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How to Deploy OpenAM

OpenAM is a market leading open-source access management, entitlements, and federation server platform.

As with any Java applications and frameworks, this one is very easy to deploy to the PaaS! Here’s how.

Create Environment

1. Log into the platform dashboard.

2. Click the Create environment button at the top left:

create environment

3. In the Environment topology window, choose your application server (for example, Tomcat) and specify your environment name, for example, OpenAM, then click Create.

environment wizard

In a minute your environment will be created.

environment for OpenAM created

Upload Java Package

1. Navigate to ForgeRock web site and click on Download Stack.

OpenAM download

2. Select OpenAM, fill in the required form and copy to clipboard the URL of the latest OpenAM release (WAR archive).

OpenAM WAR package

3. Go back to the platform dashboard, click Upload and paste the URL you have just copied.

upload OpenAM

4. Once the package is in the platform, deploy it to the environment you have just created.

deploy OpenAM

Note: Do not deploy OpenAM to the ROOT context (otherwise you will get configuration errors later on).

5. Once the deployment is successfully finished, launch the application in web browser.

OpenAM open in browser

Configure OpenAM

1. Select Create New Configuration in Configuration Options window.

2. Specify the default user password that you want to have and click Next.

set OpenAM password

3. In the Server Settings window, confirm the server URL, cookie domain, platform locate, and configuration directory settings.

OpenAM server settings

4. At the Configuration Data Store Settings step, select the First Instance and confirm configuration store details.

OpenAM configuration store

5. In User Store Settings, select OpenAM User Data Store. You can ignore the warning message and go ahead.

OpenAM site configuration

6. Type the password for the Default Policy Agent User different from the default user password.

OpenAM agent information

7. View the Summary. If the information is correct, click Create Configuration.

In few minutes the configuration process will be finished.

Now you can use OpenAM in your applications in the PaaS!

What’s next?