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How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
I need to setup a new maven repo due to some changes we're making in our CI
framework.
Basically, I want something simple.. I was looking at bintray and
artifactory and I think they are overkill for what we need and could be
rather expensive per year.
We already have plenty of hardware so I just want something simple.
We used to use SCP but I don't want to give our CI hosting provider / SAAS
the ability to auth into our cluster.
WebDAV seems ideal because it could just work with plain old apache.
However, I can't find any documentation for how to set this up.
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Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
Posted by Graham Leggett <mi...@sharp.fm>.
On 05 Nov 2015, at 2:13 AM, Kevin Burton <bu...@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> I need to setup a new maven repo due to some changes we're making in our CI
> framework.
>
> Basically, I want something simple.. I was looking at bintray and
> artifactory and I think they are overkill for what we need and could be
> rather expensive per year.
>
> We already have plenty of hardware so I just want something simple.
>
> We used to use SCP but I don't want to give our CI hosting provider / SAAS
> the ability to auth into our cluster.
>
> WebDAV seems ideal because it could just work with plain old apache.
>
> However, I can't find any documentation for how to set this up.
I’ve used webdav based repos for years, and they work well.
On the server side you just need plain old Apache, secure with username/password or certs (but if you use certs, make sure you use a version of maven that supports them, some of the versions are broken with respect to SSL handling with respect to certs and/or SNI)
In the pom, I have a distributionManagement section that looks like this:
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>repo.example.com</id>
<name>Example Repository</name>
<url>dav:https://repo.example.com/dev/maven2</url>
</repository>
<site>
<id>repo.example.com</id>
<name>${project.name} Website</name>
<url>dav:https://repo.example.com/dev/docs/${project.artifactId}/${project.version}/</url>
</site>
</distributionManagement>
I’ve also used this extension, though not sure if it is still required:
<build>
...
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
<artifactId>wagon-webdav</artifactId>
<version>1.0-beta-2</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
…
</build>
Regards,
Graham
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Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
Posted by Mark Eggers <it...@yahoo.com.INVALID>.
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Kevin,
Nexus OSS is simple to set up and run either stand-alone or behind
Apache HTTPD.
. . . just a happy user
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On 11/4/2015 4:13 PM, Kevin Burton wrote:
> I need to setup a new maven repo due to some changes we're making
> in our CI framework.
>
> Basically, I want something simple.. I was looking at bintray and
> artifactory and I think they are overkill for what we need and
> could be rather expensive per year.
>
> We already have plenty of hardware so I just want something
> simple.
>
> We used to use SCP but I don't want to give our CI hosting provider
> / SAAS the ability to auth into our cluster.
>
> WebDAV seems ideal because it could just work with plain old
> apache.
>
> However, I can't find any documentation for how to set this up.
>
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Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
Posted by Ken Hylton <ke...@gmail.com>.
Another +1 on not trying a home-grown solution. I manage an Artifactory
server that services 4000+ developers, and have had exactly one issue in a
year and a half (restarted server/service, 5 min outage). Before that we
ran Nexus, and NEVER had any issues with that.
Thanks,
Ken
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Robert Patrick <ro...@oracle.com>
wrote:
> +1 on not trying to use some other solution. Some people I know were
> trying to use WebDAV and the WebDAV wagon to work around some network
> limitation that they had and it was extremely painful and the WebDAV wagon
> seems to have not really been tested very well.
>
> I stood up an artifactory server for my old team used for several years
> and never, ever had to do anything to it (once I added the commands to
> start it to the /etc/init.d scripts)... By default, it uses Tomcat so it
> is very simple to run.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Burton [mailto:burton@spinn3r.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net> wrote:
>
> > A real repository manager is not overkill but rather the basic
> > foundation in a Maven-based dev environment. And there are free versions
> of them:
> > nexus oss, artifactory and archiva.
> > I strongly advice against trying to do this with your home-brewed
> solution!
> >
>
>
> I'm starting to appreciate that perspective but then again it's another
> component in our infra that can fail, requires maintenance, etc.
>
> Additionally there's replication , multiple datacenters, etc.
>
>
> > --
> >
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> Engineers!
>
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> Location: *San Francisco, CA*
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RE: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
Posted by Robert Patrick <ro...@oracle.com>.
+1 on not trying to use some other solution. Some people I know were trying to use WebDAV and the WebDAV wagon to work around some network limitation that they had and it was extremely painful and the WebDAV wagon seems to have not really been tested very well.
I stood up an artifactory server for my old team used for several years and never, ever had to do anything to it (once I added the commands to start it to the /etc/init.d scripts)... By default, it uses Tomcat so it is very simple to run.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Burton [mailto:burton@spinn3r.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2015 3:30 PM
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net> wrote:
> A real repository manager is not overkill but rather the basic
> foundation in a Maven-based dev environment. And there are free versions of them:
> nexus oss, artifactory and archiva.
> I strongly advice against trying to do this with your home-brewed solution!
>
I'm starting to appreciate that perspective but then again it's another component in our infra that can fail, requires maintenance, etc.
Additionally there's replication , multiple datacenters, etc.
> --
>
We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations Engineers!
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… or check out my Google+ profile
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Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
Posted by Kevin Burton <bu...@spinn3r.com>.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net> wrote:
> A real repository manager is not overkill but rather the basic foundation
> in a Maven-based dev environment. And there are free versions of them:
> nexus oss, artifactory and archiva.
> I strongly advice against trying to do this with your home-brewed solution!
>
I'm starting to appreciate that perspective but then again it's another
component in our infra that can fail, requires maintenance, etc.
Additionally there's replication , multiple datacenters, etc.
> --
>
We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations
Engineers!
Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com
Location: *San Francisco, CA*
blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com
… or check out my Google+ profile
<https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts>
Re: How easy/reliable is a maven repo hosted on webdav?
Posted by Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net>.
A real repository manager is not overkill but rather the basic foundation
in a Maven-based dev environment. And there are free versions of them:
nexus oss, artifactory and archiva.
I strongly advice against trying to do this with your home-brewed solution!
/Anders (mobile)
On Nov 5, 2015 1:14 AM, "Kevin Burton" <bu...@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> I need to setup a new maven repo due to some changes we're making in our CI
> framework.
>
> Basically, I want something simple.. I was looking at bintray and
> artifactory and I think they are overkill for what we need and could be
> rather expensive per year.
>
> We already have plenty of hardware so I just want something simple.
>
> We used to use SCP but I don't want to give our CI hosting provider / SAAS
> the ability to auth into our cluster.
>
> WebDAV seems ideal because it could just work with plain old apache.
>
> However, I can't find any documentation for how to set this up.
>
> --
>
> We’re hiring if you know of any awesome Java Devops or Linux Operations
> Engineers!
>
> Founder/CEO Spinn3r.com
> Location: *San Francisco, CA*
> blog: http://burtonator.wordpress.com
> … or check out my Google+ profile
> <https://plus.google.com/102718274791889610666/posts>
>