How to deploy service in Cloud Foundry?

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I am a newbie in CloudFoundry and I will appreciate your help.

So, I need to create CF ServiceBroker for our product and I try to figure out how to do it properly.

I've found in the documentation types of deployments:

https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/overview.html

The following are examples of valid deployment models.

1) Entire service packaged and deployed by BOSH alongside Cloud Foundry

2) Broker packaged and deployed by BOSH alongside Cloud Foundry, rest of the service deployed and maintained by other means.

3) Broker (and optionally service) pushed as an application to Cloud Foundry user space

4) Entire service, including broker, deployed and maintained outside of Cloud Foundry by other means

I've seen so far examples of deployment type 3 and 4 - it is obvious - all I need just to implement ServiceBroker API, deploy it and create service broker with the command 'cf create-service-broker'. And with these deployment type, I need to maintain my service back end. For example, if my service provides MongoDB as a service, I need to have the server (for example in Amazon) with installed MongoDB database. And ServiceBroker will delegate all apps there.

But I can't find any examples of 1 and 2 deployment type. As I understood so far the first deployment type allows to deploy ServiceBroker and Service backend on Cloud Foundry. So, with this type, I need not to have the separate server with installed MongoDB, but I can deploy, somehow, Mongo database to the CloudFoundry.

So, my questions are:

1) is my understanding correct?

2) is there are any examples how to deploy service broker and service backend on CLoudFounry?

Thank you for your help.

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What type of service? Which Bluemix? What kind of account do you have? What privileges? A good start: github.com/IBM-Bluemix/Bluemix-ServiceBroker - data_henrik

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1) No, it allows you to deploy your own releases/deployment alongside with CloudFoundry (or on a separate IaaS) using bosh.

The proper question to ask is "How to create a bosh release for my application and service broker with bosh v2 manifest deployment".

2) The best way is to look on existing projects within https://github.com/cloudfoundry and https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community, like https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-mysql-deployment and https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-mysql-release

More on https://bosh.io/docs#basic-deploy and https://bosh.io/docs/manifest-v2.html

Prepare for a high learning curve.