Quick Start

Run a new Camel application

Let’s run some sample Camel application. We have prepared a few available to run some quick demo:

  • A Camel main application available at docker.io/squakez/db-app-main:1.0
  • A Camel Quarkus application available at docker.io/squakez/db-app-quarkus:1.0
  • A Camel Spring Boot application available at docker.io/squakez/db-app-sb:1.0

These applications were created, exported and “containerized” via Camel JBang, which includes by default the aforementioned camel-observability-services dependency.

Let’s run them in a Kubernetes cluster (it also works in a local cluster such as Minikube):

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kubectl create deployment camel-app-main --image=docker.io/squakez/db-app-main:1.0

The application should start, but, since there is no label for the operator, this one cannot discover it.

NOTE: ideally your pipeline process should be the one in charge to include this and any other label to the applications.

Let’s include the label via CLI:

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kubectl label deployment camel-app-main camel.apache.org/app=camel-app-main

NOTE: you can test it straight away with any of your existing Camel application by adding the label as well.

The application is immediately imported by the operator. Its metrics are also scraped and available to be monitored:

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kubectl get camelapps
NAME                PHASE     LAST EXCHANGE   EXCHANGE SLI   IMAGE                                  REPLICAS   INFO
camel-app-413       Running   8m32s           OK             squakez/cdb:4.13                       1          Main - 4.13.0-SNAPSHOT (4.13.0-SNAPSHOT)

NOTE: more information are available inspecting the custom resource (i.e. via -o yaml).