Helidon Quickstart SE Example

This project implements a simple Hello World REST service using Helidon SE.

Prerequisites

1. Maven 3.5 or newer
2. Java SE 8 or newer
3. Docker 17 or newer to build and run docker images
4. Kubernetes minikube v0.24 or newer to deploy to Kubernetes (or access to a K8s 1.7.4 or newer cluster)
5. Kubectl 1.7.4 or newer to deploy to Kubernetes

Verify prerequisites

java -version
mvn --version
docker --version
minikube version
kubectl version --short

Build

mvn package

Start the application

java -jar target/Helidon_HelloWorld.jar

Exercise the application

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/greet
{"message":"Hello World!"}

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/greet/Joe
{"message":"Hello Joe!"}

curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"greeting" : "Hola"}' http://localhost:8080/greet/greeting

curl -X GET http://localhost:8080/greet/Jose
{"message":"Hola Jose!"}

Try health and metrics

curl -s -X GET http://localhost:8080/health
{"outcome":"UP",...
. . .

# Prometheus Format
curl -s -X GET http://localhost:8080/metrics
# TYPE base:gc_g1_young_generation_count gauge
. . .

# JSON Format
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' -X GET http://localhost:8080/metrics
{"base":...
. . .

Build the Docker Image

docker build -t Helidon_HelloWorld .

Start the application with Docker

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 Helidon_HelloWorld:latest

Exercise the application as described above

Deploy the application to Kubernetes

kubectl cluster-info                # Verify which cluster
kubectl get pods                    # Verify connectivity to cluster
kubectl create -f app.yaml   # Deply application
kubectl get service Helidon_HelloWorld  # Get service info

Native image with GraalVM

GraalVM allows you to compile your programs ahead-of-time into a native executable. See https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilation/ for more information.

You can build a native executable in 2 different ways:

• With a local installation of GraalVM
• Using Docker

Local build

Download Graal VM at https://github.com/oracle/graal/releases, the version currently supported for Helidon is 19.0.0.

# Setup the environment
export GRAALVM_HOME=/path
# build the native executable
mvn package -Pnative-image

You can also put the Graal VM bin directory in your PATH, or pass -DgraalVMHome=/path to the Maven command.

See https://github.com/oracle/helidon-build-tools/tree/master/helidon-maven-plugin for more information.

Start the application:

./target/Helidon_HelloWorld

Multi-stage Docker build

Build the "native" Docker Image

docker build -t Helidon_HelloWorld-native -f Dockerfile.native .

Start the application:

docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 Helidon_HelloWorld-native:latest