Setting up a Fabric Environment

The tooling provides an environment for developing and debugging fabric applications. Use the tooling to build a mock-up of your actual fabric into which you can deploy your application to test and debug it.

Overview

To set up a fabric environment, you must have access to an existing fabric.

[Note]Note

With Red Hat JBoss Fuse and the JBoss Server Extensions feature installed, you can start up Red Hat JBoss Fuse and create a fabric from inside the tooling. See Managing servers

Setting up a fabric environment involves several basic steps:

  • Providing the details for connecting to an existing fabric

  • Connecting to the fabric

  • Creating the containers that will host the various components of your distributed integration application

  • Assigning each container one or more profiles, which provision containers by deploying and installing specified applications.

[Note]Note

For cloud applications, unless the cloud already has a fabric registry agent running on it, you must create one yourself before you can include it to your fabric environment. For details, see Creating a Fabric in the Cloud.

Opening the fabric perspective

To set up a fabric environment, you must switch to the Fabric8 perspective, by selecting Window > Open Perspective > Other... > Fabric8, or clicking new perspective button in the Perspectives tab, and selecting Fabric8.

Related topics

Specifying and Connecting to a Fabric