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Host Jakarta Starter on Eclipse Foundation Azure Subsription

The Eclipse Foundation official Jakarta EE Starter (https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/starter, https://start.jakarta.ee) is currently hosted on a Microsoft internal Azure subscription. This is not long-term sustainable. Each time we need to do a release, we need to chase someone at Microsoft. When the Starter was launched, the Eclipse Foundation did not have an Azure subscription. Using a Microsoft internal subscription was the only choice at the time.

As I undestrand from Geoge Adams, Chair at Adoptium, the Eclipse Foundation now has a fully sponsored Azure subscription. The Starter really should be hosted there.

I kindly request the following:

  • Create a new resource group `jakarta-starter-rg" in the Eclipse Foundation Azure subscription.
  • Create an App Service instance in that group for the starter named "jakarta-starter-ui". The instance should use the latest JBoss EAP and corresponding latest supported Java SE.
  • Enable Application Insights.
  • Set up access such that project committers can deploy from: https://ci.eclipse.org/starter/.
  • Redirect https://start.jakarta.ee to the instance once a successful first deployment is done.

Please let me know if you need anything else on this.

Thanks!