Deploying Stub Runner Boot Server to PCF - cloud-foundry

Question

We are trying to use Stub Runner Boot to have a stub server and stubs available on Nexus (and local repo).
Locally I more or less sorted it out, with the help of other questions I submitted.
But now, I think I will face another problem and I'm stuck again... We are going to deploy the stub server to our PCF for smoke testing.
We can happily say curl pcf_host/stubs and it will respond with the list of configured stubs and port numbers.
But the stubs will be running in some port (that we can even make static, configuring the stub server) but I don't think we'll be able to call PCF on a port other than 443 (or perhpas 80), or can we?
Now that I wrote all of this, I'm starting to realise that the problem is more related with PCF than with SCC, and I must say that my knowledge of PCF is even smaller than of SCC.
Would appreciate if someone could help. Thanks.

Answer 1

Very good that you asked this question :)
We already solve this problem with Spring Cloud Pipelines. You can read about this more in https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-pipelines/single/spring-cloud-pipelines.html#_3_8_enable_stubs_for_smoke_tests .
To put it briefly, you need to open ports and allow multiple port binding for your app. Also you have to generate routes. We already do that here https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-pipelines/blob/master/common/src/main/bash/pipeline-cf.sh#L577
Let me copy the main part of that code over here
# FUNCTION: addMultiplePortsSupport {{{
# Adds multiple ports support for Stub Runner Boot
# Uses [PAAS_TEST_SPACE_PREFIX], [ENVIRONMENT] env vars
#
# $1 - Stub Runner name
# $2 - IDs of stubs to be downloaded
# $3 - path to Stub Runner manifest
function addMultiplePortsSupport() {
local stubRunnerName="${1}"
local stubrunnerIds="${2}"
local pathToManifest="${3}"
local appName
appName=$(retrieveAppName)
local hostname
hostname="$(hostname "${stubRunnerName}" "${ENVIRONMENT}" "${pathToManifest}")"
hostname="${hostname}-${appName}"
echo "Hostname for ${stubRunnerName} is ${hostname}"
local testSpace="${PAAS_TEST_SPACE_PREFIX}-${appName}"
local domain
domain="$( getDomain "${hostname}" )"
echo "Domain for ${stubRunnerName} is ${domain}"
# APPLICATION_HOSTNAME and APPLICATION_DOMAIN will be used for stub registration. Stub Runner Boot
# will use this environment variable to hardcode the hostname of the stubs
setEnvVar "${stubRunnerName}" "APPLICATION_HOSTNAME" "${hostname}"
setEnvVar "${stubRunnerName}" "APPLICATION_DOMAIN" "${domain}"
local previousIfs="${IFS}"
local listOfPorts=""
local appGuid
appGuid="$( "${CF_BIN}" curl "/v2/apps?q=name:${stubRunnerName}" -X GET | jq '.resources[0].metadata.guid' | sed 's/^"\(.*\)"$/\1/' )"
echo "App GUID for ${stubRunnerName} is ${appGuid}"
IFS="," read -ra vals <<< "${stubrunnerIds}"
for stub in "${vals[#]}"; do
echo "Parsing ${stub}"
local port
port=${stub##*:}
if [[ "${listOfPorts}" == "" ]]; then
listOfPorts="${port}"
else
listOfPorts="${listOfPorts},${port}"
fi
done
echo "List of added ports: [${listOfPorts}]"
"${CF_BIN}" curl "/v2/apps/${appGuid}" -X PUT -d "{\"ports\":[8080,${listOfPorts}]}"
echo "Successfully updated the list of ports for [${stubRunnerName}]"
IFS="," read -ra vals <<< "${stubrunnerIds}"
for stub in "${vals[#]}"; do
echo "Parsing ${stub}"
local port
port=${stub##*:}
local newHostname="${hostname}-${port}"
echo "Creating route with hostname [${newHostname}]"
"${CF_BIN}" create-route "${testSpace}" "${domain}" --hostname "${newHostname}"
local routeGuid
routeGuid="$( "${CF_BIN}" curl -X GET "/v2/routes?q=host:${newHostname}" | jq '.resources[0].metadata.guid' | sed 's/^"\(.*\)"$/\1/' )"
echo "GUID of the new route is [${routeGuid}]. Will update the mapping for port [${port}]"
"${CF_BIN}" curl "/v2/route_mappings" -X POST -d "{ \"app_guid\": \"${appGuid}\", \"route_guid\": \"${routeGuid}\", \"app_port\": ${port} }"
echo "Successfully updated the new route mapping for port [${port}]"
done
IFS="${previousIfs}"
} # }}}