Distributing Cloud Foundry sidecars with buildpacks

Until recently a running Cloud Foundry app container only ran and monitored a single process, but now we can run additional sidecar processes. In this deck we look at packaging the sidecar software in a buildpack.

Walk thru is at https://gist.github.com/drnic/28ba8d0dc8e91bfdc47e53916d6cdb56

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1. Title Text Body Level One Body Level Two Body Level Three Body Level Four Body Level Five Distributing sidecars with Buildpacks CF CAB meeting June 2019 Dr Nic Williams @drnic
3. Sidecars ./app ./config-server -p 5555
4. Sidecars ./app etcd grpc-proxy start etcd etcd etcd
5. Sidecars nginx [--port 8080] ./app --port 8081
6. via cf push ./app ./config-server -p 5555 ./config-server uploaded by dev How to separate concerns?
7. Who? ./app etcd grpc-proxy start etcd cli curated by etcd team Who to distribute etcd sidecar?
8. Buildpack ./app etcd proxy etcd service team own etcd Distribute sidecar via buildpack Ɏ app team etcd service team
9. etcdproxy sidecar buildpack command: start_etcdproxy.sh
10. Install etcd cli New "singles" buildpack Walk thru @drnic Package etcd cli Ɲ $ Run etcd proxy as sidecar ɑ Using CF Dev + local etcd server