How can i configure Hazelcast distributed maps using Wildfly with hazelcast-jca - wildfly

I'm trying to use Hazelcast with Wildfly.
Following the instructions provided in the Hazelcast website I could start a cluster using the hazelcast-jca and hazelcast-jca-rar.
What I don't know, is where do I configure the distributed maps?

You need to configure the maps in hazelcast.xml and put the configuration into your classpath.
http://docs.hazelcast.org/docs/latest/manual/html-single/index.html#map
Here you can find some code samples for Hazelcast Resource Adapter:
https://github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-code-samples/tree/master/hazelcast-integration/jca-ra
Documentation for Hazelcast Resource Adapter as you already know:
http://docs.hazelcast.org/docs/latest/manual/html-single/index.html#integrating-into-j2ee

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I want to run a restapi server, a spring boot app, to kick start other docker containers inside of the same kubernetes cluster. I found these 2 packages:Spring Cloud Kubernetes and Kubernetes API Client. I am confused on what the difference between the two and which one should I use.
With Spring cloud cal version (2020.x.x), spring cloud Kubernetes comes with two implementations - Fabric8 and Kubernetes Java Client. See here.
NOTE - Prior to spring-cloud cal version spring-cloud-kubernetes used fabric8 impl
Both implementations works fine. While there are many, here is one of the blog comparing the two. In general Fabric8 seems to have more features.
I am not sure if the Spring community prefers any particular impl. Both projects are active.
Spring example here.
I too have an example using Frabric8 on github.

JBoss Switchyard Metrics - where to find the data in the server?

I'm using JBoss AS7 and can see metrics in the following link in the Admin console in my build environment.
http://localhost:10090/console/App.html#sy-metrics
But we don't have the console running in Production nor JMX.
Does JBoss store the metrics somewhere in the server installation which can be extracted for use? It will be useful to find out the services and the methods which are the biggest bottlenecks so that we can improve them.
There's no store of server metrics - you can use something like JBoss Operations Network (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/jboss-middleware/operations-network) to collect them, or if you enable JMX you could probably collect them in Prometheus.
I'm not sure whether you are using Fuse 6 or whether you are using community SwitchYard on top of AS 7 - if you're using Fuse 6, you can probably access the JMX beans through hawtio's jolokia instance.

How to setup kube-aggregator?

Using Kubernetes 1.6.4 and want to enable custom metrics for autoscaling but it require kube-aggregator, I did not find any doc to setup it and integrate with api servers. Any help
Thanks
You need k8s 1.7+ version to use k8s API aggregator feature, and follow below github project which has all required files to setup a metrics server, custom metrics using Prometheus adaptor
https://github.com/pawankkamboj/k8s-custom-metrics

