Setup Cloud Foundry on Spinnaker

Overview

• Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.
• Cloud Foundry is used in companies where micro services are going cloud-native, to innovate and deliver a product with quality and elegance.

Prerequisites

• Your CF foundations’ API endpoints must be reachable from your installation of Spinnaker.

Add an Account

• While the Cloud Foundry provider is in alpha, the hal CLI does not have support for adding a CF account (this support will be added soon). Instead, you can use Halyard’s custom configuration to add a CF account to an existing installation of Spinnaker.
• On the machine running Halyard, Halyard creates a .hal directory.
• It contains a subdirectory for your Spinnaker deployment; by default, this subdirectory is called default.
• The deployment subdirectory itself contains a profiles subdirectory.
• Change to this subdirectory (an example path might be something like ~/.hal/default/profiles/) and within it, create the two files shown below.
• Create a file called settings-local.js, with the following contents:

      window.spinnakerSettings.providers.cloudfoundry = {
          defaults: {account:'my-cloudfoundry-account'}
      };
  

• This file tells Spinnaker’s Deck microservice to load functionality supporting CF.
• Create another file called clouddriver-local.yml, modifying the contents to include the relevant CF credentials:

      cloudfoundry:
          enabled: true
          accounts:
          - name: account-name
          user: 'account-user'
          password: 'account-password'
          api: api.foundation.path
          - name: optional-second-account
          api: api.optional.second.foundation.path
          user: 'second-account-user'
          password: 'second-account-password'
  

• This file gives Spinnaker account information with which to reach your CF instance.
• If you are setting up a new installation of Spinnaker, proceed to “Next steps” below.
• If you are working with an existing installation of Spinnaker, apply your changes:

      $ hal deploy apply
  

• Within a few minutes after applying your changes, you should be able to view the CF instance’s existing applications from your installation of Spinnaker.

Next steps

• Optionally, you can set up another cloud provider, but otherwise you’re ready to choose an environment in which to install Spinnaker.

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