Pro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratch: Building Production-Ready Web Apps Without a Framework

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A. LilleaasPro Kotlin Web Apps from Scratchhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9057-6_11

11. Deploying to Traditional Server Based Environments

August Lilleaas¹  

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Oslo, Norway

 

The most common way to deploy production-grade web apps today is in a traditional server-based environment. This chapter covers how to package your web app so you can deploy it in several types of environments, be it a single-node dedicated server or a distributed multi-server Kubernetes cluster.

Packaging as Self-Contained JAR Files

For any type of deployment setup, you’ll need to package your web app as a self-contained Java archive (JAR) file.

What’s a JAR File

A JAR file is a file ...