CF Workshop Service Broker Lab

Intro

This lab will guide you through:

• deploying a Service Broker as an app to Cloud Foundry

• registering the Broker with the Cloud Controller

• making the single plan in the catalog ``public''

• creating an instance of a service

• pushing and binding a test app to that service

• testing the app’s interaction with the service

The Service Broker for this lab is for a service called HashMap as a Service (HaaSh). It wraps a minimal REST API around a Java HashMap implementation, and each service creation event results in a newly allocated Map.

Steps

1. Clone the haash-broker repo:

   $ git clone https://github.com/mstine/haash-broker.git
   $ cd haash-broker

2. Build the project using Gradle Wrapper:

   $ ./gradlew assemble

3. Ensure that you have targeted your bosh-lite Cloud Foundry deployment, and push the app:

   $ cf push -m 512m -p build/libs/haash-broker-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar haash-broker

4. Once the app is running, register the broker with the Cloud Controller (substitute the route for your broker app):

   $ cf create-service-broker haash-broker warreng natedogg http://haash-broker.54.235.203.95.xip.io

5. Next, we need to make the service plan public, as all plans start private by default. This step is a little more manual than the others. First, you need to gain access to the Service Plan GUID:

   $ cf curl /v2/service_plans -X 'GET'
   {
     "total_results": 1,
     "total_pages": 1,
     "prev_url": null,
     "next_url": null,
     "resources": [
       {
         "metadata": {
           "guid": "ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b",
           "url": "/v2/service_plans/ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b",
           "created_at": "2014-06-26T19:59:02+00:00",
           "updated_at": "2014-06-26T20:00:50+00:00"
         },
         "entity": {
           "name": "basic",
           "free": true,
           "description": "Basic Plan",
           "service_guid": "d458ac57-993a-40cf-925c-d56934a0e494",
           "extra": null,
           "unique_id": "1",
           "public": false,
           "service_url": "/v2/services/d458ac57-993a-40cf-925c-d56934a0e494",
           "service_instances_url": "/v2/service_plans/ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b/service_instances"      }    }
     ]
   }

   You find the Plan GUID at resources.metadata.guid. Next you’ll send a request to update it:

   $ $ cf curl /v2/service_plans/ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b -X 'PUT' -d '{"public":true}'
   {
     "metadata": {
       "guid": "ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b",
       "url": "/v2/service_plans/ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b",
       "created_at": "2014-06-26T19:59:02+00:00",
       "updated_at": "2014-06-27T13:21:50+00:00"
     },
     "entity": {
       "name": "basic",
       "free": true,
       "description": "Basic Plan",
       "service_guid": "d458ac57-993a-40cf-925c-d56934a0e494",
       "extra": null,
       "unique_id": "1",
       "public": true,
       "service_url": "/v2/services/d458ac57-993a-40cf-925c-d56934a0e494",
       "service_instances_url": "/v2/service_plans/ec1da994-eba0-4f50-9453-e00b155a938b/service_instances"
     }
   }

6. You should now be able to see your service in the marketplace:

   $ cf marketplace
   Getting services from marketplace in org default / space development as admin...
   OK
   
   service   plans   description
   HaaSh     basic   HaaSh - HashMap as a Service

7. Next, create an instance of your service:

   $ cf create-service HaaSh basic my-hash

8. Now it’s time to push and bind to the client app. First clone the haash-client repo:

   $ git clone https://github.com/mstine/haash-client.git
   $ cd haash-client

9. Build the project using Gradle Wrapper:

   $ ./gradlew assemble

10. We’ll use a CF application manifest to take care of our metadata, including binding to the HaaSh service. It’s already in the project, but you can see it reproduced here:

    applications:
    - name: haash-client
      memory: 512M
      path: build/libs/haash-client-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
      services:
      - my-hash

    This allows a simpler push experience:

    $ cf push

11. Once the application is running, you can test it:

    $ curl haash-client.54.235.203.95.xip.io/HaaSh/foo -d '{"value":"bar"}' -X PUT
    {}
    
    $ curl haash-client.54.235.203.95.xip.io/HaaSh/foo -X GET
    {"value":"bar"}

12. Congratulations! You’ve completed the lab. Don’t forget to spend some time looking at the source code for haash-broker and compare what you see to the [Service Broker API Documentation](http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/api.html).