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A really “Quick Start” with Spring Boot, WildFly and OpenShift as opposed to my last, more descriptive article .

OpenShift DIY cartridge is a great way to test unsupported languages on OpenShift. But it is not scalable (you can vote for Scalable DIY cartridge here ) which makes it hard to use with production grade Spring Boot applications. But what if we deployed Spring Boot application to WildFly Application Server? Spring Boot can run with embedded servlet container like Tomcat or much faster Undertow, but it also can be deployed to a standalone application server. This would mean that it can be also deployed to WildFly application server that is supported by OpenShift. Let’s see how easy is to get started with creating a Spring Boot application from scratch and deploy it to WildFly 8.2 on OpenShift.

Gradle 1.6 was the last supported Gradle version to run on OpenShift due to this bug . But as of Gradle 2.2 this is no more an issue, so running newest Gradle on OpenShift should not be a problem anymore with Do It Yourself cartridge. DIY cartridge is an experimental cartridge that provides a way to test unsupported languages on OpenShift. It provides a minimal, free-form scaffolding which leaves all details of the cartridge to the application developer. This blog post illustrates the use of Spring Boot 1.2 and Java 8 running on Undertow, that is supported as a lightweight alternative to Tomcat. It should not take more than 10 minutes to get up and running.