dmutreja/lab-instructions

Workshop

Setup

• Download and install Cloud Foundry CLI from Cloud Foundry CLI repository
• Verify CLI is running

 $ cf --version 

• Ensure you have git installed and running on your laptop. You may use instructions here.
• Get your API server URL, username and password from the lab organizer

Exercise 1 -- Deploy cf-spring app

Goal

Deploy a sample spring app to Cloud Foundry running on Oracle Cloud Infrastucture using cf client.

Steps

Login

• Target the API server

  $ cf api --skip-ssl-validation  <API server URL>

• Login

  $ cf login -u <username> -p <password>

• Verify targeted to an org

 $ cf target

Download and Deploy a sample application

• Download

 $ git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry-samples/cf-sample-app-spring

• Deploy

 $ cd cf-sample-app-spring
 $ cf push

Find application URI and connect to it

• Get list of deployed applications

 $ cf apps

• Show details about the cf-spring application deployed in the previous step

$ cf app cf-spring

• Find application URI

• Launch browser and connect to that URI

Exercise 2 -- Scale the application horizontally

Steps

Scale

• Use your favorite editor to edit manifest.yml and the change the number of instances to deploy. Change

applications:
- name: cf-spring
  ...
  instances: 1
  ...

to

applications:
- name: cf-spring
  ... 
  instances: 3
  ...

• Redeploy the application

$ cf push 

• Verify the number of instances running

$ cf app cf-spring

Congratulations, you've successfully completed this exercise!

Exercise-3 (Optional)

Goal

Learn how to upgrade a running application without incurring downtime.

Steps

https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-green.html