Deployment into cluster using Camel JBang Kubernetes plugin

March 17, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

Manage deployment lifecycle

There are extensions which allows you to manage your deployments (which are part of an Extension Pack for Apache Camel):

or you can use a power of Camel CLI described below.

Follow logs

You can use Camel CLI to obtain logs of current running integration. In terminal window execute:

jbang camel@apache/camel kubernetes logs --name=<name>

Remove deployment

To remove current integration, you can use also Camel CLI. In this case the command is:

jbang camel@apache/camel kubernetes delete --name=<name>

Version limitations

With Camel 4.8 and 4.9, the deployment in development mode is not working correctly. When using these versions, please remove the --dev from the list in settings: Extensions > Debug Adapter for Apache Camel -> Camel > Debug Adapter: Kubernetes Run Parameters.

Troubleshooting

For some releases of Camel (4.8.1 - 4.10) there could be problem when deleting deployments using Camel Jbang CLI, for details you can see reported upstream issue CAMEL-21388.

In that case please try with previous or newer version which was working better.

jbang -Dcamel.jbang.version=4.8.0 camel@apache/camel kubernetes delete --name=<name>

How to deploy into local Kubernetes cluster

By default, the deployment aims OpenShift cluster. In case you need to deploy into Kubernetes, there is a small modification needed:

  1. open Settings UI in VS Code
    • Linux/Windows - File > Preferences > Settings
    • macOS - Code > Settings... > Settings
  2. navigate to Extensions > Debug Adapter for Apache Camel
  3. modify setting Camel > Debug Adapter: Kubernetes Run Parameters as you can see on picture below

Deploy to Kubernetes cluster with Minikube

The picture describes how to deploy to local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube. You can use eg. also Kind. In that case, just change to --cluster-type=kind.

For more information see Camel Kubernetes plugin official documentation.