JBoss EAP

JBoss EAP – Credential Store

In the previous blogs, I explained the difference between Credential Store and Password Vault (Credential Store vs Password Vault), and I share how to secure your sensitive strings with Password Vault. Today,(…)

JBoss EAP – Credential Store vs Password Vault

JBoss EAP configuration files are accessible and not encrypted (xml files), moreover, some sensitive strings could/should be store there... For obvious security reasons, JBoss EAP allows the encryption of the sensitive strings outside the configurations files.

JBoss EAP 7 – Use vault to protect passwords

JBoss EAP simplifies a lot of server configuration by consolidating all subsystem configurations into a single XML file (standalone.xml or domain.xml). This, however, can expose sensitive information to any user that has access to the configuration files. For example, datasource(…)

JBoss-EAP and WildFly Official Docker Images

In this blog, I will focus on what is available from vendor for the two application servers I am used to work with: JBoss EAP and WildFly. Along this blog, I will show few tips and concepts on docker commands.

JBoss EAP Patching

jboss-cli tool comes with a command named patch. As the process is obvious, this blog will be short. Nevertheless, it is still interesting to see how it changes files and directories structure of JBoss binaries. It’s worth noting that RedHat(…)

WildFly monitoring in Prometheus

In this blog, we will see how easy it is to add a WildFly server into a Prometheus setup. Metrics Fortunately, WildFly comes with a integrated metrics subsystem which is included in all out-of-the-box profiles. In the management console, we(…)

Log Rotation in JBoss-EAP

Log rotation is an important topic while configuring any software. If it is not tuned as it should it could lead to full partitions, service outages or even configuration corruptions.JBoss-EAP is not different, thus I will explain what are our(…)

Overcome jboss-cli Limitations with Ansible

The work on YaK JBoss/WildFly component helped me to improve my knowledge of Ansible, but not only. I also learned a lot on jboss-cli scripting and especially limitations that comes with it. For instance, followings are(…)

JBoss EAP (and WildFly) cli Scripting via Ansible

As I am working on a new YaK component to deploy a JBoss-EAP/WildFly server, I decided to configure it with help of jboss-cli.sh scripting tool instead of direct modification of xml files. The idea is to(…)

JBoss EAP 7 – Cluster in Domain mode

It is time to show you how to build a cluster with Domain mode within JBoss EAP 7. Before you read this blog I suggest you to review the following blogs: JBoss terminologies, the(…)