[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19010?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugi... ] Ben Parees commented on JBIDE-19010: ------------------------------------ ok there are at least a couple possible things being requested here... 1) ability to just run an existing image with no buildconfig. I think this is what the original request was... "i have a DB image, i want to run it" - you can do that with an appropriate template, templates don't have to define buildconfigs/source-repos. In the "oc" CLI tool this is accomplished by running "oc new-app [someimage]", no template needed. Is the request here to do something similar? ie not require a template? 1b) i want to run that image, but link it to an existing set of components (I want to add a DB image/service to my existing running app) - no good way to do this today in openshift... basically you can create the DB service but then you have to copy the env variables (username/password) over to the existing app and redeploy it to pickup the new env. 2) ability to build my wars elsewhere and then use them to construct an app image - you can do this today w/ the EAP image. if your source repo contains wars (instead of, or in addition to, a pom.xml and source), the wars will be copied into the EAP deployments directory. the downside being you're putting binary artifacts in a git repo..no a best practice 3) ability to build my wars elsewhere and perform a build that consumes them without putting them in my repos. The build would then pull the wars from that "elsewhere" instead of from a git repo. we have a plan to support this soon but do not currently. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)