Automation scripts to package and publish Hazelcast and Hazelcast Enterprise as DEB, RPM and Homebrew packages.

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

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

NOTE: The same steps apply to hazelcast and hazelcast-enterprise packages

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

Add repository:

sudo apt-get install -y --no-upgrade wget gpg coreutils \
  && wget -qO - https://repository.hazelcast.com/api/gpg/key/public | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hazelcast-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
  && echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hazelcast-archive-keyring.gpg] https://repository.hazelcast.com/debian stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list \
  && sudo apt update

NOTE: If you want to stay on latest patch version for a particular minor release you can replace main component with x.y, e.g. 5.1.

sudo apt-get install -y --no-upgrade wget gpg coreutils \
  && wget -qO - https://repository.hazelcast.com/api/gpg/key/public | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hazelcast-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
  && echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hazelcast-archive-keyring.gpg] https://repository.hazelcast.com/debian stable 5.1" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list \
  && sudo apt update

Install Hazelcast (community edition)

sudo apt install hazelcast

or Hazelcast Enterprise (license required)

sudo apt install hazelcast-enterprise

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

Add repository

# install necessary tool
sudo yum -y install wget \
  && 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

Install Hazelcast (community edition)

sudo yum install hazelcast

or Hazelcast Enterprise (license required)

sudo yum install hazelcast-enterprise

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:

Add repository

brew tap hazelcast/hz

Install Hazelcast (community edition)

brew install hazelcast

or Hazelcast Enterprise (license required)

brew install hazelcast-enterprise

Use default commands of your package manager to perform the upgrade of the installed hazelcast package (e.g. hazelcast, hazelcast-enterprise,hazelcast-snapshot,hazelcast-beta,hazelcast-5.0 etc.)

NOTE: Upgrades from 5.2021.x.y to newer 5.x.y versions are not supported. Remove the older package first and then install the newer one.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install <installed-hazelcast-package>

sudo yum update <installed-hazelcast-package>

brew install <installed-hazelcast-package>

NOTE: The same steps apply to hazelcast and hazelcast-enterprise packages

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

sudo apt install hazelcast=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

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

sudo yum install hazelcast-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

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

brew install [email protected]

You need to replace stable with snapshot/beta in the repository definition to use Hazelcast snapshots.

Run the following to install the latest snapshot version:

Add repository

wget -qO - https://repository.hazelcast.com/api/gpg/key/public | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hazelcast-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hazelcast-archive-keyring.gpg] https://repository.hazelcast.com/debian snapshot main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update

Install Hazelcast Enterprise (license required)

sudo apt install hazelcast-enterprise

You need to replace stable with snapshot/beta in the repository definition to use Hazelcast snapshots.

Run the following to install the latest snapshot version:

Add repository

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

Install Hazelcast Enterprise (license required)

sudo yum install hazelcast-enterprise

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

Run the following to install the latest snapshot version of Hazelcast Enterprise:

brew tap hazelcast/hz
brew install hazelcast-enterprise-snapshot

Search for available versions using the following command:

brew search hazelcast

After successful installation all commands from Hazelcast distribution bin directory should be on path.

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

hz start

To see additional options, run the following:

hz start --help

NOTE: hz command is not available in versions 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, use hz-start instead.