MDQ server on shibboleth.net (Was: Re: Build failed in Jenkins: java-identity-provider-nightly #634)

[Brent Putman]

On 3/20/15 7:24 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> Brent, did you follow some document to install and deploy this
> instance of mdq-server?

No.  I don't know that Ian has anything formally written up about it. 
I read the code and Spring Boot docs.

You don't really need to know anything to just run it locally and play
around with the entity data contained internally within the jar.  It's
literally just 'java -jar mdq-server.jar'.   Runs on port 8080, using
sensible defaults.

To get it running on the server as a Linux service and a stable unit
test target, I had to spend some time learning about Spring Boot, how
to externalize config, logging, etc.  And then some time cobbling
together Linux launch and init scripts.  I would not claim that those
are in any sense usable in a production capacity, just good enough for
our unit tests.

When I asked, Ian noted that his preferred method of deployment was as
a Docker-based application.  He has an entire project/repo in his
GitHub account that builds an Docker container (or whatever it's
called) specifically for mdq-server.  If you know Docker, you might
want to look at that.

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