Hazelcast Management Center Packaging

Automation scripts to package Hazelcast Management center as DEB, RPM or Homebrew package.

Requirements

• To install Hazelcast via a package manager your system must support either yum, apt or Homebrew.
• JRE 8+ is required.

Install latest stable version of Hazelcast Management Center

This version is suitable for most users of Hazelcast Management Center. When unsure, use this version.

Install with apt

You can find the Debian packages for Hazelcast Management Center at Hazelcast's Debian repository. Run the following commands to install the package using apt:

wget -qO - https://repository.hazelcast.com/api/gpg/key/public | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repository.hazelcast.com/debian stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install hazelcast-management-center

Install with yum/dnf

The RPM packages for Hazelcast Management Center are kept at Hazelcast's RPM repository. Please run the following commands to install the package using yum/dnf:

wget https://repository.hazelcast.com/rpm/stable/hazelcast-rpm-stable.repo -O hazelcast-rpm-stable.repo
sudo mv hazelcast-rpm-stable.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo yum install hazelcast-management-center

Install with Homebrew

To install with Homebrew, you first need to tap the hazelcast/hz repository. Once you’ve tapped the repo, you can use brew install to install:

brew tap hazelcast/hz
brew install hazelcast-management-center

Upgrading

Use default commands of your package manager to perform the upgrade of the installed hazelcast-management-center package

Upgrade with apt

sudo apt update
sudo apt install hazelcast-management-center

Upgrade with yum/dnf/microdnf

sudo yum update hazelcast-management-center

Upgrade with Homebrew

brew install hazelcast-management-center

Installing an older version and preventing upgrades

Install an older version with apt

After adding the repository run the following to install e.g. version 5.0.1:

sudo apt install hazelcast-management-center=5.0.1

To keep the particular version during apt upgrade hold the package at the installed version by running the following:

sudo apt-mark hold hazelcast-management-center

Install an older version with yum

After adding the repository run the following to install e.g. version 5.0.1:

sudo yum install hazelcast-management-center-5.0.1

To keep the particular version during yum update hold the package at the installed version by running the following:

sudo yum -y install yum-versionlock
sudo yum versionlock hazelcast-management-center

Install an older version with Homebrew

Run the following to install e.g. version 5.0.1:

brew install [email protected]

Installing a SNAPSHOT version

Install a SNAPSHOT version with apt

You need to replace stable with snapshot in the repository definition to use Hazelcast Management Center snapshots.

Run the following to install the latest snapshot version:

wget -qO - https://repository.hazelcast.com/api/gpg/key/public | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://repository.hazelcast.com/debian snapshot main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install hazelcast-management-center

Install a SNAPSHOT version with yum

You need to replace stable with snapshot in the repository definition to use Hazelcast Management Center snapshots.

Run the following to install the latest snapshot version:

wget https://repository.hazelcast.com/rpm/snapshot/hazelcast-rpm.repo -O hazelcast-snapshot-rpm.repo
sudo mv hazelcast-snapshot-rpm.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo yum install hazelcast-management-center

Install a SNAPSHOT version with Homebrew

You need to add snapshot suffix to the package version when installing a snapshot.

Run the following to install the latest 6.0-SNAPSHOT version:

brew tap hazelcast/hz
brew install [email protected]

Search for available versions using the following command:

brew search hazelcast-management-center

Running Hazelcast Management Center

After successful installation the commands from Hazelcast Management Center distribution bin directory should be on path.

Run the following command to start a Hazelcast Management Center with the default configuration:

hz-mc start

To see additional options, run the following:

hz-mc start --help

NOTE: hz-mc command is not available in versions 5.0-5.0.4, use start.sh from the installation directory instead (this file is not linked to /usr/bin/ because of likely conflicts).