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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788391443
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Wu David Wu
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Rick Farmer Rick Farmer
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Rahul Kumar Jain Rahul Kumar Jain
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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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