How do I run a spring boot executable jar in a Production environment

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Spring boot s preferred deployment method is via a executable jar file which contains tomcat inside   It is started with a simple java -jar myapp jar   Now  I want to deploy that jar to my linux server on EC2  am I missing something or do I really need to create a init script to properly start the application as a daemon   If I simply call java -jar the application dies when I log out   I could start it in screen or nohup but that is not very elegant and a restart in my server would force me to log in and start the process manually   So  is there something already for the task in spring boot

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If you are using gradle you can just add this to your build.gradle

springBoot {
    executable = true
}

You can then run your application by typing ./your-app.jar

Also, you can find a complete guide here to set up your app as a service

56.1.1 Installation as an init.d service (System V)

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/deployment-install.html

cheers

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You can use the application called Supervisor  In supervisor config you can define multiple services and ways to execute the same   For Java and Spring boot applications the command would be  java -jar springbootapp jar   Options can be provided to keep the application running always So if the EC2 restart then Supervisor will restart you application  I found Supervisor easy to use compared to putting startup scripts in  etc init d  The startup scripts would hang or go into waiting state in case of errors

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This is a simple  you can use spring boot maven plugin to finish your code deploy   the plugin config like    lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt spring-boot-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt configuration gt                       lt jvmArguments gt -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp transport dt socket server y suspend n address   debug port                       lt  jvmArguments gt                       lt profiles gt                           lt profile gt test lt  profile gt                       lt  profiles gt                       lt executable gt true lt  executable gt                   lt  configuration gt               lt  plugin gt    And  the jvmArtuments is add for you jvm  profiles will choose a profile to start your app  executable can make your app driectly run   and if you add mvnw to your project  or you have a maven enveriment  You can just call  mvnw spring-boot run for mvnw or mvn spring-boot run for maven

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Please note that since Spring Boot 1 3 0 M1  you are able to build fully executable jars using Maven and Gradle    For Maven  just include the following in your pom xml    lt plugin gt       lt groupId gt org springframework boot lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt spring-boot-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt       lt configuration gt           lt executable gt true lt  executable gt       lt  configuration gt   lt  plugin gt    For Gradle add the following snippet to your build gradle   springBoot       executable   true     The fully executable jar contains an extra script at the front of the file  which allows you to just symlink your Spring Boot jar to init d or use a systemd script   init d example    ln -s  var yourapp yourapp jar  etc init d yourapp   This allows you to start  stop and restart your application like     etc init d yourapp start stop restart   Or use a systemd script    Unit  Description yourapp After syslog target   Service  ExecStart  var yourapp yourapp jar User yourapp WorkingDirectory  var yourapp SuccessExitStatus 143   Install  WantedBy multi-user target   More information at the following links    Installation as an init d service Installation as a systemd service

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By far the most easiest and reliable way to run Spring Boot applications in production is with Docker  Use Docker Compose  Docker Swarm or Kubernetes if you need to use multiple connected services   Here s a simple Dockerfile from the official Spring Boot Docker guide to get you started   FROM frolvlad alpine-oraclejdk8 slim VOLUME  tmp ADD YOUR-APP-NAME jar app jar RUN sh -c  touch  app jar  ENV JAVA OPTS    ENTRYPOINT    sh    -c    java  JAVA OPTS -Djava security egd file  dev   urandom -jar  app jar      Here s a sample command line to run the container as a daemon   docker run     -d --restart always     -e  SPRING PROFILES ACTIVE prod      -p 8080 8080     prefix imagename

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My Spring boot application has two initializers  One for development and another for production  For development  I use the main method like this    SpringBootApplication public class MyAppInitializer        public static void main String   args            SpringApplication run MyAppInitializer  class  args              My Initializer for production environment extends the SpringBootServletInitializer and looks like this    SpringBootApplication public class MyAppInitializerServlet extends SpringBootServletInitializer      private static final Logger log   Logger              getLogger SpringBootServletInitializer class        Override     protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure              SpringApplicationBuilder builder            log trace  Initializing the application            return builder sources MyAppInitializerServlet  class              I use gradle and my build gradle file applies  WAR  plugin  When I run it in the development environment  I use bootrun task  Where as when I want to deploy it to production  I use assemble task to generate the WAR and deploy   I can run like a normal spring application in production without discounting the advantages provided by the inbuilt tomcat while developing  Hope this helps

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I start applications that I want to run persistently or at least semi-permanently via screen -dmS NAME  path to script  As far as I am informed this is the most elegant solution

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In a production environment you want your app to be started again on a machine restart etc  creating a  etc init d  script and linking to the appropriate runlevel to start and stop it is the correct approach  Spring Boot will not extend to covering this as it is a operating system specific setup and the are tonnes of other options  do you want it running in a chroot jail  does it need to stop   start before some other software etc

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On Windows OS without Service    start bat   ECHO OFF call run bat start   stop bat    ECHO OFF call run bat stop   run bat   ECHO OFF IF   1    start        ECHO start myapp     start  myapp  java -jar -Dspring profiles active staging myapp jar   ELSE IF   1    stop        ECHO stop myapp     TASKKILL  FI  WINDOWTITLE eq myapp    ELSE       ECHO please  use  run bat start  or  run bat stop    pause

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