How do I register a Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service Broker to make it accessible from multiple spaces within the same Organization, if I have Org-level permissions?
We tried to register a PCF Service broker (cf create-service-broker ...) in one space, then use it as a 'service instance' (cf create-service ...) in another space.
To illustrate the problem, consider the following work flow, from a HashiCorp Vault guide:
$ cf create-space examplespace
$ cf target -s examplespace
$ cf create-service-broker vault-broker "${AUTH_USERNAME}" "${AUTH_PASSWORD}" "https://${BROKER_URL}" --space-scoped
$ cf marketplace
service plans description
hashicorp-vault shared HashiCorp Vault Service Broker
# ...
$ cf create-service hashicorp-vault shared my-vault
The above works fine. The problem comes up when we have an app in a different space that we want to consume the HashiCorp Vault API:
$ cf target -s myappspace
$ cf bind-service my-app my-vault
This last part fails.
Also, now that I'm in the space myappspace, cf marketplace does **notCC show the new service broker.
Now, we have someone on our team with org-admin permissions.
I figured that we could just register the new service broker at the org level, using enable-service-access subcommand:
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/access-control.html#enable-access-to-service-plans
$ cf enable-service-access my-vault -o WebOrg
This failed as well, because, even though he had Admin permissions for the entire org, he got a permission denied error.
If we then go on to registering the service broker in the second space, myappspace, we get a
All three of these methods failed, but there has to be some way to make a service from one space available to the others, within an Org., if I have administrative permissions for that PCF Org.
How?
A similar (although more specific) type of this issue is documented in the following two github issues for PCF's cloud_controller_ng repository:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng/issues/935
https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng/issues/837
I've done the following research:
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/managing-service-brokers.html#register-broker
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/access-control.html
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/access-control.html#enable-access-to-service-plans
https://starkandwayne.com/blog/register-your-own-service-broker-with-any-cloud-foundry/
(We ran variations of every command on this page.)
The most similar of the existing questions on Stack Overflow were these:
WebSphere Message Broker - how to send a PCF message
Need help on Registering App on PCF with Spring Cloud Data Flow which is also on PCF
They don't seem to have much to do with name spacing issues in the PCF marketplace, or with PCF permissions management.
Note: At first I wanted to post this to serverfault.com, because this has more to do with the infrastructure for an application, rather than just programming. But, while serverfault.com has no tag for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Stack Overflow has a pivotal-cloud-foundry tag with 588 uses, already.
How do I register a Pivotal Cloud Foundry Service Broker to make it accessible from multiple spaces within the same Organization, if I have Org-level permissions?
I don't think you can do this. You'd need to be a platform admin/operator. Then you'd need to register the service broker with the platform & mark that broker as accessible to select orgs & spaces. You could then create services instances & if the broker permits share them across spaces.
If you only have org/space permissions, you can only register the service broker with a specific space. It's then only visible in that space.
Without platform admin/operator permissions, I think the best you could do would be this:
register the broker in a specific space
create a service instance in that space
bind that to your apps in this space
create a service key for your app in the second space
switch to the second space
create a user provided service in that space and enter the service key info
Repeat steps 4-6 for each app in the second service (this ensure you get unique credentials per app, you could use one service key for all apps if you don't care about this).
Happy to be corrected, but I think that is the state of things as I write this.
Assuming you are using PCF 2.1 or above.
Service brokers must explicitly enable service instance sharing by setting a flag in their service-level metadata object. This allows service instances, of any service plan, to be shared across orgs and spaces.
This is from Enabling Service Instance Sharing
Looks like you have already followed the rest of steps from Sharing Service Intances
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I deploy a web app to a local cloudfoundry environment. As a database service for my DEV environment I have chosen a Marketplace service google-cloudsql-postgres with the plan postgres-db-f1-micro. Using the Web UI I created an instance with the name myapp-test-database and mentioned it in the CF Manifest:
applications:
- name: myapp-test
services:
- myapp-test-database
At first, all is fine. I can even redeploy the existing artifact. However, when I build a new version of my app and push it to CF, the injected credentials are updated and the app can no longer access the tables:
PSQLException: ERROR: permission denied for table
The tables are still there, but they're owned by the previous user. They were automatically created by the ORM in the public schema.
While the -OLD application still exists I can retrieve the old username/password from the CF Web UI or $VCAP_SERVICES and drop the tables.
Is this all because of Rolling App Deployments? But then there should be a lot of complaints.
If you are strictly doing a cf push (or restart/restage), the broker isn't involved (Cloud Controller doesn't talk to it), and service credentials won't change.
The only action through cf commands that can modify your credentials is doing an unbind followed by a bind. Many, but not all, service brokers will throw away credentials on unbind and provide new, unique credentials for a bind. This is often desirable so that you can rotate credentials if credentials are compromised.
Where this can be a problem is if you have custom scripts or cf cli plugins to implement rolling deployments. Most tools like this will use two separate application instances, which means you'll have two separate bindings and two separate sets of credentials.
If you must have one set of credentials you can use a service key to work around this. Service keys are like bindings but not associated with an application in CloudFoundry.
The downside of the service key is that it's not automatically exposed to your application, like a binding, through $VCAP_SERVICES. To workaround this, you can pass the service key creds into a user-provided service and then bind that to your application, or you can pass them into your application through other environment variables, like DB_URL.
The other option is to switch away from using scripts and cf cli plugins for blue/green deployment and to use the support that is now built into Cloud Foundry. With cf cli version 7+, cf push has a --strategy option which can be set to rolling to perform a rolling deployment. This does not create multiple application instances and so there would only ever exist one service binding and one set of credentials.
