21 Deployment 5.2.3

(Quick Reference) # 21 Deployment Version: 5.2.3 ## Table of Contents # 21 Deployment Grails applications can be deployed in a number of ways, each of which has its pros and cons. ## 21.1 Standalone ### "grails run-app" You should be very familiar with this approach by now, since it is the most common method of running an application during the development phase. An embedded Tomcat server is launched that loads the web application from the development sources, thus allowing it to pick up any changes to application files. You can run the application in the production environment using:
    grails prod run-app
You can run the app using the `bootRun` Gradle task. The next command uses the Gradle Wrapper. `./gradlew bootRun` You can specify an environment supplying `grails.env` system property. `./gradlew -Dgrails.env=prod bootRun` ### Runnable WAR or JAR file Another way to deploy in Grails 3.0 or above is to use the new support for runnable JAR or WAR files. To create runnable archives, run `grails package`:
    grails package
Alternatively, you could use the `assemble` Gradle task. `./gradlew assemble` You can then run either the WAR file or the JAR using your Java installation:
    java -Dgrails.env=prod -jar build/libs/mywar-0.1.war    (or .jar)
### A TAR/ZIP distribution
| Note: TAR/ZIP distribution assembly has been removed from Grails 3.1.
## 21.2 Container Deployment (e.g. Tomcat) Grails apps can be deployed to a Servlet Container or Application Server. ### WAR file A common approach to Grails application deployment in production is to deploy to an existing Servlet container via a WAR file. Containers allow multiple applications to be deployed on the same port with different paths. Creating a WAR file is as simple as executing the war command:
    grails war
This will produce a WAR file that can be deployed to a container, in the `build/libs` directory. Note that by default Grails will include an embeddable version of Tomcat inside the WAR file so that it is runnable (see the previous section), this can cause problems if you deploy to a different version of Tomcat. If you don’t intend to use the embedded container then you should either remove the Tomcat dependencies or change the scope to `testImplementation` prior to deploying to your production container in `build.gradle`:
    testImplementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
## Application servers Ideally you should be able to simply drop a WAR file created by Grails into any application server and it should work straight away. However, things are rarely ever this simple. The Grails website contains a list of application servers that Grails has been tested with, along with any additional steps required to get a Grails WAR file working. ## 21.3 Deployment Configuration Tasks ### Setting up HTTPS and SSL certificates for standalone deployment To configure an SSL certificate and to listen on an HTTPS port instead of HTTP, add properties like these to `application.yml`:
    server:
        port: 8443                                             # The port to listen on
        ssl:
            enabled: true                                      # Activate HTTPS mode on the server port
            key-store: <the-location-of-your-keystore>         # e.g. /etc/tomcat7/keystore/tomcat.keystore
            key-store-password: <your-key-store-password>      # e.g. changeit
            key-alias: <your-key-alias>                        # e.g. tomcat
            key-password: <usually-the-same-as-your-key-store-password>
These settings control the embedded Tomcat container for a production deployment. Alternatively, the properties can be specified on the command-line. Example: `-Dserver.ssl.enabled=true -Dserver.ssl.key-store=/path/to/keystore`.
| Configuration of both an HTTP and HTTPS connector via application properties is not supported. If you want to have both, then you’ll need to configure one of them programmatically. (More information on how to do this can be found in the how-to guide below.)
There are other relevant settings. Further reference: Spring Boot: Embed Webservers - Configure SSL Spring Book: Enable Multiple Connectors with Tomcat Spring Boot: Common Application Properties | Quick Reference (hide)