How to monitor ActiveMQ Artemis

I'm doing some testing with RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ "Classic" and ActiveMQ Artemis in a Windows .NET environment. RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ "Classic" ship with a web interface where you can see information about your broker, queues, messages etc., but ActiveMQ Artemis does not. I really want to be able to monitor my ActiveMQ Artemis broker in a web interface or at the very least with some cmd/PowerShell commands.
I've read on this page about some third-party tools that can be used to monitor an ActiveMQ instance and I assumed that it also applied to Artemis. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get these third-party tools to work. Some of them don't seem to work well on Windows and some are old/inactive.
My clients are communicating with the brokers through NMS (.NET Messaging API) in C#. If anyone has been able to monitor their Artemis broker, especially on a Windows machine, please let me know how you did it!
EDIT:
I have managed to communicate with the Jolokia REST API now. With a GET request to:
http://username:password#localhost:8161/jolokia/read/org.apache.activemq.artemis:*
I am able to see a bunch of information about my queues such as messages added and consumed. This is nice information that will help me but I would like information about current memory usage and disk usage.
Take a look at the Management chapter of the Artemis manual. As far as I know, the following options are available to you
JMX (Java Management Service)
JMX is a Java API for managing Java servers. There are multiple GUIs that connect to java servers via JMX. The most notable being jConsole. There is a list of other GUIs here or there, or you could build your own
jConsole
jConsole is a GUI application that you can connect to a JMX enabled server. It is a part of the Java JDK, so you probably have it installed already.
Jolokia
Jolokia, tutorial, is a JSON API layer over JMX. It makes the JMX interface accessible over HTTP(S). You may query the information using any HTTP client library. You already figured out this in your question. Again, there are GUIs on top of that, the most notable being
Hawt.io Artemis plugin
Hawt.io is an Angular.js management console. It can be thought of as a GUI for Jolokia.
Artemis 2.6 and newer
Hawt.io plugin is built in, no extra setup necessary.
Artemis 1
There is a hawt.io plugin for Artemis made by Red Hat. Compile the plugin and get a .war file. Artemis contains a built-in Jetty webserver. You need put that war to apache-artemis-1.3.0/web. You also need to download hawtio-default.war from http://hawt.io/getstarted/index.html to the same directory. Then, in the instance directory, edit etc/bootstrap.xml and add these wars to config.
Or you can get Red Hat AMQ 7, currently in Alpha, which has the management plugin built in. Start it up and go to localhost:8161/hawtio. I work for a company that sells that product.
Prometheus and Grafana
There is a repository and an accompanying blogpost that describes Prometheus and Grafana setup with ActiveMQ Artemis, all running in OpenShift.
The jmx exporter for Prometheus contains example config for Artemis 2 to get started.
The simplest and easiest way to monitor the broker is with the ActiveMQ Artemis web console. This was added back in 2.3.0 (released in September 2017). At that time it was based on Hawtio 1, but it was recently updated to Hawtio 2.
The most powerful and flexible way to monitor the broker is to use a metrics plugin. Metrics plugins allow integration with specialized monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, Elastic, Prometheus, etc. A Prometheus metrics plugin implementation is available. That combined with a Grafana dashboard for visualization and alerting is very powerful.

Managing deployments for nodes running Camel routes

I have an enterprise application that uses Camel routes and need to be able to provision/start/stop nodes running these Camel routes on multiple machines.
I am looking at Apache Karaf and JBoss Switchyard as 2 solutions to help me deploy and manage these routes. I think I understand the value of Apache Karaf since it is a osgi container and I can un/deploy new routes into it. Will JBoss Switchyard also help me for this issue?
JBoss Fuse
JBoss Fuse which includes Fuse Fabric can manage and provision containers in a cluster / cloud / etc.
http://fuse.fusesource.org/fabric/
JBoss Fuse uses Karaf as the container. So what you can do with Karaf you can do as well with JBoss Fuse.
On top of that Fuse Fabric brings to the table, all the cluster provisioning and management. And with a distributed registry for HA et all.
With JBoss Fuse you can deploy and manage your Camel routes in a cluster. And perform rolling upgrades / downgrades across the nodes in the cluster, and much more. And to go along with that you have commands in the Karaf Shell to perform actions, and as well a web console UI based on http://hawt.io/.
Short answer: Yes JBoss Fuse can manage and provision your Camel routes in a cluster.
SwitchYard
In terms of JBoss SwitchYard, then it uses JBoss Application Server / WildFly as its container (at this time of writing SY does not yet support OSGi). So SY leverages the clustering and management support from JBoss Application Server.
Yes with Apache Karaf you'll be able to deploy/undeploy routes by either installing the appropriate bundle or by installing the corresponding blueprint.xml (containing the route) as Karaf supports deploying of various xml files (which are generated to bundles at runtime). This will give you an easy way of deploying / Developing. Also available with karaf is the def:watch command, it'll help you with developing Bundles cause it will watch your file/maven-repo location for updates and will install those immediately in the container.
For distributing your routes throughout a cluster there is also Apache Karaf - Cellar, a subproject for maintaining Cluster ability for the Karaf container.
take a look at Zookeeper and its support for distributed route policies...
also, check out these master election examples
http://www.systemmobile.com/?p=399
http://frommyworkshop.blogspot.com/2013/06/leader-election-of-camel-router-through.html