Build and deploy

Table of contents

• Introduction
  • Prerequisites
    • Install prerequisites on Ubuntu:
    • Install prerequisites on Windows:
  • Build and deploy
  • Running server

Introduction

CloudBeaver is a web server which provides a rich web interface.
It consists of two parts:

• Server back-end. It is written in Java and reuses "platform" libraries of DBeaver.
• Front-end part. It is written in TypeScript and JavaScript.

This build process is relatively complicated (and also consists of two parts).

Tip: For a practical demonstration of CloudBeaver Enterprise Edition's capabilities, please refer to our demo server. For more information, see Demo Server.

Prerequisites

• Java 21
• Apache Maven (3.9.0+)
• Node.js (20.x)
• Yarn (1.22.x)
• NPM + Lerna

Important: CloudBeaver includes OpenJDK, which is an open-source version of Java. This means you do not need to purchase a separate Java license to use CloudBeaver.

Install prerequisites on Ubuntu:

Add Node.js (version 20.x) and Yarn 1.22.x version repo:

  curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
  echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
  curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -

Install packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-21-jdk
sudo apt install maven
sudo apt install yarn
sudo apt install nodejs
sudo apt install npm

Install prerequisites on Windows:

• Download and install AdoptOpenJDK
• Download and extract Maven.
• Add path to Maven bin folder in system PATH
• Download and install Node.js. NPM comes along with Node.js, NPX/Lerna will be installed in the build script.
• Download and install Yarn 1.22.x

Build and deploy

git clone https://github.com/dbeaver/cloudbeaver.git
cd cloudbeaver/deploy
./build.sh

The final artifacts can be found in deploy/cloudbeaver.

Running server

cd cloudbeaver
./run-server.sh

By default, the server listens to port 8978 (you can change it in conf/cloudbeaver.conf). So just navigate to http://localhost:8978. You can configure Nginx, Apache or any other web server in front of it.

Note: you must be in the server root directory to run it.
If you need to run it from some other directory, then you can set the environment variable CLOUDBEAVER_HOME to the server root directory.