Part 1: The Developer Experience
This workshop introduces the business “why” of Cloud Foundry with a nod to Microservices architectures. It then takes the developer through a hands-on “day in the life” experience of interacting with Pivotal Web Services:
Target My Cloud Foundry Provider - walkthrough of PWS registration, download Cloud Foundry CLI, target/login
Push My App - push the Spring Music application, high-level talk through of app push/stage/deploy
Bind My App to Backing Services - bind Spring Music to an ElephantSQL PostgreSQL database, high-level talk through of service creation/binding, explain VCAP_SERVICES, point to Spring Cloud
Scale My App - push cf-scale-boot application, scale up, scale down, high-level talk through of dynamic routing
Monitor My App’s Logs - tail cf-scale-boot logs, high-level discussion of loggregator
Monitor My App’s Health - hit the “kill switch” in cf-scale-boot, watch the events in the logs, show cf events, watch the app restart, high-level talk through of health manager
Monitor My App’s Performance - bind to New Relic service, re-push application, high-level discussion of NR agent fetching via BP, poke around in NR interface
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