Deploying an Application to Pivotal Cloud Foundry through Spinnaker and then invoking a resize operation

In this post we show a basic deployment to Cloud foundry in fact Pivotal Cloud foundry 2.4 using spinnaker 1.13.0.

Assumptions:

1. Configured a Cloud Foundry provider as shown below

spinnaker@myspinnaker-spinnaker-halyard-0:/workdir$ hal config provider cloudfoundry account add pez208 --user admin --password mypassword --api api.system.run.myenv.io --environment dev --appsManagerURI https://apps.system.run.myenv.io
+ Get current deployment
  Success
+ Add the pez208 account
  Success
Problems in default.provider.cloudfoundry:
- WARNING To be able to link server groups to CF Metrics a URI is
  required: pez208

+ Successfully added account pez208 for provider cloudfoundry.

2. Enable cloud foundry provider

spinnaker@myspinnaker-spinnaker-halyard-0:/workdir$ hal config provider cloudfoundry enable
+ Get current deployment
  Success
+ Edit the cloudfoundry provider
  Success

+ Successfully enabled cloudfoundry

3. Run "hal deploy apply"

spinnaker@myspinnaker-spinnaker-halyard-0:/workdir$ hal deploy apply
+ Get current deployment
  Success
+ Prep deployment
  Success
+ Preparation complete... deploying Spinnaker
+ Get current deployment
  Success
+ Apply deployment
  Success
+ Deploy spin-clouddriver
  Success
+ Deploy spin-front50
  Success
+ Deploy spin-orca
  Success
+ Deploy spin-deck
  Success
+ Deploy spin-echo
  Success
+ Deploy spin-gate
  Success
+ Deploy spin-igor
  Success
+ Deploy spin-rosco
  Success
+ Run `hal deploy connect` to connect to Spinnaker.

IN this demo I can simply going to deploy my artifact sitting within my GitHub repo using a HTTP endpoiunt so for that will need to enable HTTP artifact support in Spinnaker as shown below

$ hal config features edit --artifacts true
$ hal config artifact http enable
$ hal config artifact http account add apples-http
$ hal deploy apply

Steps:

1. Lets create a new application called "pastest" as shown below. Be sure to select "CloudFoundry" provider.

2. Click "Create"

3. Click on "Create Server group"

4. Fill in the fields as shown below. In this example I am using the following

• Account "pez208" which was the cloud foundry provider name we used above
• Region is basically the CF space we will deploy into
• HTTP artifact which I enabled called "apples-http".
• Fully qualified path to my JAR file I wish to deploy
• Form based manifest settings to define my application deployment settings

5. Click "Create"

6. Verify your application is going through the deploy phase as shown in the dialog

7. Oncer complete we can see our deployed application in Pivotal Cloud Foundry Applications Manager as shown below.

8. Now if we return to the Spinnaker UI we will see various views of what we just deployed as follows

Server Group Main Page

Load Balancer Page

Instance Page

9. Now let's actually scale our application to 2 instances rather than just a single instance. To do that lets click the "Resize Option" in the "Server Group Page" as shown below

10. In the dialog which appears set "Resize to" to "2"

11. Click "Submit"

12. Return to Pivotal Cloud Foundry Applications Manager and verify we now have 2 instances of our application as shown below

13. This will also be reflected on Spinnaker UI as well

More Information

Cloud Foundry - Cloud Provider
https://www.spinnaker.io/reference/providers/cf/

Two nice Pivotal Container Service (PKS) CLI commands I use very often

Having always created multiple PKS clusters at times I forget the configuration of my K8S clusters and this command comes in very handy

First lets list those clusters we have created with PKS

papicella@papicella:~$ pks clusters

Name    Plan Name  UUID                                  Status     Action
lemons  small      5c19c39e-88ae-4e06-a1cf-050b517f1b9c  succeeded  CREATE
banana  small      7c3ab1b3-a25c-498e-8179-9a14336004ff  succeeded  CREATE

Now lets see how many master nodes and how many worker nodes actually exist in my cluster using "pks cluster {name} --json"

papicella@papicella:~$ pks cluster banana --json

{
   "name": "banana",
   "plan_name": "small",
   "last_action": "CREATE",
   "last_action_state": "succeeded",
   "last_action_description": "Instance provisioning completed",
   "uuid": "7c3ab1b3-a25c-498e-8179-9a14336004ff",
   "kubernetes_master_ips": [
      "10.0.0.1"
   ],
   "parameters": {
      "kubernetes_master_host": "banana.yyyy.hhh.pivotal.io",
      "kubernetes_master_port": 8443,
      "kubernetes_worker_instances": 3
   }
}

One final PKS CLI command I use often when creating my clusters is the --wait option so I know when it's done creating the cluster rather then continually checking using "pks cluster {name}"

papicella@papicella:~$ pks create-cluster cluster1 -e cluster1.run.yyyy.hhh.pivotal.io -p small -n 4 --wait

More Information

https://docs.pivotal.io/runtimes/pks/1-3/cli/index.html

Spring Initializr new look and feel

Head to http://start.spring.io and the new look and feel UI is now available