Notifications Release

This release deploys the notification service as an application onto the CloudFoundry platform. A running CF is required to deploy. The application will be deployed into the system org, and the notifications-service space. The service registers itself at the address matching http://notifications.$CF_APP_DOMAIN.

Prerequisites

Running UAA. This requirement is typically satisfied by having CloudFoundry deployed.
Running MySQL instance. One option is to deploy the CloudFoundry MySQL release.

UAA Client

Notifications requires a UAA client to boot. The client can be created with the following properties:

scope: uaa.none
client_id: notifications
authorized_grant_types: client_credentials
authorities: scim.read,cloud_controller.admin

Bosh-lite

Tips

Use the latest notifications final release available, it generally contains bug-fixes.
Do not cut a release yourself unless you are very familiar wth bosh.

Steps

Add SMTP properties to ./bosh-lite/notifications-smtp-stub.yml file as follows:

properties:
  notifications:
    smtp:
      host: stmp.example.com
      port: 587
      user: my-user-name
      pass: my-password
      auth_mechanism: plain

Add DB properties to ./bosh-lite/notifications-db-stub.yml file for your running MySQL instance as follows:

properties:
  notifications:
    database:
      url: tcp://user:password@example.com:3306/dbname

Generate manifest:

./bosh-lite/make_manifest

Update the sub-modules of the release

./update

Upload latest final release from the /releases dir:

bosh upload release releases/notifications/notifications-X.yml

Deploy

bosh deploy
bosh run errand deploy-notifications

AWS

In addition to the stub file properties specified in the BOSH-Lite manifest, an AWS manifest stub file will require some extra infrastructure specific fields. Included below is an example:

infrastructure_properties:
  availability_zone: us-east-1a