Chapter 2. Adding the Quarkus Openshift extension

You need to add the quarkus-openshift extension as a dependency to your Quarkus project so that you can build and deploy your applications as a container image to be used inside your OpenShift cluster.

The OpenShift extension also generates OpenShift resources such as: image streams, build configuration, deployment configuration, service definitions and more. If your Quarkus application includes the quarkus-smallrye-health extension OpenShift can access the health endpoint and check the liveness and readiness of your application.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Change to the directory that contains your Quarkus project.

  2. Use one of the following methods to add the quarkus-openshift extension to your project:

    1. Add the quarkus-openshift extension to the pom.xml file:

      pom.xml

      <dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-openshift</artifactId>
</dependency>

    2. Add the quarkus-openshift extension using the command line: 

      ./mvnw quarkus:add-extension -Dextensions="openshift"