This workshop will focus on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer persona. We will review details about how to push an application, scaling, services, logging and metrics.
- Focus on application code
- Easy and quick deployment; no lengthy exchanges with ops
- Greater control over deployment
- Quick and timely updates to production
- Creating applications that are optimized for the cloud
- Comfort with cf command line tools and deploying to pcf
- Increased familiarity with operations and the platform
- Ability to configure and provision services
- Understanding of using PCF for logging and metrics
- Session 1: Introduction by Shelter Insurance
- Session 2: Cloud Native, an Introduction
- Session 3: Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Session 4: PCF Services
- Labs
This is a loose schedule for the day. We will adjust as necessary based on our pace through the material.
The lectures for this workshop are generally light and are only intended to set the stage for the hands-on labs. The overwhelming majority of our time will be spent engaging with the technology directly!
- Pre-work
- Lab 1 - From Zero to Pushing Your First Application
- Lab 2 - Binding to Cloud Foundry Services
- Lab 3 - Operating Your Application
- Lab 4 - Monitoring Your Application
Start by downloading and installing the appropriate prerequisite tools.
- Cloud Foundry CLI to interact with a cloud foundry instance
- Apache Maven to build labs using Maven
- Gradle to build labs using Gradle
- Git Client to clone Github repo or download and unzip
- An IDE, like Spring Tool Suite or IntelliJ IDEA
- Java SE Development Kit
Next, download the course materials. This can be accomplished either through the GitHub website by downloading a repository zip and unzipping locally, or if you have Git installed, use the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/phopper-pivotal/PCF-Dev-Workshop-Shelter.git
$ cd PCF-Dev-Workshop-Shelter/
Finally, in order to perform the labs, you must be connected or logged into a live PCF environment. Initially you were asked to create a Pivotal Web Services (PWS) account for use in labs and afterwards. Two other environments have also been made available for use. Please see the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Environment document for details. You should have been assigned a student number and PCF instance at registration. Otherwise the instructors will provide that information for your use.
- Paul Hopper, Pivotal Platform Architect, phopper@pivotal.io
- Chris Busch, Pivotal Platform Architect, cbusch@pivotal.io
- Jenny McLaughlin, Pivotal Platform Architect, jmclaughlin@pivotal.io