Skand Purohit

Posted on Apr 11, 2018

Deploy Java Application To Cloud Foundry In Less Than An Hour

#cloudfoundry #java #spring #gradle

Introduction:

This article talks about setting up PCF on your Local Workstation with PCF Dev and deploy a Java application.

Time : 45 mins

• Virtual Box 5.0 or higher
• Java JDK 7 or higher
• 4GB Memory
• 10GB Space
• Create account on PCF

Install The CLI

Download and Install Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf cli):

Install The PCF Dev

Download the latest version of PCF Dev, navigate to https://network.pivotal.io/products/pcfdev

Here I have used v0.28.0 for PCF 1.11.0

Unzip the downloaded zip file

Install the PCF Dev Plugin

Start PCF Dev

This Process takes somewhere from 10-20 mins depending on the workstation.

Deploy Java Application

Now that you have PCF Dev Virtual Machine running on your workstation, next step is to deploy the sample Java application.

GIT Clone

$ cd spring-music

Login to PCF Dev

Use Gradle to Assemble the app locally

$ ./gradle assemble

Push the App

$ cf push --hostname spring-music

While App gets deployed you would see the route which would be used to access the app from your local browser.

requested state: started
instances: 1/1
usage: 512M x 1 instances
routes: spring-music.local.pcfdev.io

To View Logs

$ cf logs spring-music –recent

To Check Running App Details