Create services out of manifest.yml using cloudfoundry/IBM Bluemix

Question

a cloudfounry manifest.yml is a quite powerful way to express the deployment model of an application. That would be really great is if services could also be created as specified in the manifest.yml.

Please consider the following manifest.yml

---
applications:
- name:  MQL.sample.node.backend
  disk: 1024M
  command: node app.js
  path: mqlight_sample_backend_node
  memory: 256M
  instances: 2
  no-route: true
  services:
  - MQLight-sampleservice
- name:  MQL.sample.node.frontend
  disk: 1024M
  command: node app.js
  path: mqlight_sample_frontend_node
  memory: 512M
  host: mqlightsample-node-${random-word}
  services:
  - MQLight-sampleservice

This file describes 3 instances of 2 application, all bound to MQLight-sampleservice but this service has to exist before.

I can easily create this service using the cloudfoudry command line tool

cf create-service MQLight-sampleservice MQLight

But I'd like to have everything in one file, is this possible?

Answer 1

It is currently not possible with the current cloud foundry cli v6. There is a work item open for this feature: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/892938/stories/65262468

Meanwhile, I recommend creating a script:

createServiceAndPush.sh

cf cs mysql 100 mymysqldb
cf push