Request a static username using the extra bind parameter "username":
cf bind-service my-app-test-CANDIDATE myapp-test-database -c "{\"username\":\"myuser\"}"
With cf7+ it's possible to add parameters to the manifest:
applications:
- name: myapp-test
services:
- name: myapp-test-database
parameters: { "username": "myuser" }
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/services/application-binding.html#arbitrary-params-binding
Note: Arbitrary parameters are not supported in app manifests in cf CLI v6.x. Arbitrary parameters are supported in app manifests in cf CLI v7.0 and later.
However, I can't find the new syntax here: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/manifest-attributes.html#services-block . The syntax I use comes from some other SO question.
I am trying to install Kubeflow on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes Engine (GKE), following the GCP deployment guide.
I created a GCP project of which I am the owner, I enabled billing, set up OAuth credentials and enabled the following APIs:
Compute Engine API
Kubernetes Engine API
Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
Deployment Manager API
Cloud Resource Manager API
Cloud Filestore API
AI Platform Training & Prediction API
However, when I want to deploy Kubeflow using the UI, I get the following error:
So I doublechecked and those APIs are already enabled:
The log messages at the bottom of the screen are:
2020-03-0614:14:04.629: Getting enabled services for project <projectname>..
2020-03-0614:14:16.909: Could not configure communication with GCP, exiting
The Could not configure communication with GCP, exiting is triggered when _enableGcpServices() fails.
The line Getting enabled services for project ... is printed but not the line Proceeding with project number: ..., so the error must be triggered somewhere in the block of code between those lines.
The call to Gapi.cloudresourcemanager.getProjectNumber(project) has its own try/catch with a slightly different error message and title (only talks about the cloud resource manager API, not the IAM API), so I assume it is the call to Gapi.getSignedInEmail() that fails??
I'd suggest having a look at the service management API, IAM service credentials API and cloud identity aware proxy API possibly. I've only used the CLI install tool previously and not run into these problems, but you might require these services for the IAP deployment?
I faced the same issue and was able to solve by correcting the project id.
Make sure that the project id on the UI form is specified correctly as it is on the GCP project - and that it does not have any leading or trailing spaces if you copy pasted from the GCP project details like I did.
I had the same issue. I was using in trial. Seems they allow a limited project to use billing account at same time. So I shut down unused ones . Went to Billing-->my projects. Disabled unused with 3 dots. Then tried to enable the billing account for current project. It worked.
We have a GUI that manages Cloud Foundry, and there's a link that show an instance with IP white list external dependency (quite large) How can I easily re-create this config as JSON, and recreate to diff Foundry env ?
It's not entirely clear what is being presented in your GUI but it sounds like it might be the application security groups. You might try running cf security-groups or cf security-group <name> to see if this information matches up with what's displayed in the GUI.
If that's what you want, you can use the following API calls to obtain the JSON data & recreate it in another environment.
1.) List all the security groups: http://apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/1.40.0/security_groups/list_all_security_groups.html
2.) List security groups applied to all applications: http://apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/1.40.0/security_group_running_defaults/return_the_security_groups_used_for_running_apps.html
3.) List security groups applied to all staging containers: http://apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/1.40.0/security_group_staging_defaults/return_the_security_groups_used_for_staging.html
4.) Retrieve a particular security group: http://apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/1.40.0/security_groups/retrieve_a_particular_security_group.html
And you can find more details about the API calls here: http://apidocs.cloudfoundry.org/
You can also run the cf cli commands above with the -v flag to show the HTTP requests being made by the CLI to obtain the information that's displayed.
Hope that helps!
I have created a space and a BigInsight cluster on Bluemix. In order to test Knox, I need multiple users for authentication. Is it possible to create users in Bluemix Biginsight service? The ID that is provided to access the cluster does not have root access. Also, it would be helpful if someone can explain in detail how the admin-related task(adding more components like Hue,Drill using yum commands) could be performed in Bluemix Biginsights service. Thanks in advance.
I am guessing here that you have created a Bluemix Biginsights Basic (Beta) plan.
This service is a single user service and cannot have multiple users.
In addition this service is a managed service and installation of software by the user is not allowed.
This service comes with preconfigured settings and pre-installed softwares that is fixed. If you do need something apart from this, I would suggest to open a Biginsights service ticket through Bluemix Support page with a request for it and why you need the software.
The product management team will look at it and see if they can be preinstalled in the future release.
These installations will not be done on a any Basic (Beta) plan for individual clusters.
I am creating a logdrain service in Bluemix for my apps:
`cf cups myapps-logdrain -l <logdrain-endpoint>`
Can I bind the myapp-logdrain service to multiple apps at a time? I looked at the cloudfoundry documentation and played with the logdrain service from cf cli. Its settings don't specify whether or not it can be shared.
Yes. Log drain service(user provided service) can be shared just like any other service.
You can differentiate logs from different applications by querying for application GUID and/or instance number.
You may see logs similar to following format:
[Date][log-service-name][application guid][app-instance-number][log-message]
Apr 21 00:35:44 bluemixlogs
3398064b-8de6-46dd-egf1-0dde35546496/[App/0]: sending logs to 3rd party service
: some log info
In general user defined services in cloudfoundry can be shared across multiple apps. They are usually just configuration data that tell your app how it can connect to some other application or service.
Yet I have nod specific knowledge about the logdrain service.