Testing network connectivity from Cloud Foundry Application Instances

This app below simply tests whether a host:port is accessible from a CF app instance. For example can my application instance access my Oracle Database Instance running outside of PCF given application instances need network access to the database database for example.

You can use bosh2 ssh to get to the Diego Cells if you have access to the environment or even "cf ssh" if that has been enabled.

GitHub URL:

https://github.com/papicella/cloudfoundry-socket-test

Success

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ http http://pas-cf-sockettest.cfapps.io/www.google.com.au/80
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 81
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:38:33 GMT
X-Vcap-Request-Id: 8fd05c77-f680-4966-558b-c45e71825fa0

{
    "errorMessage": "N/A",
    "hostname": "www.google.com.au",
    "port": "80",
    "res": "SUCCESS"
}

Failure

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~$ http http://pas-cf-sockettest.cfapps.io/10.0.0.10/8080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 110
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:52:18 GMT
X-Vcap-Request-Id: 91ad2359-7d95-49c6-4538-548e480b7820

{
    "errorMessage": "Connection refused (Connection refused)",
    "hostname": "10.0.0.10",
    "port": "8080",
    "res": "FAILED"
}