Helidon Quickstart MP

Sample Helidon MP project that includes multiple REST operations.

Build and run

With JDK11+

mvn package
java -jar target/odyssey-jotvault.jar

Exercise the application

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/greet
{"message":"Hello World!"}

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/greet/Joe
{"message":"Hello Joe!"}

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"greeting" : "Hola"}' http://localhost:8080/greet/greeting

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/greet/Jose
{"message":"Hola Jose!"}

Try health and metrics

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:8080/health
{"outcome":"UP",...
. . .

# Prometheus Format
curl -s -X GET http://localhost:8080/metrics
# TYPE base:gc_g1_young_generation_count gauge
. . .

# JSON Format
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' -X GET http://localhost:8080/metrics
{"base":...
. . .

Build the Docker Image

docker build -t odyssey-jotvault .

Start the application with Docker

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 odyssey-jotvault:latest

Exercise the application as described above

Deploy the application to Kubernetes

kubectl cluster-info                         # Verify which cluster
kubectl get pods                             # Verify connectivity to cluster
kubectl create -f app.yaml                   # Deploy application
kubectl get pods                             # Wait for quickstart pod to be RUNNING
kubectl get service helidon-quickstart-mp    # Verify deployed service

Note the PORTs. You can now exercise the application as you did before but use the second port number (the NodePort) instead of 8080.

After you’re done, cleanup.

kubectl delete -f app.yaml

Build a native image with GraalVM

GraalVM allows you to compile your programs ahead-of-time into a native executable. See https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilation/ for more information.

You can build a native executable in 2 different ways:

• With a local installation of GraalVM
• Using Docker

Local build

Download Graal VM at https://www.graalvm.org/downloads, the version currently supported for Helidon is 20.1.0.

# Setup the environment
export GRAALVM_HOME=/path
# build the native executable
mvn package -Pnative-image

You can also put the Graal VM bin directory in your PATH, or pass -DgraalVMHome=/path to the Maven command.

See https://github.com/oracle/helidon-build-tools/tree/master/helidon-maven-plugin#goal-native-image for more information.

Start the application:

./target/odyssey-jotvault

Multi-stage Docker build

Build the "native" Docker Image

docker build -t odyssey-jotvault-native -f Dockerfile.native .

Start the application:

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 odyssey-jotvault-native:latest

Build a Java Runtime Image using jlink

You can build a custom Java Runtime Image (JRI) containing the application jars and the JDK modules on which they depend. This image also:

• Enables Class Data Sharing by default to reduce startup time.
• Contains a customized start script to simplify CDS usage and support debug and test modes.

You can build a custom JRI in two different ways:

• Local
• Using Docker

Local build

# build the JRI
mvn package -Pjlink-image

See https://github.com/oracle/helidon-build-tools/tree/master/helidon-maven-plugin#goal-jlink-image for more information.

Start the application:

./target/odyssey-jotvault-jri/bin/start

Multi-stage Docker build

Build the JRI as a Docker Image

docker build -t odyssey-jotvault-jri -f Dockerfile.jlink .

Start the application:

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 odyssey-jotvault-jri:latest

See the start script help:

docker run --rm odyssey-jotvault-jri:latest --help