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Cloud Foundry for Developers

You're reading from Cloud Foundry for Developers Deploy, manage, and orchestrate cloud-native applications with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788391443

Length 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Ruby

Tools

Cloud Foundry

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

David Wu

Rick Farmer

Rahul Kumar Jain

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Cloud Foundry Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Cloud Foundry CLI and Apps Manager

3. Getting Started with PCF Dev

4. Users, Orgs, Spaces, and Roles

5. Architecting and Building Apps for the Cloud

6. Deploying Apps to Cloud Foundry

7. Microservices and Worker Applications

8. Services and Service Brokers

9. Buildpacks

10. Troubleshooting Applications in Cloud Foundry

11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

User-provided services

So far, we understand how to instantiate a new service from the marketplace and we understand how applications work with bound services through the VCAP_SERVICES JSON object in the application environment variable. We will now visit user-provided services. With user-provided services, a developer is given the freedom to define a service instance that has custom service configuration data fields that their application will read in order to identify and connect to the resource. This is the simplest and least amount of work required to get started with connecting to a service that is external to your Cloud Foundry platform; however, be aware that user-provided services, once they are created, are service instances and are scoped within a space in Cloud Foundry. An application in another space will not see the user-provided service instance.

The command to create a user-provided service is cf create-user-provided-service <INSTANCE_NAME> [-p <CREDENTIALS>]....

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Authors (3)

Rick Farmer

Rick Farmer

Rick Farmer is one of the founders and a leader of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions enterprise consulting and delivery team at Pivotal. Over the last two decades, he established a track record of navigating complex organizational technology and services to deliver breathtaking results for mission-critical initiatives at over 70 of the world's most recognizable companies and government entities. Many of the engagements he has anchored have won various personal and project awards. Rick unlocks innovation and business value using Cloud Foundry to inject enterprise agility into even the most challenging environments by aligning digital transformation, technical and business opportunities. He enjoys speaking at conferences on subjects ranging from Cloud Foundry to Data Science to Digital Transformation to Agility in the Enterprise. Since 1997, Rick has surfed tropical events hitting the Texas Gulf Coast. He has a data science visualization project inducted into the Visualization Hall of Fame at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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Rahul Kumar Jain

Rahul Kumar Jain

Rahul Kumar has got more than 10 years of experience in the space of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. His expertise lies in the machine learning and deep learning arena. He is known to be a seasoned professional in the area of Business Consulting and Business Problem Solving, fuelled by his proficiency in machine learning and deep learning. He has been associated with organizations such as Mercedes-Benz Research and Development (India), Fidelity Investments, Royal Bank of Scotland among others. He has accumulated a diverse exposure through industries like BFSI, telecom and automobile. Rahul has also got papers published in IIM and IISc Journals.

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Wu

Wu

Cheng-Yang Wu has been tackling infrastructure and system reliability since he received his master's degree in computer science from National Taiwan University. His laziness prompted him to master DevOps skills to maximize his efficiency at work so as to squeeze in writing code for fun. He enjoys cooking as it's just like working with software a perfect dish always comes from balanced flavors and fine-tuned tastes.

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