the bbl state dir concourse resource

This is a concourse resource for provisioning bosh directors and using bbl to manipulate cloud-stored bbl-states.

It’s built to play nice with bosh-deployment-resource and pool-resource.

to bring this in to your concourse pipeline:

resource_types:
- name: bbl-state-resource
  type: docker-image
  source:
    repository: cfinfrastructure/bbl-state-resource

Source Configuration

Example:

resources:
- name: bbl-state
  type: bbl-state-resource
  source:
    bucket: bbl-state
    iaas: gcp
    gcp_region: us-east1
    gcp_service_account_key: {{bbl_gcp_service_account_key}}

Parameters:

bucket: required: the name of the bucket where you’d like your state-dir tarballs to be stored.

iaas: required: gcp, for now, but we’ll take aws soon. This is the iaas where you want your new bosh directors.

lb_type: optional: cf or concourse, denotes the varietals of the load balancers you’d like to deploy with your director

lb_domain: optional: for cf, the system domain, for concourse, the web domain. NOTE: randomly named bosh directors will share a single domain at the moment and that will not go well. these features don’t mix.

gcp_service_account_key: required: your gcp service account key, formatted as JSON.

gcp_region: required: the gcp region where you’d like your environments.

Behaviour

put: Deploy, upgrade, and destroy BOSH directors and its containing environment

There are two primary modes of operation for bbl-state puts:

1. By default, without a name configured, we’ll generate random environment names for each put: { command: up }.
2. If you’ve configured a name, name_file, or a state_dir, the resource will manipulate that environment.

Examples:

jobs:
- name: bbl-up-a-specifically-named-environment
  plan:
  - put: bbl-state
    params:
      command: up
      name: my-lonely-bosh-director

- name: bbl-up-a-randomly-named-environment
  plan:
  - put: bbl-state
    params:
      command: up

- name: bbl-update-that-randomly-named-env
  plan:
  - get: bbl-state
    passed: [bbl-up-a-randomly-named-environment]
  - put: bbl-state
    params:
      command: up
      name_file: bbl-state/name

- name: bbl-delete-that-env-you-just-updated
  plan:
  - get: bbl-state-resource
    passed: [bbl-update-that-env-from-before]
  - put: bbl-state
    params:
      command: down
      state_dir: bbl-state

Parameters:

command: required: up, down, destroy, rotate, or cleanup-leftovers. Any top-level command available to bbl.

args: optional: a yaml hash containing additional flags as key-value pairs. these might be load balancer options or filter: env-name for leftovers. note that these use dashes, not underscores.

name: optional: the name of the environment you’d like to manipulate. overrides name_file and state_dir.

name_file: optional: a file you’d like to load name from, useful if you’re manipulating an env stored in a pool-resource. overrides state_dir.

state_dir: optional: an already-fetched bbl state directory containing the state for the environment you’d like to manipulate.

get: Download bbl states

gets download bbl-states, directories generated by bbl that contain information about a BOSH director and its associated iaas environment.

Examples:

jobs:
- name: get-from-previous-put-and-add-it-to-a-pool
  plan:
  - get: bbl-state
    trigger: true
    passed: [bbl-up-a-randomly-named-environment]
  - put: concourse-pool-of-bbl-states
    params:
      add: bbl-state

- name: delete-a-random-unclaimed-env-nightly
  plan:
  - get: time-resource-nightly
    trigger: true
  - put: lock
    resource: concourse-pool-of-bbl-states
    params:
      acquire: true
  - put: bbl-state
    params:
      name_file: lock/name
      command: down
    on_success:
      put: lock
      resource: concourse-pool-of-bbl-states
      params:
        remove: lock

Parameters:

none! names, checksums, and timestamps are encoded in our concourse versions, so we’ve got to fetch those specific ones.

note: gets don’t have access to the file system for dynamic configuration, anyways, so name_files and state_dirs can’t be reached. If you want to get a specific state-dir, you’ll have to use concourse primitives like passed to filter things down or do a put with a noop-ish bbl command like env-id.

Special outputs that you wouldn’t find in a normal bbl-state include:

1. bbl-state/name, which contains the environment name
2. bbl-state/metadata, which is useful for plugging in to concourse/pool-resource

Development:

things happen via the Makefile:

make help