nginx buildpack – installed
Daniel Watrous It’s possible to add a custom buildpack to Stackato or Helion Development Platform so that it’s available to all applications. When using an installed buildpack it is not necessary to include a manifest or identify the buildpack. Instead it will be selected by the detect script in the buildpack. All files are on the cloud controller node which eliminates download time and bandwidth.
Package the buildpack
Prepare your buildpack for installation by adding all files to a zip file (of any name). The bin folder should be in the root of the zip file with any related files in their relative locations. Normally this will happen as expected if the buildpack is cloned and then within the buildpack directory zip is run, as shown.
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ git clone -b precompiled https://github.com/dwatrous/buildpack-nginx.git Cloning into 'buildpack-nginx'... remote: Counting objects: 156, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (99/99), done. remote: Total 156 (delta 44), reused 142 (delta 32) Receiving objects: 100% (156/156), 1.80 MiB | 2.64 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (44/44), done. Checking connectivity... done. vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ cd buildpack-nginx/ vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/buildpack-nginx$ zip -r buildpack-nginx.zip * adding: bin/ (stored 0%) adding: bin/detect (deflated 19%) adding: bin/compile (deflated 57%) adding: bin/release (deflated 2%) adding: bin/launch.sh (deflated 54%) adding: README.md (deflated 44%) adding: vendor/ (stored 0%) adding: vendor/nginx.tar.gz (deflated 4%) vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/buildpack-nginx$ cp buildpack-nginx.zip /vagrant/ |
It may be obvious that the commands above were run in a vagrant built Ubuntu box. Buildpack scripts must have the executable bit set, which doesn’t carry over when the zip file is created on windows. To accommodate this I created a vagrant box, installed git and cloned and zipped. I then copied the zip file into the vagrant folder for easy access.
The README.md isn’t necessary for the buildpack, obviously, but it doesn’t interfere either. Any unrelated files that are in the buildpack can be removed before creating the buildpack zip file, but they won’t have any impact if they are left.
Install the buildpack
Adding the buildpack to Stackato or Helion is very straight forward. Use the stackato or helion client to call create-buildpack and provide the name and zip file, as shown.
C:\Users\watrous\Documents\buildpack>stackato create-buildpack daniel-static-nginx buildpack-nginx.zip
Creating new buildpack daniel-static-nginx ... OK
Uploading buildpack bits ... OK
OK |
All installed buildpacks can be listed using the stackato client with the buildpacks command.
C:\Users\watrous\Documents\buildpack>stackato buildpacks +---+---------------------+---------------------+---------+--------+ | # | Name | Filename | Enabled | Locked | +---+---------------------+---------------------+---------+--------+ | 1 | java | java.zip | yes | no | | 2 | ruby | ruby.zip | yes | no | | 3 | nodejs | nodejs.zip | yes | no | | 4 | python | python.zip | yes | no | | 5 | go | go.zip | yes | no | | 6 | clojure | clojure.zip | yes | no | | 7 | scala | scala.zip | yes | no | | 8 | perl | perl.zip | yes | no | | 9 | daniel-static-nginx | buildpack-nginx.zip | yes | no | +---+---------------------+---------------------+---------+--------+ |
Use the buildpack
In the case of this buildpack, the detect script is looking for an index file with and extension of either html or htm. To deploy using this buildpack, just make sure that a file matching that description is in the root of your application files. There is no need to include a manifest.