Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Setting up the Development Environment

In previous tutorial we had a brief introduction to Pivotal Cloud Foundry(PCF). In this tutorial we will be setting up the PCF enviroment for development purpose. We will be installing PCF locally and configure the Pivotal Web Services(PWS) console to create an account.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Table Of Contents
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Quick Introduction
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Setting up the Development Environment 
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Deploy Spring Boot Application Hello World Example	
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Understanding PCF Deployment Architecture      
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Deploying Spring Boot + MySQL Application to PCF 	   
Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tutorial - Deploying Spring Boot + RabbitMQ Application to PCF	     
	      

• Downloading and installing Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface(CLI)

  The Cloud Foundry (cf) command line interface (CLI) provides a set of commands for managing your apps. We will need to download and install this interface for our windows machine.
  
  • Download the CF Windows installer. It will prompt for the download. Save the zip file distribution.
  • After successfully unzip operation, double click on the CF CLI executable. Install this executable-
    
    
  • To list all of the cf commands and associated help information, use cf help. Use cf command_name -h to view detailed help information for a particular command.
    
    

• Creating Pivotal Cloud Foundry Account

  • Go to pivotal cloud foundry page. click on Register link.
    
    
  • Click on Sign Up button.
    
    
  • And then fill the required details
    
    

Verify the link received on your registered email.

Login to Pivotal Cloud Foundry with your credentials

To start the free trial we need to validate the token received on mobile phone-

Select Pivotal Web Services. It will ask you to name an organization to be created.

Currently there are no applications running in the space.

Above we created an Organization named testin1. A default development space was assigned to us.
Organization (org) is a development account that encompasses computing resources, apps, and services. It can be owned and used by an individual or by multiple collaborators. Set the org name to be the name of the project you'll be working on or the name of your team. Don't worry - you can change this name at any time.

Login to Pivotal Webservices Account using CF CLI.

• Open the command terminal and use the following command

       cf login
       

  
  
  
• It will ask for Cloud Foundry API. Enter The following API value-

       https://api.run.pivotal.io
       

  
  
  
• Next it will ask you for the Cloud Foundry credentials
  
  

We have successfully login to the PWS console.