Empty /opt/eap (/opt/server) directory in EAP 8 runtime image

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The build process does not copied the EAP files into the JBOSS_HOME location and thus running either image simply produces the following error;
ERROR *** No installed Server, exiting ***

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                                                                      COMMAND    CREATED         STATUS             PORTS                   NAMES
3bab35a8f473  registry.redhat.io/jboss-eap-8-tech-preview/eap8-openjdk17-runtime-openshift-rhel8:latest  /bin/bash  12 seconds ago  Up 12 seconds ago  0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp  runtime_test_eap8_v1
...
[jboss@3bab35a8f473 opt]$ ls -la
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 1 jboss root  46 Feb  7 17:58 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root  root  17 Mar 20 05:08 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 jboss root  11 Feb  7 17:58 eap -> /opt/server
drwxrwxr-x. 3 jboss root  23 Feb  7 17:56 jboss
drwxr-xr-x. 2 jboss root 131 Feb  7 17:58 run-java


[jboss@3bab35a8f473 run]$ pwd
/opt/jboss/container/wildfly/run

[jboss@3bab35a8f473 run]$ ./run
ERROR *** No installed Server, exiting ***

  • EAP8 Builder
sudo podman run -ti -d --name builder_EAP8 -p 8080:8080 registry.redhat.io/jboss-eap-8-tech-preview/eap8-openjdk17-runtime-openshift-rhel8:latest


$ sudo podman run -ti -d --name builder_EAP8 -p 8080:8080 registry.redhat.io/jboss-eap-8-tech-preview/eap8-openjdk17-runtime-openshift-rhel8:latest /bin/bash
b264d5149c04e6a49e6fefc5d00f32171d11501d5326a53ae04cfa2623631a51
[quicklab@node-0 ~]$ sudo podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                                                                      COMMAND    CREATED        STATUS            PORTS                   NAMES
b264d5149c04  registry.redhat.io/jboss-eap-8-tech-preview/eap8-openjdk17-runtime-openshift-rhel8:latest  /bin/bash  9 seconds ago  Up 9 seconds ago  0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp  builder_EAP8

[quicklab@node-0 ~]$ sudo podman exec -it builder_EAP8 /bin/bash
[jboss@b264d5149c04 ~]$ ls
[jboss@b264d5149c04 ~]$ pwd
/home/jboss
[jboss@b264d5149c04 ~]$ ls
[jboss@b264d5149c04 ~]$ cd /opt/
[jboss@b264d5149c04 opt]$ ls -la
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 1 jboss root  46 Feb  7 17:58 .
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root  root  17 Mar 20 05:47 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 jboss root  11 Feb  7 17:58 eap -> /opt/server
drwxrwxr-x. 3 jboss root  23 Feb  7 17:56 jboss
drwxr-xr-x. 2 jboss root 131 Feb  7 17:58 run-java
[jboss@b264d5149c04 opt]$ cd run-java/
[jboss@b264d5149c04 run-java]$ ls
debug-options  java-default-options  parse-proxy-url.sh  proxy-options  translate-no-proxy.sh
[jboss@b264d5149c04 run-java]$ cd ../
[jboss@b264d5149c04 opt]$ cd eap
bash: cd: eap: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    • 8.0.0

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