If you're already working with Docker images then BOSH is a great way to put them into production. Deploy a complete system on Day 1 and have confidence with Day 2 operational support: resurrection of missing servers, resize host machines, resize disks, update host servers with CVE patches, and much more.
This BOSH release can help. See an example below of a host machine running several Docker containers, all backed by a persistent disk. Also see how to add a service.yml deployment file to your Dockerfile repository to make life easy for your users.
It can also be used to dynamically provision Docker containers running databases and message buses with an API that is Open Service Broker API compatible.
Finally, you can deploy & manage a cluster of Docker Swarm nodes.
Related links:
- CI
- docker-broker-deployment (see below)
This BOSH release includes a cf-containers-broker job provides an API that can provision new Docker containers running PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis/whatever on demand. The API is Open Service Broker API compatible, which means you can register it with Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and more.
Allow users to dynamically provision persistent services, running in Docker containers, using the cf Cloud Foundry CLI:
The example usage is MySQL 5.6: each provisioned service is running inside a dedicated Docker container. The service provides credentials that look like:
$ cf create-service mysql56 free mysql1
$ cf create-service-key mysql1 mysql1-key
$ cf service-key mysql1 mysql1-key
{
"dbname": "wcfh1voergicdt9n",
"hostname": "10.244.33.0",
"password": "mlasvy5fpq9zx8mb",
"port": "32770",
"ports": {
"3306/tcp": "32770"
},
"uri": "mysql://duawbyody1ashrgr:mlasvy5fpq9zx8mb@10.244.33.0:32770/wcfh1voergicdt9n",
"username": "duawbyody1ashrgr"
}
See docker-broker-deployment for a dedicated repo that is all about deploying an Open Service Broker API compatible cluster that runs your favourite services inside on-demand Docker containers.
This repo is similar/same as manifests/broker folder, which is used for the CI test harness.
Run a static set of Docker containers, backed by a persistent disk:
See manifests/README.md for deployment instructions.
Make it super easy for your users to deploy your Docker image upon BOSH by including a bosh-service.yml file in the same repo.
Known repos that include a BOSH manifest:
For example:
git clone https://github.com/frodenas/docker-redis
cd docker-redis
bosh2 deploy bosh-redis.yml --vars-store creds.yml
Deploy and manage a cluster of Docker Swarm.
See manifests/README.md for deployment instructions.
This project was original created many years ago, and overtime some of the community Docker images have been maintained; and some have not. All of them have been retained in the manifests/broker/services as examples. If you are excited by one of them but it is a very old version, create an Issue, and we'll help you upgrade it.
See https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/cf-containers-broker for more information about how services are configured, how to pass properties into Docker images, how credentials are randomly generated, etc.