Stackato Local VM Environment Notes

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Similar to my Cloud Foundry environment notes I was interested what Stackato puts on top of the Cloud Foundry framework. This was running in a local VM that I downloaded from their site.

Deploying the app

Still using the same test code

After spending quite some time on trying to set the JAVA_OPTS, I instead changed the source code to use the environment variable instead of server.port and server.address and then re-pushed

mkdir build
cd build
unzip ../target/simple-executable-jar-web-server-0.0.1.jar
cd ..
stackato push --path /xdata/local/dev/markus/git/simple-executable-jar-web-server/build

The app worked after my code changes and the test server was up and running, but I could not log into the web console, anymore, thought I had the password wrong, but then used

stackato passwd

and it accepted my old password. Besides Firefox remembered the same password.

A server restart helped. Since I usually only pause my VMs it might have gotten confused.,

Runtime Environment and Properties

Environment

'HOME' = '/home/stackato/app'
'JAVA_OPTS' = '-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST'
'LANG' = 'en_US.UTF-8'
'LANGUAGE' = 'en_US.UTF-8'
'LC_ALL' = 'en_US.UTF-8'
'LOGNAME' = 'stackato'
'MAIL' = '/var/mail/stackato'
'MEMORY_LIMIT' = '256m'
'NLSPATH' = '/usr/dt/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat'
'OLDPWD' = '/home/stackato/app'
'PACKAGES_COMMON' = 'git'
'PATH' = '/opt/ActivePython-2.7/bin:/opt/ActivePython-3.3/bin:/opt/ActivePerl-5.16/bin:/opt/rubies/current/bin:/opt/node-v0.10/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
'PORT' = '58761'
'PWD' = '/home/stackato/app'
'SHELL' = '/bin/bash'
'SHLVL' = '2'
'SSH_CLIENT' = '172.17.42.1 51755 22'
'SSH_CONNECTION' = '172.17.42.1 51755 172.17.0.86 22'
'STACKATO_APP_ENV' = 'JAVA_OPTS'
'STACKATO_APP_NAME' = 'simple-executable-jar-web-server'
'STACKATO_APP_NAME_UPCASE' = 'SIMPLE_EXECUTABLE_JAR_WEB_SERVER'
'STACKATO_APP_ROOT' = '/home/stackato'
'STACKATO_DOCKER' = 'True'
'STACKATO_LOG_FILES' = 'stdout=/home/stackato/logs/stdout.log:stderr=/home/stackato/logs/stderr.log'
'STACKATO_SERVICES' = '{}'
'TMPDIR' = '/home/stackato/tmp'
'USER' = 'stackato'
'VCAP_APPLICATION' = '{"instance_id":"e20054cb47ed479c843142b480e12f52","instance_index":0,"host":"0.0.0.0","port":58761,"started_at":"2014-06-02 06:33:19 -0700","started_at_timestamp":1401715999,"start":"2014-06-02 06:33:19 -0700","state_timestamp":1401715999,"limits":{"mem":256,"disk":2048,"fds":16384,"allow_sudo":false},"application_version":"8c5b4b0a-5e50-4d69-bf92-f4fe7c5ef0ec","application_name":"simple-executable-jar-web-server","application_uris":["simple-executable-jar-web-server.stackato-cr6q.local"],"sso_enabled":false,"version":"8c5b4b0a-5e50-4d69-bf92-f4fe7c5ef0ec","name":"simple-executable-jar-web-server","uris":["simple-executable-jar-web-server.stackato-cr6q.local"],"users":null}'
'VCAP_APP_HOST' = '0.0.0.0'
'VCAP_APP_PORT' = '58761'
'VCAP_SERVICES' = '{}'
'XFILESEARCHPATH' = '/usr/dt/app-defaults/%L/Dt'
'_' = '/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/bin/java'

System Properties

'awt.toolkit' = 'sun.awt.X11.XToolkit'
'file.encoding' = 'UTF-8'
'file.encoding.pkg' = 'sun.io'
'file.separator' = '/'
'java.awt.graphicsenv' = 'sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment'
'java.awt.printerjob' = 'sun.print.PSPrinterJob'
'java.class.path' = '/home/stackato/app/.'
'java.class.version' = '51.0'
'java.endorsed.dirs' = '/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/endorsed'
'java.ext.dirs' = '/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/ext:/usr/java/packages/lib/ext'
'java.home' = '/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk'
'java.io.tmpdir' = '/home/stackato/tmp'
'java.library.path' = '/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib'
'java.runtime.name' = 'OpenJDK Runtime Environment'
'java.runtime.version' = '1.7.0_60-b19'
'java.specification.name' = 'Java Platform API Specification'
'java.specification.vendor' = 'Oracle Corporation'
'java.specification.version' = '1.7'
'java.vendor' = 'Oracle Corporation'
'java.vendor.url' = 'http://java.oracle.com/'
'java.vendor.url.bug' = 'http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/'
'java.version' = '1.7.0_60'
'java.vm.info' = 'mixed mode'
'java.vm.name' = 'OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM'
'java.vm.specification.name' = 'Java Virtual Machine Specification'
'java.vm.specification.vendor' = 'Oracle Corporation'
'java.vm.specification.version' = '1.7'
'java.vm.vendor' = 'Oracle Corporation'
'java.vm.version' = '24.80-b07'
'line.separator' = '    '
'os.arch' = 'amd64'
'os.name' = 'Linux'
'os.version' = '3.8.0-30-generic'
'path.separator' = ':'
'sun.arch.data.model' = '64'
'sun.boot.class.path' = '/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/resources.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/rt.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/jsse.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/jce.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/charsets.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/jfr.jar:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/classes'
'sun.boot.library.path' = '/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/open_jdk/lib/amd64'
'sun.cpu.endian' = 'little'
'sun.cpu.isalist' = ''
'sun.io.unicode.encoding' = 'UnicodeLittle'
'sun.java.command' = 'at.mnm.util.SimpleTestWebServer'
'sun.java.launcher' = 'SUN_STANDARD'
'sun.jnu.encoding' = 'UTF-8'
'sun.management.compiler' = 'HotSpot 64-Bit Tiered Compilers'
'sun.os.patch.level' = 'unknown'
'user.country' = 'US'
'user.dir' = '/home/stackato/app'
'user.home' = '/home/stackato'
'user.language' = 'en'
'user.name' = 'stackato'

