Cloud Foundry Advisory Board Meeting, June 2019: Distributing Sidecars
The Cloud Foundry Community Advisory Board (CAB) meeting for June 2019 featured a community project related to distributing sidecars with buildpacks. The call, which was moderated by Dr. Max of IBM, also included updates from members of the development teams. At the end of the call, Swarna Podila and Chip Childers provided some updates from the Cloud Foundry Foundation.
Distributing sidecars with buildpacks
During last month’s CAB call, the concept of sidecars was introduced by Scott Sisil of Pivotal. He demonstrated how to deploy a Ruby app that talks to a separate Golang binary run as a sidecar process. Scott based his presentation on the sidecar tutorial posted by Tim Downey of Pivotal.
This time, Dr. Nic Williams of Stark & Wayne pushed the idea further by using buildpacks to distribute sidecars.
Dr. Nic Williams
“About a month ago, the CAB call talked about sidecars. I was super excited about that. I did Tim’s walkthrough, made that work, and the first thing that came out of my mind was why would I want to push this without using a buildpack?” —Dr. Nic, Stark & Wayne
According to Dr. Nic, implementing sidecars through buildpacks can address the separation of concerns across organizations, vendors, and developers. He emphasized that application developers shouldn’t worry about uploading the config-server necessary for sidecars.
The etcd proxy sidecar buildpack manifest (Image credit)During the call, Dr. Nic demonstrated how to create an etcd proxy sidecar buildpack. His tutorial can be found in this GitHub repo.
Runtime PMC
Eric Malm
Eric Malm of Pivotal provided the following updates:
- cf-deployment v9.3.0 was released and includes fixes to component metrics.
- CLI v6.45.0 was released and has better support for client credentials with
cf oauth-token. - The CAPI team is working on supporting more features for sidecars, such as buildpack integration and more independent resource limits.
- The Loggregator team is improving agent-based syslog drains.
- The Eirini team is making improvements to support reliability of route registrations.
- Bbl v8 was released, moving back to elastic load balancers instead of application ones.
BOSH
Mukesh Gadiya
Mukesh Gadiya of Pivotal delivered a couple of updates:
- The BOSH v1 manifest support was removed.
- The BOSH team is working to improve the behavior of
bosh start,bosh stop, andbosh recreate, following feedback that they behaved in unexpected ways.
CF Extensions
Dr. Max
Michael Maximilien (aka Dr. Max) of IBM noted the following developments:
- App-AutoScaler graduated from incubation with v1.2.2.
- Cloud-Native Buildpacks graduated from incubation and are now available at Buildpacks.io.
- Stratos
- The Stratos team is requesting graduation.
- Support for Kubernetes is being integrated.
- Abacus is moving to the attic.
Foundation updates
Swarna Podila
Swarna Podila posted two new updates from the Cloud Foundry Foundation. First, Abby Kearns will be participating in a series of ask-me-anything (AMA) calls. Interested CFF members should get in contact with the foundation’s digital marketing manager, Brie Rogers.
Second, the foundation is looking for contributors to the Cloud Foundry YouTube channel. Anyone interested in becoming a contributor can check out this publishing guide.
Chip Childers
Chip Childers noted that the Contributor Summit on September 10 is tentatively scheduled for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. He also reminded callers that the schedule for the next Cloud Foundry Summit in Europe goes live on June 20.
The next CAB call is scheduled for Wednesday, July 17. The call will start at 8 a.m. Pacific Time. Anyone interested can join the Cloud Foundry’s CAB Slack channel.
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