Pivotal Application Service > Application Inventory Report

2019-03-21: THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT

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This is a Spring Boot application that employs the Reactive support in both the Pivotal Application Service Java Client and your choice of either Spring Boot Starter Data Mongodb or rxjava2-jdbc with an HSQL backend. These libraries are employed to generate custom application inventory detail and summary reports from a target foundation. It may optionally be configured to send an email to recipient(s) with those reports attached.

While the cf-app-inventory-report does not take the place of an official foundation Accounting Report, it does provide a much more detailed snapshot of all the applications that were currently running at the time of collection. The Accounting Report is focussed on calculating aggregates (on a monthly basis) such as: (a) the total hours of application instance usage and (b) the largest # of application instances running (a.k.a. maximum concurrent application instances).

Prerequisites

Required

• Pivotal Application Service account

Optional

• Email account
• SMTP Host
• SendGrid account

Tools

• git 2.20.1 or better
• JDK 11 or better
• cf CLI 6.41.0 or better

Clone

git clone https://github.com/pacphi/cf-app-inventory-report.git

How to configure

Make a copy of then edit the contents of the application.yml file located in src/main/resources. A best practice is to append a suffix representating the target deployment environment (e.g., application-pws.yml, application-pcfone.yml). You will need to provide administrator credentials to Apps Manager for the foundation if you want to get a complete inventory of applications.

You really should not bundle configuration with the application. To take some of the sting away, you might consider externalizing and/or encrypting this configuration.

Managing secrets

Place secrets in config/secrets.json, e.g.,

{
	"CF_API-HOST": "xxxxx",
	"CF_USERNAME": "xxxxx",
	"CF_PASSWORD": "xxxxx",
	"MAIL_FROM": "xxxxx",
	"MAIL_RECIPIENTS": "xxxxx",
	"SENDGRID_API-KEY": "xxxxx"
}

We'll use this file later as input configuration for the creation of either a credhub or user-provided service instance.

Replace occurrences of xxxxx above with appropriate values

Minimum required keys

At a minimum you should supply values for the following keys

• cf.apiHost - a Pivotal Application Service API endpoint
• token.provider - Authorization token provider, options are: userpass or sso

Based on choice the authorization token provider

Username and password

• cf.username - a Pivotal Application Service account username (typically an administrator account)
• cf.password - a Pivotal Application Service account password

Single-sign on

• cf.refreshToken - the refresh token to be found within ~/.cf/config.json after your authenticate

Email notification

• notification.engine - email provider, options are: none, java-mail or sendgrid

If you set the email provider to none, then no email will be delivered

for java-mail

• spring.mail.host - an SMTP host
• spring.mail.username - an email account username
• spring.mail.password - an email account password
• mail.from - originator email address
• mail.recipients - email addresses that will be sent an email with CSV attachments

for sendgrid

• spring.sendgrid.api-key - an api key for your SendGrid account
• mail.from - originator email address
• mail.recipients - email addresses that will be sent an email with CSV attachments

to choose between backends

If you edited the contents of application.yml then you could set spring.profiles.active to one of either mongo or jdbc.

E.g., you could start the app with an HSQL backend using

./gradlew bootRun -Dspring.profiles.active=jdbc

If you copied and appended a suffix to the original application.yml then you would set spring.profiles.active to be that suffix

E.g., if you had a configuration file named application-pws.yml

./gradlew bootRun -Dspring.profiles.active=pws

See the samples directory for some examples of configuration when deploying to Pivotal Web Services or PCFOne.

to override the default download URL for Embedded Mongo

On application start-up, a versioned Mongo executable is downloaded from a default location (addressable from the public internet). If you would like to download the executable from an alternate location and/or select an alternate version, add the following:

• spring.mongodb.embedded.verson - version of the Mongo executable (e.g., 3.4.15)
• spring.mongodb.embedded.download.path - the path to the parent directory hosting OS-specific sub-directories and version(s) of Mongo executables (e.g., https://fastdl.mongodb.org/)
• spring.mongodb.embedded.download.alternate - this is a boolean property and must be set to true to activate alternate download URL

As an example, the following

spring:
  mongodb:
    embedded:
      version: 3.4.15
      download:
        path: https://fastdl.mongodb.org/
        alternate: true

would download the Mongo executable from https://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-3.4.15.tgz when the app is running on a Mac OSX host.

OS-specific sub-directory choices are: linux, win32, and osx. See https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#community for more details.

to set the delivery Schedule

Update the value of the cron property in application.yml. Consult this article and the Javadoc to understand how to tune it for your purposes.

