Paul Dougan pauldougan

Access details of your applications from the Cloud Foundry API

Problem

You need access to application level information to help manage and plan your estate and cannot get what you need through the command line interface (CLI).

Solution

Login with the CF CLI as usual
Use the CF API to access the /V3/apps endpoint to return the detailed information in JSON format.

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Install Docker and a local Kubernetes cluster

Problem

You need Docker and Kubernetes environments for local experimentation and learning.

Solution

Install Docker Edge release to get access to the latest Docker and Kubernetes.
Start Docker and enable Kubernetes.

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Recipe

asciinema example

https://asciinema.org/docs/how-it-works

A simple hello world

Link

https://asciinema.org/a/203550

Run a GOV.UK Prototyping Kit prototype on the GOV.UK PaaS

Prerequisites

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"`
brew install cf-cli git

Contact the org manager of the gds-design organisation and ask for access

Introduction

This material was collated as part of the Techops 2018/2019 Q4 Firebreak (see the Trello card for the background) and brings together some learnings about diagnosing issues with kubernetes clusters.

Table of contents

Setup
- Tools
Install Tools

	#!/usr/bin/python
	from faker import Faker

	RECORD_COUNT=1000000
	fields = ["id", "job_id", "job_row_number", "service_id", "services", "template_id", "templates_history", "template_version", "templates_history", "api_key_id", "api_keys", "key_type", "key_types", "notification_type", "created_at", "sent_at", "sent_by", "updated_at", "reference", "billable_units", "client_reference", "international", "phone_prefix", "rate_multiplier", "notification_status", "notification_status_types", "created_by_id", "users"]

	fake = Faker()
	print fields
	for _ in range(RECORD_COUNT):
	print [fake.uuid4(), fake.uuid4(), 001, fake.uuid4(), fake.uuid4(), 001, fake.uuid4(), 'ABCDEFG', 'enum', fake.iso8601(tzinfo=None, end_datetime=None), fake.iso8601(tzinfo=None, end_datetime=None), 'SENDER', fake.iso8601(tzinfo=None, end_datetime=None), 'REF', 001, 'CLIENTINFO', False, "+44", 3, 'STATUS', fake.uuid4()]

	export TRACKER_TOKEN=36d78e8c993f5339b39b5df310e26359
	curl -X GET -H "X-TrackerToken: $TRACKER_TOKEN" "https://www.pivotaltracker.com/services/v5/projects/1275640/epics" \| jq .
	curl -X GET -H "X-TrackerToken: $TRACKER_TOKEN" "https://www.pivotaltracker.com/services/v5/projects/1275640/epics/3863815" \| jq .

	# make routes clickable in the mac terminal by linking them
	alias cfa = 'cf a \| sed -E -e "s/[^ ]+$/https:\/\/&/"'