Managing service instances in PCF

We will look at how to we use the services available in the market place. 

Some basic commands: 

cf marketplace : list all services in the marketplace

cf services: list all service instances created. 

Creating and binding a service from marketplace. 

View list of all the services in the market place

/ $cf marketplace

Getting services from marketplace in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

service        plans             description

local-volume   free-local-disk   Local service docs: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/local-volume-release/

p-mysql        512mb, 1gb        MySQL databases on demand

p-rabbitmq     standard          RabbitMQ is a robust and scalable high-performance multi-protocol messaging broker.

p-redis        shared-vm         Redis service to provide a key-value store

Create a new service instance

/ $cf create-service p-mysql 512mb user-db

Creating service instance user-db in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

/ $cf apps

Getting apps in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

name          requested state   instances   memory   disk   urls

userservice   started           2/2         512M     512M   userservice-dev.local.pcfdev.io

/ $cf services

Getting services in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

name      service   plan    bound apps   last operation

user-db   p-mysql   512mb                create succeeded

/ $cf bind-service userservice user-db

Binding service user-db to app userservice in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

Unbinding and deleting services

/ $cf services

Getting services in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

name      service   plan    bound apps    last operation

user-db   p-mysql   512mb   userservice   create succeeded

/ $cf unbind-service userservice user-db

Unbinding app userservice from service user-db in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

/ $cf delete-service user-db

Really delete the service user-db?> y

Deleting service user-db in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

/ $cf services

Getting services in org pcfdev-org / space pcfdev-space as user...

OK

No services found

/ $

list information about a specific service. 

Cf service user-db

You may not want to bind the service everytime you push an application. You can use the following entries to bind in the app manifest file. 

services:

• user-db

Some services require to pass some json attributes while binding the services. 

 cf bind-service userservice user-db-c ‘{“ref-name”:”DeiveeService”, role=“Admin”}’

You can also send as a json file. 

Cf bind-service userservice user-db -c /tmp/configuration.json

Other commands 

cf rename-service user-db myuser-db

cf update-service user-db -p 1GB