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Deploy a Micronaut application to Microsoft Azure

Learn how to deploy a Micronaut application to Microsoft Azure.

Authors: Bruno Borges

Micronaut Version: 4.4.1

1. Getting Started

In this guide, we will create a Micronaut application written in Java.

2. What you will need

To complete this guide, you will need the following:

  • Some time on your hands

  • A decent text editor or IDE

  • Azure CLI installed and authenticated

  • JDK 8 installed with JAVA_HOME configured appropriately (cannot be Java 9 or later)

2.1. Costs

This guide uses services available in the Always Free Tier of Microsoft Azure Free Account. If you don’t have one already, create your account to complete this guide.

3. Solution

We recommend that you follow the instructions in the next sections and create the application step by step. However, you can go right to the completed example.

4. Writing the App

Create an application using the Micronaut Command Line Interface or with Micronaut Launch.

mn create-app example.micronaut.micronautguide --build=maven --lang=java
If you don’t specify the --build argument, Gradle is used as the build tool.
If you don’t specify the --lang argument, Java is used as the language. Because Maven is the required build tool for this guide, it must be specified.

The previous command creates a Micronaut application with the default package example.micronaut in a directory named micronautguide.

Setup IntelliJ IDEA to develop Micronaut Applications.

To get started do the following:

After you’ve checked out the links above, follow below for the next steps on setting up the Maven plugin for Azure deployment.

5. Maven Plugin for Azure App Service

First, make sure you have the Azure CLI installed and authenticated:

az login

Now you can run the following goal to install the Maven plugin and configure the required settings:

mvn com.microsoft.azure:azure-webapp-maven-plugin:1.13.0:config

Make sure you select the following options:

  • OS: linux

  • pricingTier: F1 (Free_F1)

  • javaVersion: jre11

This is how it looks like:

Define value for OS [Linux]:
* 1: Linux
  2: Windows
  3: Docker
Enter your choice: 1
Define value for pricingTier [P1v2]:
   1: B1
   2: B2
   3: B3
   4: D1
   5: F1
*  6: P1v2
   7: P2v2
   8: P3v2
   9: S1
  10: S2
  11: S3
Enter your choice: 5
Define value for javaVersion [Java 8]:
* 1: Java 8
  2: Java 11
Enter your choice: 2
Please confirm webapp properties
Subscription Id : a5321e4a-7c82-4c99-8a62-a79f148f7601
AppName : micronautguide-1617858381368
ResourceGroup : micronautguide-1617858381368-rg
Region : westeurope
PricingTier : Free_F1
OS : Linux
Java : Java 11
Web server stack: Java SE
Deploy to slot : false
Confirm (Y/N) [Y]: Y
[INFO] Saving configuration to pom.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  08:16 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2021-04-08T00:14:21-05:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

6. Sample Controller

Create a controller which we can invoke once the application is deployed.

src/main/java/example/micronaut/HelloController.java
package example.micronaut;

import io.micronaut.http.MediaType;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Controller;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Get;

@Controller("/")
public class HelloController {

    @Get(value = "/", produces = MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String index() {
        return "the Micronaut framework on Azure";
    }
}

7. Deploying the application

To deploy the application to Azure run:

mvn package azure-webapp:deploy

With a BUILD SUCCESS, you should see a message containing the URL of your newly deployed web application:

...
[INFO] Authenticate with Azure CLI 2.0
[INFO] Target Web App doesn't exist. Creating a new one...
[INFO] Creating App Service Plan 'ServicePlan2ef7a87d-fb15-4d3e'...
[INFO] Successfully created App Service Plan.
[INFO] Successfully created Web App.
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] Copying 2 resources to /azure/projects/micronaut-azure-cloud/initial/target/azure-webapp/example-micronaut-1560242864679
[INFO] Trying to deploy artifact to example-micronaut-1560242864679...
[INFO] Renaming /azure/projects/micronaut-azure-cloud/initial/target/azure-webapp/example-micronaut-1560242864679/example-micronaut-0.1.jar to app.jar
[INFO] Deploying the zip package example-micronaut-1560242864679.zip...
[INFO] Exception occurred during deployment: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timeout, retry immediately(1/3)...
[INFO] Successfully deployed the artifact to https://example-micronaut-1560242864679.azurewebsites.net
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 01:59 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2019-06-11T02:02:15-07:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

8. Logging

To see the log of your application running on Azure, you have to first enable storage of your application logging, and then perform a tail for live streaming.

To enable logging storage, use the following Azure CLI command. Check your pom.xml for the generated <resourceGroup> and the <appName>

az webapp log config --name [appName] -g [resourceGroup] --web-server-logging filesystem

Once this is done, you can then tail the log live from the cloud:

az webapp log tail --name [appName] -g [resourceGroup]

If you don’t see any log, try changing the level of the project’s Logback configuration in logback.xml to a higher value such as debug, then run the Maven deployment command again (you may need to run mvn clean prior to this step):

mvn package azure-webapp:deploy

Now, run the tail command above once again to view the logs.

9. Cleaning Up

After you’ve finished this guide, you can clean up the resources you created on Azure so you won’t take the risk of being billed because of them in the future. The following sections describe how to delete or turn off these resources.

Delete the resource group and all of its resources created along this guide with the following command:

az group delete -g [resourceGroup]

Answer y to confirm.

You can add the --no-wait parameter to not wait for the command to finish.

10. Learn More

If you want to learn more about Microsoft Azure for Java development, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure.

11. License

All guides are released with an Apache license 2.0 license for the code and a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license for the writing and media (images…​).