Hi! Newbie here. I have a ktor project and want to...

# gradle

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

Hi! Newbie here. I have a ktor project and want to inject external .war files to my build and deploy them together with my app with exposed endpoints for each. I have no idea how to achieve this - any pointers would be much appreciated.

[corneil]

What is in the war files?

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

One of them is a complex app (http://geoserver.org/) with web interface which I would like exposed.

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

This thread describes pretty much what I need, but is for Spring - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31374726/spring-boot-how-to-add-another-war-files-to-the-embedded-tomcat

[corneil]

you can package your ktor app as a WAR and deploy all the wars in on server like Netty, Jetty or Tomcat.

[corneil]

What is your deployment environment?

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

Azure Web App

[corneil]

Why not deploy the wars separately within names in the same domain?

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

This is my plan B. However, I wanted to have a single fat JAR with embedded Tomcat, app and WAR dependencies for hassle free deployment.

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

I was also thnking about EAR, but no expierience there either.

[corneil]

In the long run it will probably be the best to deploy each application separately. Ktor as an executable jar. Geoserver as a war in Tomcat or similar. You aren't going to redeploy geoserver often. But I imagine your app will be deployed more frequently. They're going to require different scaling depending on the usage.

[Łukasz Kłosiński]

Thank you Corneil, that's probably what I am going to end up doing ;)