Hi Nanduni,

Wouldn't writing a custom buildpack (for each product) [1] allow us to
deploy a given artifact on CloudFoundry? We'd have to write the detect,
compile, and release scripts separately.

Is there any difference between that approach and using Docker images?

[1] - https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/custom.html


Regards,
Chamila de Alwis
Committer and PMC Member - Apache Stratos
Software Engineer | WSO2 | +94772207163
Blog: code.chamiladealwis.com



On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Nanduni Nimalsiri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> By now, I have managed to deploy applications in Cloud Foundry via,
> 1. bosh-lite ( a vagrant VM that comes with pre-installed BOSH server or
> Director)
> 2. Hosted solutions such as Pivotal web services (pivotal.io)
>
> I deployed Tomcat server in Cloud Foundry as well. But I was not able to
> deploy Docker in Cloud Foundry via Diego. It gives me some errors regarding
> admin permissions.
> I found that there are Heroku buildpacks on Docker and they are perfectly
> compatible with Cloud Foundry too.
>
> [1] https://github.com/duglin/cf-docker
> [1] is another buildpack that supports Docker, but there are several
> limitations as this buildpack requires that you have a Docker host
> available for it to access, and you need to also have a Docker container
> manager app (cf-docker) running that will sync the Cloud Foundry runtime
> with the Docker containers.
>
> My blog in the following link will be useful for any one to get an idea on
> deploying applications in Cloud Foundry.
> http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
>
> Best regards,
> Nanduni.
>
>
>
> *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
> Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
> email : [email protected]
> blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
> mobile : +94714114256
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Malmee Weerasinghe <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Imesh,
>>
>> I have done a background research on Cloud Foundry and the blog under the
>> following link contains the documentation of the research. I will include
>> more posts on deploying Cloud Foundry with bosh lite and running simple
>> applications on it, as I have studied so far.
>>
>>
>> http://malmeeweerasinghe.blogspot.com/2016/02/introduction-to-cloud-foundry.html
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Imesh Gunaratne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Shall we summarize the research work we have done so far and our
>>> approach towards $subject?
>>>
>>> I know some of us have already done below, it might be better to
>>> document this:
>>>
>>>    - PaaS features of CF
>>>    - Steps for setting up a local environment with Vagrant
>>>    - Running a hello world sample
>>>    - Running a JVM using a standalone framework
>>>
>>> Next we might need to check following:
>>>
>>> 1. The ability to use Docker on CF
>>> 2. The process of creating and managing Warden container images
>>> 3. Find a mechanism to discover the member list of a cluster and
>>> implement a Carbon membership scheme
>>> 4. Create standalone frameworks for Carbon products
>>> 5. Find a way to apply patches and software updates
>>> 6. Find a way to implement a centralized logging solution
>>> 7. Check whether there is a way to monitor the health of the containers
>>> (similar to cAdvisor and Cockpit UI in Kubernetes)
>>> 8. Create artifacts required for deploying a Carbon server on CF and
>>> prepare a guideline.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://github.com/wso2/kubernetes-artifacts/tree/master/common/kubernetes-membership-scheme
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Imesh Gunaratne*
>>> Senior Technical Lead
>>> WSO2 Inc: http://wso2.com
>>> T: +94 11 214 5345 M: +94 77 374 2057
>>> W: http://imesh.io
>>> Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Malmee Weerasinghe
>> WSO2 Intern
>> mobile : (+94)* 71 7601905* |   email :   <[email protected]>
>> [email protected]
>>
>
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