This Maven plugin is a one-stop-shop for building and deploying Java applications for Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift. It brings your Java applications on to Kubernetes and OpenShift. It provides a tight integration into maven and benefits from the build configuration already provided. It focuses on three tasks:

• Building Docker images
• Creating OpenShift and Kubernetes resources
• Deploy application on Kubernetes and OpenShift

To enable fabric8 maven plugin on your project just add this to the plugins sections of your pom.xml:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>io.fabric8</groupId>
        <artifactId>fabric8-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${fmp.version}</version>
      </plugin>

Want to get started fast? Check out the Blogpost for Getting Started with Fabric8 Maven Plugin.

The full documentation can be found in the User Manual [PDF]. It supports the following goals:

• Includes docker-maven-plugin for dealing with Docker images and hence inherits its flexible and powerful configuration.
• Supports both Kubernetes and OpenShift descriptors
• OpenShift Docker builds with a binary source (as an alternative to a direct image build against a Docker daemon)
• Various configuration styles:
  • Zero Configuration for a quick ramp-up where opinionated defaults will be pre-selected.
  • Inline Configuration within the plugin configuration in an XML syntax.
  • External Configuration templates of the real deployment descriptors which are enriched by the plugin.
• Flexible customization:
  • Generators analyze the Maven build and generated automatic Docker image configurations for certain systems (spring-boot, plain java, karaf ...)
  • Enrichers extend the Kubernetes / OpenShift resource descriptors by extra information like SCM labels and can add default objects like Services.
  • Generators and Enrichers can be individually configured and combined into profiles

✔️ : Supported, all available features can be used

❌ : Not supported at all

🔵 : Supported, but not all features can be used

• User Manual [PDF]
• Examples are in the samples directory
• Many fabric8 Quickstarts use this plugin and are good showcases, too.
• You'll find us in the fabric8 community and on IRC freenode in channel #fabric8 and we are happy to answer any questions.
• Contributions are highly appreciated and encouraged. Please send us Pull Requests.

This is a complete rewrite of the former fabric8-maven plugin. It does not share the same configuration syntax, but migration should be straight forward - please use the fabric8:migrate goal from 2.x of the plugin.