This simple application illustrates the use of the Mongodb data service in a Ruby application running on Cloud Foundry.
Find your MongoDB service via cf marketplace
.
$ cf marketplace
Getting services from marketplace in org testing / space testing as me...
OK
service plans description
mongodb default A MongoDB database on demand
Our service is called mongodb
. To create an instance of this service, use:
$ cf create-service mongodb default mongodb-instance
The example application comes with a Cloud Foundry manifest.yml
file, which provides all of the defaults necessary for an easy cf push
.
$ cf push
Using manifest file cf-mongodb-example-app/manifest.yml
Creating app mongodb-example-app in org testing / space testing as me...
OK
Using route mongodb-example-app.example.com
Binding mongodb-example-app.example.com to mongodb-example-app...
OK
Uploading mongodb-example-app...
Uploading from: cf-mongodb-example-app
...
Showing health and status for app mongodb-example-app in org testing / space testing as me...
OK
requested state: started
instances: 0/1
usage: 256M x 1 instances
urls: mongodb-example-app.10.244.0.34.xip.io
state since cpu memory disk
#0 running 2017-10-31 01:42:43 PM 0.0% 75.5M of 256M 0 of 1G
If you now curl the application, you'll see that the application has detected that it's not bound to a mongodb instance.
$ curl http://mongodb-example-app.example.com/
You must bind a MongoDB service instance to this application.
You can run the following commands to create an instance and bind to it:
$ cf create-service mongodb default mongodb-instance
$ cf bind-service mongodb-example-app mongodb-instance
Now, simply bind the mongodb instance to our application.
$ cf bind-service mongodb-example-app mongodb-instance
Binding service mongodb-instance to app mongodb-example-app in org testing / space testing as me...
OK
TIP: Use 'cf push' to ensure your env variable changes take effect
$ cf push
You can now create and drop collections by POSTing and DELETEing to myCollection
.
$ export APP=http://mongodb-example-app.example.com
$ curl -X POST $APP/myCollection
$ curl -X DELETE $APP/myCollection
bar
Of course, be sure to replace example.com
with the actual domain of your Cloud Foundry installation.