What is a service broker in Cloud Foundry?

Service brokers provide a means to extend Cloud Foundry with managed services that can be consumed by applications deployed to the platform. Managed services typically expose some sort of resource to an application, such as a database or other persistent store, a messaging system, or other supporting infrastructure.

What are the responsibilities of a service broker?

Answer: Service brokers publish a catalog of services and service plans, manage the provisioning and de-provisioning of service instances, and provide connection details and credentials for an application to consume the resource.

Why does a service register with a broker?

Register a Broker. Registering a broker causes Cloud Controller to fetch and validate the catalog from your broker, and save the catalog to the Cloud Controller database.

How do you become a service broker?

Use the following code to create the Service Broker Service. –Create Service for the Target and the Initiator….These are listed below.

1. Enable the Service Broker on the database.
2. Create valid Message Types.
3. Create a Contract for the conversation.
4. Create Queues for the Communication.
5. Create Services for the Communication.

Do you need a GUID for a Cloud Foundry broker?

With Cloud Foundry API (CAPI) v1.71 or later, the service ID and plan IDs of each service advertised by the broker must be unique only within the broker and can overlap ids defined in other brokers. GUIDs are recommended for the service ID and plan IDs of each service.

How to enable Docker support in Cloud Foundry?

A Cloud Foundry deployment that has Docker support enabled. To enable Docker support, see the Enable Docker section of Using Docker in Cloud Foundry in the Cloud Foundry documentation. A Docker image that meets the following requirements: The Docker image must contain an /etc/passwd file with an entry for the root user.

How to purge service instances in Cloud Foundry?

$ cf purge-service-instance mysql-dev WARNING: This operation assumes that the service broker responsible for this service instance is no longer available or is not responding with a 200 or 410, and the service instance has been deleted, leaving orphan records in Cloud Foundry’s database.

How does Cloud Foundry pick an URL for an app?

When the app was first pushed Cloud Foundry used the app’s name as part of the URL for the app. You can specify one or more URLs (routes in Cloud Foundry parlance), or let Cloud Foundry pick one at random. This flexible route manipulation can be used to orchestrate complex zero-downtime-deployment workflows.