xebialabs-community / xld-cloud-foundry-plugin

Supports deployment to CloudFoundry

Preface

This document describes the functionality provided by the Cloud Foundry plugin.

See the XL Deploy Reference Manual for background information on XL Deploy and deployment concepts.

Overview

The Cloud Foundry plugin is a XL Deploy plugin that adds capability for deploying applications to a Cloud Foundry space.

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Requirements

• Requirements
  • XL Deploy 6.0.1+
  • XL Plugins
    • Database Plugin
  • Additional Runtime Libraries
    • hotfix-basestep-ctx-public.jar (should be put under the hotfix/plugins)..

Installation

Place the plugin JAR file into your SERVER_HOME/plugins directory. Make sure you have additional runtime libraries mentioned in the requirements section also installed in the correct directory.

Extract cloudfoundry/discoveryapp/index.php from the JAR and copy it to SERVER_HOME/ext/cloudfoundry/discoveryapp/index.php

Upgrade

• When upgrading from a version before 4.5.4 to a version >=4.5.4, be aware that the containers under Infrastructure have changed. From 4.5.4+ the Organizations, Spaces and Domains have been split into different CI. If you want to upgrade, you have to start from a clean repository (Delete all cf.Space instances), install 4.5.4+ and discover the domains and spaces.
• When upgrading to version 5.0.1+, be aware that most dependencies are packaged into the xldp plugin file.
• When upgrading to version 6.0.0+, the new api is being used from CloudFoundry.

Usage

1. Go to Repository - Infrastructure, create a new cf.Organization and discover the spaces and domains.
2. Create an environment under Repository - Environments
3. Create an application with cf.ServiceSpec and cf.War as deployables.
4. Start deploying

Types

• cf.Organization
• cf.Space
• cf.Domain
• cf.War
• cf.RouteSpec
• cf.ServiceSpec

xld-cloud-foundry-plugin's Issues

How to define a route?

Working on using this plugin to deploy to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. I was able to create and application package and deploy an application. However it does not have a mapped route, and I assumed it would create one with the supplied hostname and existing domain name.

Do you have to predefine the route? If so how is that accomplished.