Pivotal CF + Drupal

Introduction

Pivotal CF™ is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. It delivers an always-available, turnkey experience for scaling and updating PaaS on the private cloud. Pivotal CF Elastic Runtime Service provides a complete, scalable runtime environment, extensible to most modern frameworks or languages running on Linux.

Drupal is an open source content management platform supporting a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. For more information, see the Drupal website at http://drupal.org/, and join the Drupal community at http://drupal.org/community.

Installation

###Installation Prerequisites

• Pivotal CF v1.2 or greater
• Pivotal Riak-CS service deployed
• Pivotal MySQL service deployed
• PHP/Varnish buildpack installed, found here - https://github.com/azwickey-pivotal/cf-php-build-pack

###Installation instructions:

• Create services required by Drupal

$ cf create-service p-mysql 100mb-dev drupal-db
$ cf create-service p-riakcs developer drupal-s3

• Push applications to Cloudfoundry

$ cf push

• Update the deployment manifest with environment-specifc values

First retrieve the S3 bucket created for the drupal application. This can be obtained with the CLI command cf env once the service instance is bound to the application. The bucket name is the last part of the uri credential for the p-riakcs service.

```
$ cf env drupal
System-Provided:
{
  "VCAP_SERVICES": {
    "p-riakcs":[
      {
        "name":"drupal-s3",
        "label":"p-riakcs",
        "tags":[
          "riak-cs",
          "s3"
        ],
        "plan":"developer",
        "credentials":{
          "uri":"https://XHCE0E1RAVBI99_FJL_5:7AdvdTSBiYwmySKOkoKCyGFkAVHxuaeBg0xTig%3D%3D@p-riakcs.cloudfoundry.dyndns.org/service-instance-423086ed-9167-4026-add2-d734bfb0b2e5",
          "access_key_id":"XHCE0E1RAVBI99_FJL_5",
          "secret_access_key":"7AdvdTSBiYwmySKOkoKCyGFkAVHxuaeBg0xTig=="
        }
      }
    ],
    "p-mysql":[
      {
        "name":"drupal-db",
        "label":"p-mysql",
        "tags":[
          "mysql",
          "relational"
        ],
        "plan":"100mb-dev",
        "credentials":{
          "hostname":"10.0.0.103",
          "port":3306,
          "name":"cf_27742bc8_369a_4050_ad53_e85038aa5a35",
          "username":"FEotz981XvDEQXLI",
          "password":"lAXIntesmrowz1hb",
          "uri":"mysql://FEotz981XvDEQXLI:lAXIntesmrowz1hb@10.0.0.103:3306/cf_27742bc8_369a_4050_ad53_e85038aa5a35?reconnect=true",
          "jdbcUrl":"jdbc:mysql://FEotz981XvDEQXLI:lAXIntesmrowz1hb@10.0.0.103:3306/cf_27742bc8_369a_4050_ad53_e85038aa5a35"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
```

Next, input this value into S3_BUCKET env variable in the deployment manifest, manifest.yml. Additionally, update the CF_FQND variable to reflect your cloudfoundry domain.

 env:
   S3_BUCKET: YOUR S3 BUCKET HERE
   CF_FQDN: YOUR CF DOMAIN HERE

• Execute a 2nd application push so that your updated deployment manifest variables take affect.

$ cf push

• Drupal must address Riak-CS with the format of http://$BUCKET_NAME.$CF_DOMAIN. In order to support this format we must add a Cloudfoundry route to the s3 proxy application that represents our bucket name.

$ cf map-route s3 cloudfoundry.dyndns.org -n service-instance-423086ed-9167-4026-add2-d734bfb0b2e5

• Log into Drupal and enable the S3FS module from the modules menu. Verify that the S3FS Drupal module can connect to Riak-CS by navigating to Configuration < S3 File System Settings.
• Configure filesystem default download type to "Amazon Simple Storage Service".
• Configure a Drupal content type the contains a field that must be stored on a filesystem, such as an image field, to use "S3 File System" as the default upload location.