Deploy a MobileFirst virtual application

We can use an Ant task to deploy a MobileFirst virtual application.

The Ant tasks are contained in the worklight-ant.jar file, which we can find in the mobilefirst_server_ pattern_6.3.0.zip file. Extract it before you build and deploy MobileFirst virtual applications with the command line interface.

The Ant task for deploying a MobileFirst virtual application has the following structure:

<taskdef resource="com/worklight/ant/defaults.properties" classpath="${taskdefClasspath}"/>
<target name="deployVAP" depends="buildVap4IPAS">
  <ipas-deployer
    vapZipFile="${vapFile}"
    ipasHost="${ipasHost}"
    username="${username}"
    password="${password}"
    profileName="${profileName}"
    cloudGroupName="${cloudGroupName}"
    ipGroupName="${ipGroupName}"
    priority="${ipasPriority}"/>
</target>

The following table describes the attributes.

Attributes	Description
vapZipFile	Required. Path to the zip file built by vap-builder.
ipasHost	Required. URL of IBM PureApplication System.
username	Required. Username to access PureApplication System console.
password	Required. Password to access PureApplication System console.
deploymentTarget	Optional. Deployment target type used to deploy VAP. The value can be either environment profile (default value) or cloud group.
profileName	Required when deploymentTarget is equal to environment profile. Profile name for deploying VAP.
cloudGroupName	Required. Cloud group name for deploying VAP.
ipGroupName	Required when deploymentTarget is equal to environment profile. IP group name for deploying VAP.
priority	Required when deploymentTarget is equal to environment profile. Priority for deploying VAP.
IPVersion	Required when deploymentTarget is equal to cloud group. IP version used to deploy VAP. The value can be either IPv4 or IPv6.

Parent topic: Build and deploy MobileFirst virtual applications using the command line interface