Push the server application on Cloud Foundry, configure it (see below) and start it.

	Note
	You must use a unique name for your app; an app with the same name in the same organization will cause your deployment to fail

cf push dataflow-server -b java_buildpack -m 2G -k 2G --no-start -p spring-cloud-dataflow-server-cloudfoundry-1.2.4.RELEASE.jar
cf bind-service dataflow-server redis
cf bind-service dataflow-server my_mysql

Important

The recommended minimal memory setting for the server is 2G. Also, to push apps to PCF and obtain application property metadata, the server downloads applications to Maven repository hosted on the local disk. While you can specify up to 2G as a typical maximum value for disk space on a PCF installation, this can be increased to 10G. Read the maximum disk quota section for information on how to configure this PCF property. Also, the Data Flow server itself implements a Last Recently Used algorithm to free disk space when it falls below a low water mark value.

	Note
	If you are pushing to a space with multiple users, for example on PWS, there may already be a route taken for the applicaiton name you have chosen. You can use the options --random-route to avoid this when pushing the app.

Now we can configure the app. The following configuration is for Pivotal Web Services. You need to fill in {org}, {space}, {email} and {password} before running these commands.

cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_URL https://api.run.pivotal.io
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_ORG {org}
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_SPACE {space}
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_DOMAIN cfapps.io
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_SERVICES rabbit
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_TASK_SERVICES my_mysql
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_USERNAME {email}
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_PASSWORD {password}
cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_SKIP_SSL_VALIDATION false

	Warning
	Only set 'Skip SSL Validation' to true if you’re running on a Cloud Foundry instance using self-signed certs (e.g. in development). Do not use for production.

	Note
	If you are deploying in an environment that requires you to sign on using the Pivotal Single Sign-On Service, refer to the section Section 18.1, “Authentication and Cloud Foundry” for information on how to configure the server.

Spring Cloud Data Flow server implementations (be it for Cloud Foundry, Mesos, YARN, or Kubernetes) do not have any default remote maven repository configured. This is intentionally designed to provide the flexibility for the users, so they can override and point to a remote repository of their choice. The out-of-the-box applications that are supported by Spring Cloud Data Flow are available in Spring’s repository, so if you want to use them, set it as the remote repository as listed below.

cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON '{"maven": { "remote-repositories": { "repo1": { "url": "https://repo.spring.io/libs-release" } } } }'

where repo1 is the alias name for the remote repository.

	Note
	If you need to configure multiple Maven repositories, a proxy, or authorization for a private repository, see Maven Configuration.

Configuring Defaults for Deployed Apps

You can also set other optional properties that alter the way Spring Cloud Data Flow will deploy stream and task apps:

• The default memory and disk sizes for a deployed application can be configured. By default they are 1024 MB memory and 1024 MB disk. To change these, as an example to 512 and 2048 respectively, use

  cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_MEMORY 512
  cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_DISK 2048

• The default number of instances to deploy is set to 1, but can be overridden using

  cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_INSTANCES 1

• You can set the buildpack that will be used to deploy each application. For example, to use the Java offline buildback, set the following environment variable

  cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_BUILDPACK java_buildpack_offline

• The health check mechanism used by Cloud Foundry to assert if apps are running can be customized. Current supported options are port (the default) and none. Change the default like so:

  cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_HEALTH_CHECK none

	Note
	These settings can be configured separately for stream and task apps. To alter settings for tasks, simply substitute STREAM with TASK in the property name. As an example, cf set-env dataflow-server SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_TASK_MEMORY 512

	Tip
	All the properties mentioned above are @ConfigurationProperties of the Cloud Foundry deployer. See CloudFoundryDeploymentProperties.java for more information.

We are now ready to start the app.

cf start dataflow-server

Alternatively, you can run the Admin application locally on your machine which is described in the next section.

To run the server application locally, targeting your Cloud Foundry installation, you you need to configure the application either by passing in command line arguments (see below) or setting a number of environment variables.

To use environment variables set the following:

export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_URL=https://api.run.pivotal.io
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_ORG={org}
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_SPACE={space}
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_DOMAIN=cfapps.io
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_USERNAME={email}
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_PASSWORD={password}
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_SKIP_SSL_VALIDATION=false

export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_SERVICES=rabbit
# The following is for letting task apps write to their db.
# Note however that when the *server* is running locally, it can't access that db
# task related commands that show executions won't work then
export SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_TASK_SERVICES=my_mysql

You need to fill in {org}, {space}, {email} and {password} before running these commands.

	Warning
	Only set 'Skip SSL Validation' to true if you’re running on a Cloud Foundry instance using self-signed certs (e.g. in development). Do not use for production.

Now we are ready to start the server application:

java -jar spring-cloud-dataflow-server-cloudfoundry-1.2.4.RELEASE.jar [--option1=value1] [--option2=value2] [etc.]

	Tip
	Of course, all other parameterization options that were available when running the server on Cloud Foundry are still available. This is particularly true for configuring defaults for applications. Just substitute cf set-env syntax with export.

	Note
	The current underlying PCF task capabilities are considered experimental for PCF version versions less than 1.9. See Feature Togglers for how to disable task support in Data Flow.

As an alternative to setting environment variables via cf set-env command, you can curate all the relevant env-var’s in manifest.yml file and use cf push command to provision the server.

Following is a sample template to provision the server on PCFDev.

---
applications:
- name: data-flow-server
  host: data-flow-server
  memory: 2G
  disk_quota: 2G
  instances: 1
  path: {PATH TO SERVER UBER-JAR}
  env:
    SPRING_APPLICATION_NAME: data-flow-server
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_URL: https://api.local.pcfdev.io
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_ORG: pcfdev-org
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_SPACE: pcfdev-space
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_DOMAIN: local.pcfdev.io
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_USERNAME: admin
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_PASSWORD: admin
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_STREAM_SERVICES: rabbit
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_TASK_SERVICES: mysql
    SPRING_CLOUD_DEPLOYER_CLOUDFOUNDRY_SKIP_SSL_VALIDATION: true
    SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON {"maven": { "remote-repositories": { "repo1": { "url": "https://repo.spring.io/libs-release"} } } }
services:
- mysql

Once you’re ready with the relevant properties in this file, you can issue cf push command from the directory where this file is stored.