JBoss EAP

JBoss EAP: From Traditional Application Server to Modern Enterprise Runtime

When discussing modern application platforms, JBoss EAP is rarely the technology that creates the most excitement. Today, the attention is more often on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Quarkus, serverless platforms, service meshes, GitOps, and(…)

Moving JBoss EAP Workloads to OpenShift

More and more customers running traditional Java EE or Jakarta EE workloads are asking the same question: “We already use JBoss EAP. Should we move to Kubernetes or OpenShift, and do we need to replace the application server?”(…)

JBoss EAP – Credential Stores: from optional best practice to mandatory security baseline

One of the most impactful (and often underestimated) differences between JBoss EAP 7.4 and JBoss EAP 8 is how credentials are handled. This is not just a documentation tweak or a recommendation shift. It is a hard security enforcement change(…)

From JBoss EAP 7 to 8: What Really Changed

The arrival of JBoss EAP 8 marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Red Hat’s Enterprise Application Server. For many organizations still running on JBoss EAP 7.x, the upgrade brings not only new features but also strategic changes aligned(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)