cloud foundry copy routes from one app to another

Question

Cloud Foundry is it possible to copy missing routes from one app to another while doing blue green deployment?

I have an app with few manually added routes, while doing blue green deployment (automated through script) I want to copy missing/manually added routes into new app. Is it possible?

Script:

#!/bin/bash

path="C:/Users/.../Desktop/cf_through_sh/appName.jar"

spaceName="development"
appBlue="appName"
appGreen="${appName}-dev"
manifestFile="C:/Users/.../Desktop/cf_through_sh/manifest-dev.yml"
domains=("domain1.com" "domain2.com")
appHosts=("host-v1" "host-v2")

evaluate_return_code (){
  ret=$1
  if [[ $ret != 0 ]]
  then
    exit $ret
  fi
}

switch_to_target_space() {
    space="development"
    echo "Change space to ${space}"
    cf t -s ${space}
    evaluate_return_code $?
}

push_new_release() {
    appGreen=$1
    if [ ! -f "${manifestFile}" ]; then
        echo "Missing manifest: ${manifestFile}";
        exit 1;
    fi

    if [ ! -f "${path}" ]; then
        echo "Missing artifact: ${path}";
        exit 1;
    fi
    echo "Deploying ${path} as ${appGreen}"
    cf push ${appGreen} -f ${manifestFile} -p ${path} --no-route
    evaluate_return_code $?
}

map_routes() {
    app=$1
    domains=$2
    shift
    appHosts=$3

    for  host in  ${appHosts[*]}; do
        echo "Mapping ${host} to ${app}"
        for  domain in  ${domains[*]}; do
            cf map-route ${app} ${domain} -n ${host}
            evaluate_return_code $?
        done
    done
}


unmap_routes() {
    app=$1
    domains=$2
    shift
    appHosts=$3

    for  host in  ${appHosts[*]}; do
        echo "Unmapping ${host} from ${app}"
        for  domain in  ${domains[*]}; do
            cf unmap-route ${app} ${domain} -n ${host}
        evaluate_return_code $?
        done
    done
}

rename_app() {
    oldName=$1
    newName=$2
    echo "Renaming ${oldName} to ${newName}"
    cf rename ${oldName} ${newName}
    evaluate_return_code $?
}

switch_names() {
    appBlue=$1
    appGreen=$2
    appTemp="${appBlue}-old"
    rename_app ${appBlue} ${appTemp}
    rename_app ${appGreen} ${appBlue}
    rename_app ${appTemp} ${appGreen}
}

stop_old_release() {
    echo "Stopping old ${appGreen} app"
    cf stop ${appGreen}
    evaluate_return_code $?
}

switch_to_target_space ${spaceName}
push_new_release ${appGreen}
map_routes ${appGreen} ${domains[*]} ${appHosts[*]}
unmap_routes ${appBlue} ${domains[*]} ${appHosts[*]}
switch_names ${appBlue} ${appGreen}
stop_old_release

echo "DONE"
exit 0;

Eg: appblue has 5 roues

 1. host-v1.domain1.com
 2. host-v2.domain1.com
 3. host-v1.domain2.com
 4. host-v2.domain2.com
 5. manual-add.domain1.com //manually added route through admin UI

After blue green deployment through script app contains only 4 routes

 1. host-v1.domain1.com
 2. host-v2.domain1.com
 3. host-v1.domain2.com
 4. host-v2.domain2.com

How to copy missing 5th route? I don't want to pass host manual-add from script since it's added manually.

In general, is it possible to copy routes from one app to another if not mapped?

Answer 1

This has to be done only through Jenkins (or any CI-CD tool). What we did in our case is, we had a CF-Manifest-Template.yml and CF-Manifest-settings.json and we had a gradle task that would apply the settings from JSON and fill the Manifest-temple and generate a cf-manifest-generated.yml

The gradle file will have a task that would do blue-green-deployment by using this generated manifest file and all the routes will be hard-coded in the manifest-file. This is the standard way of doing it.

But if you want to copy route from an App running in Cloud Foundry and copy thos routes to another-app, then you would need to write a REST Client that connects to Cloud Foundry CloudController and gets all the route of App-A and then creates routes to APP-B

It is pretty simple !!

Write a REST Client that executes this command

cf app APP-A

This will bring back the details of APP-A as a JSON Response. The response would have these parameters

Showing health and status for app APP-A in org Org-A / space DEV as [email protected]...

name:              APP-A
requested state:   started
instances:         1/1
usage:             1G x 1 instances
routes:            ********
last uploaded:     Sat 25 Aug 00:25:45 IST 2018
stack:             cflinuxfs2
buildpack:         java_buildpack

Read this JSON response and collect the Routes of APP-A and then have that mapped for APP-B .. Its pretty simple