Cloud Foundry as a Deployment Target in Spinnaker

How Spinnaker interacts with Cloud Foundry

Spinnaker has caching agents for Cloud Foundry Server Groups, Load Balancers, and Spaces. In order to perform caching and operations, these caching agents communicate directly with the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller via its REST API. The caching agents run on a specific interval, typically every 30 seconds. You can read more about caching agents in the Clouddriver Caching Agents in Spinnaker guide.

Cloud Foundry as a deployment target

Cloud Foundry administrators should configure the minimal amount of permissions required by Spinnaker to successfully function. This typically means the Cloud Foundry account has Space Developer permissions for at least one organization/space. In some cases, it may make sense to have one account for the entire Foundation, but this configuration isn’t normal or desired for security reasons.

Spinnaker administrators can configure one or more Cloud Foundry accounts as cloud providers.

Spinnaker users can use a Cloud Foundry account as a deployment target. Users can perform Cloud Foundry operations by using the Cloud Foundry stages in their pipelines.

What’s next

• Add a Cloud Foundry Account in Spinnaker
• Cloud Foundry Best Practices

Last modified April 12, 2021: (8405118)