Chapter 9. Conquering the CLI

In this chapter, you will learn the following recipes:

  • Invoking server stop, start, and reload
  • Invoking server group stop, start, restart, and reload
  • Creating a server group
  • Creating a server
  • Managing an application – deploy, undeploy

Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn how to use the CLI to alter the system's state. That is, changing different settings such as deployments and creating new servers. In the previous chapter, we saw how to grab information out of the CLI. The CLI also provides a method to execute the commands outside it, by specifying the WildFly to connect to and the command to execute.

Furthermore, WildFly provides you with an HTTP API, which can be used to perform actions and to retrieve information ...

Get WildFly Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.