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Cloud Foundry for Developers

By : Rahul Kumar Jain, Rick Farmer, Wu
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Cloud Foundry for Developers

By: Rahul Kumar Jain, Rick Farmer, Wu

Overview of this book

Cloud Foundry is the open source platform to deploy, run, and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is growing rapidly and a leading product that provides PaaS (Platform as a Service) capabilities to enterprise, government, and organizations around the globe. Giants like Dell Technologies, GE, IBM, HP and the US government are using Cloud Foundry innovate faster in a rapidly changing world. Cloud Foundry is a developer’s dream. Enabling them to create modern applications that can leverage the latest thinking, techniques and capabilities of the cloud, including: ? DevOps ? Application Virtualization ? Infrastructure agnosticism ? Orchestrated containers ? Automation ? Zero downtime upgrades ? A/B deployment ? Quickly scaling applications out or in This book takes readers on a journey where they will first learn the Cloud Foundry basics, including how to deploy and scale a simple application in seconds. Readers will build their knowledge of how to create highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications and microservices running on Cloud Foundry. Readers will learn how to integrate their application with services provided by Cloud Foundry and with those external to Cloud Foundry. Readers will learn how to structure their Cloud Foundry environment with orgs and spaces. After that, we’ll discuss aspects of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), monitoring and logging. Readers will also learn how to enable health checks, troubleshoot and debug applications. By the end of this book, readers will have hands-on experience in performing various deployment and scaling tasks. Additionally, they will have an understanding of what it takes to migrate and develop applications for Cloud Foundry.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Service brokers


By now, you may be thinking, how can one get their service published in the marketplace and how does it all work together? The key component to this is through a service broker. A service broker is responsible for most, if not all, aspects of the life cycle of services in the marketplace. They are responsible for publishing the services and plans offered, performing service provisioning when requested, binding applications to service instances and, potentially, vice-versa when unbinding and deprovisioning. Service brokers are deployed within an Org and be configured to be a restricted space. An implementation of a service broker is an application that implements the service broker API. 

Structure of services on a service broker

Before we proceed further, let's discuss the structure of services on a service broker. A service broker publishes a list of services that it offers. For every service that is published, there must be at least one associated plan for that corresponding...