Reference to system properties specified using JAVA_OPTS_APPEND fails startup of OpenShift pod for JBoss EAP

Environment

• Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.3 (Container image for OpenShift)

Issue

• Configuration adds -Dproperty=value to JAVA_OPTS_APPEND

• The property/value is expected to be accessible for reference within standalone-openshift.xml and application code in the runtime JVM

  • This was working with the JBoss EAP 7.2 container images for OpenShift

• During startup of JBoss EAP 7.3 container images for OpenShift, pod failure occurs prior to starting the runtime JVM

  ERROR Error applying /tmp/cli-configuration-script-<random_numeric_value_here>.cli CLI script.
  

Resolution

• As a workaround (when no customization via standard environment based integration points - e.g. datasources specified using DB_SERVICE_PREFIX_MAPPING - is required), pre-processing by the embedded server can be disabled using a custom version of the /opt/eap/bin/openshift-launch.sh with the configure_server step commented out.

        ...
        function runServer() {
          ...
          # configure_server # <= COMMENTED OUT THIS LINE
          ...
        }
        ...
  

• This issue will be addressed in a future release¹.

Root Cause

This is a known defect (This content is not included.CLOUD-4001).

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