "bundle:update" on each bundle

   bundle:update no.priv.bang.ukelonn.api
   bundle:update no.priv.bang.ukelonn.db.liquibase
   bundle:update no.priv.bang.ukelonn.db.postgresql
   bundle:update no.priv.bang.ukelonn
   

It is the final step I would like to have automated, so that new snapshots deployed to the remote repository is automatically picked up by karaf.