Troubleshooting

To have access to a database management console which would allow you to execute queries against the in-memory database, you will need to set an additional JVM argument.

-Djava.awt.headless=false

Note: this is not an available option when deploying to a PAS foundation.

How to Build

./gradlew build

How to Run

./gradlew bootRun -Dspring.profiles.active={backend_provider}

where {backend_provider} is either mongo or jdbc

You'll need to manually stop to the application with Ctrl+C

How to deploy to Pivotal Application Service

with Username and password authorization

The following instructions explain how to get started when token.provider is set to userpass

Authenticate to a foundation using the API endpoint.

E.g., login to Pivotal Web Services

cf login -a https://api.run.pivotal.io

with SSO authorization

The following instructions explain how to get started when token.provider is set to sso

Authenticate to a foundation using the API endpoint

E.g., login to PCF One

cf login -a https://api.run.pcfone.io -sso

Visit the link in the password prompt to retrieve a temporary passcode, then complete the login process

E.g., https://login.run.pcfone.io/passcode)

Inspect the contents of ~/.cf/config.json and copy the value of RefreshToken.

Paste the value as the value for CF_REFRESH-TOKEN in your config/secrets.json

{
  "TOKEN_PROVIDER": "sso",
  "CF_API-HOST": "xxxxx",
  "CF_REFRESH-TOKEN": "xxxxx",
}

using scripts

Deploy the app (w/ a user-provided service instance vending secrets)

./deploy.sh

Deploy the app (w/ a Credhub service instance vending secrets)

./deploy.sh --with-credhub

Shutdown and destroy the app and service instances

./destroy.sh

What does this task do?

Utilizes cf CLI to query foundation for application details across all organizations and spaces for which the account is authorized. Generates an email with a couple of attachments, then sends a copy to each recipient.

Subject

Sample

PCF Application Inventory Report

Body

Sample

Please find attached application inventory detail and summary reports from api.run.pivotal.io generated 2018-05-30T10:55:08.247.

Attachments

Detail

Sample app-inventory-detail.csv

organization,space,application name,buildpack,image,stack,running instances,total instances,urls,last pushed,last event,last event actor,requested state
Northwest,cphillipson,cloud-native-spring-ui,,java,cflinuxfs2,0,1,cloud-native-spring-ui-riskiest-ghee.cfapps.io,2017-12-13T15:56:26,,,stopped
Northwest,sdeeg,nodefire-smd,nodejs,,cflinuxfs2,1,1,nodefire-smd.cfapps.io,2018-05-03T17:14:10,,,started
Northwest,cphillipson,cloud-native-spring,java,,cflinuxfs2,0,1,cloud-native-spring-laboured-estragon.cfapps.io,2017-12-13T14:54:18,,,stopped
zoo-labs,test,cphillipson-ruby-demo,ruby,,cflinuxfs2,1,1,cphillipson-ruby-demo.cfapps.io,2018-05-29T13:25:36,audit.app.droplet.create,cphillipson@pivotal.io,started
zoo-labs,test,cook,java,,cflinuxfs2,0,1,cook-impressive-bonobo.cfapps.io,2018-05-10T16:48:18,audit.app.stop,cphillipson@pivotal.io,stopped
Northwest,nthomson,bookstore-connector,java,,cflinuxfs2,1,1,bookstore-connector.cfapps.io,2018-04-09T16:40:23,,,started
Northwest,nthomson,bookstore-service-broker,java,,cflinuxfs2,1,1,bookstore-service-broker.cfapps.io,2018-04-09T12:49:41,,,started
...

Summary

Sample app-inventory-summary.csv

organization,total
Northwest,32
zoo-labs,4

buildpack,total
java,25
unknown,5
staticfile,2
dotnet,2
ruby,1
nodejs,1

last pushed,application total
<= 1 day,2
> 1 day <= 1 week,11
> 1 week <= 1 month,6
> 1 month <= 3 months,3
> 3 months <= 6 months,6
> 6 months <= 1 year,8
> 1 year,0

state,instance total
started,14
stopped,30
all,44

Total applications: 36

On-demand Endpoints

For additional convenenience REST endpoints have been exposed for on-demand reporting. Report results are refreshed on the cron schedule mentioned above.

GET /report

Produces text/plain output combining detail and summary application info

GET /users

Produces application/json output containing user/role details for all orgs/spaces.

GET /users/{organization}/{space}

Produces application/json output containing user/role details for one org/space.

Credits

Tip of the hat to those who've gone before...

• Baeldung 1, 2
• John Thompson
• Josh Long
• Mohit Sinha
• Pas Apicella
• Robert Watkins
• David Moten
• Robert B Roeser