Adding services

Wanted to add the service via the web UI but did not immediately see how.

stackato create-service mysql testdb simple-executable-jar-web-server

Afterwards the following new environment properties were added :

> 'DATABASE_URL' = 'mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777'
> 'JDBC_MYSQL_URL' = 'jdbc:mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777'
> 'MYSQL_URL' = 'mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777'

And these changed : < ‘STACKATO_SERVICES’ = ‘{}’ —

‘STACKATO_SERVICES’ = ‘{“testdb”:{“name”:”d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777″, “hostname”:”172.16.127.133″,”host”:”172.16.127.133″,”port”:3306, “user”:”ucLE9lXtowAqf”,”username”:”ucLE9lXtowAqf”,”password”:”pYSRyL7jO1vgi”, “uri”:”mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777″, “jdbcUrl”:”jdbc:mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777″}}’

< 'VCAP_SERVICES' = '{}'
---
> 'VCAP_SERVICES' = '{"mysql":[{"name":"testdb","label":"mysql-5.5","tags":[],
    "plan":"free","credentials":{"name":"d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777",
    "hostname":"172.16.127.133","host":"172.16.127.133","port":3306,
    "user":"ucLE9lXtowAqf","username":"ucLE9lXtowAqf","password":"pYSRyL7jO1vgi",
    "uri":"mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777",
    "jdbcUrl":"jdbc:mysql://ucLE9lXtowAqf:pYSRyL7jO1vgi@172.16.127.133:3306/d415c91f5251b450d9a3c20c45b5d7777"}}]}'

VCAP_APPLICATION seemed to change like for CloudFoundry – but unrelated to to service.

and this system proeprty changed, simialr to Cloud Foundry:

< 'java.class.path' = '/home/stackato/app/.'
---
> 'java.class.path' = '/home/stackato/app/.:/home/stackato/app/.java-buildpack/maria_db_jdbc/maria_db_jdbc-1.1.7.jar'

Appendix : How to Not Set Environment

Not sure how this should have worked, but it didn’t for me…

I wanted to set Java System Properties to pass in the server.address and server.port. The same worked for Cloud Foundry

Tried to figure out the right amount of escaping … this is what we want to see: ‘JAVA_OPTS’ = ‘-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST’

stackato set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "-Dserver.port=\\\$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=\\\$VCAP_APP_HOST"
Unknown option -Dserver.port

stackato set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS '-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST'
Unknown option -Dserver.port


stackato set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS '\-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST'
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS=\-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '\-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST'
...




stackato set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS '\"-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST\"'
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS=\"-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST\"] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '\-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT'
...


stackato set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "\"-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST\""
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS="-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '"-Dserver.port=45238 \-Dserver.address=0.0.0.0"'
...

stackato env-add simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "\"-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST\""
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS="-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '"-Dserver.port=43998 \-Dserver.address=0.0.0.0"'
...


stackato set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "\-Dserver.port=\\\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\\\$VCAP_APP_HOST"
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS=\-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '\-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST'
...


stackato env-add simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "\"-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST\""
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS="-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '"-Dserver.port=48420 -Dserver.address=0.0.0.0"'
...

stackato env-add simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "\"-Dserver.port=\\\$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=\\\$VCAP_APP_HOST\""
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS="-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST"] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '"-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"'
...


stackato env-add simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "\-Dserver.port=\\\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\\\$VCAP_APP_HOST"
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS=\-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '\-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT \-Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST'
...

stackato env-add simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS '"-"Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT "-"Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST"'
Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS="-"Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT "-"Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST"] ... 
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '"-"Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT "-"Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"'
...

giving up. I use the way it works descibed at http://community.activestate.com/node/9487 (or I could use cf).

vi build/stackato.yml

app-dir: /xdata/local/dev/markus/git/simple-executable-jar-web-server/build
disk: 2048
memory: 256
name: simple-executable-jar-web-server
env:
JAVA_OPTS: "-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"


stackato push --path /xdata/local/dev/markus/git/simple-executable-jar-web-server/build
...
app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '"-"Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT "-"Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST"'
...


stackato env-del simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS
Deleting Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS] ... 



stackato push --path /xdata/local/dev/markus/git/simple-executable-jar-web-server/build
Using manifest file "build/stackato.yml"
...
Enter JAVA_OPTS [-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST]: 
  Adding Environment Variable [JAVA_OPTS=-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST]
...

but no JAVA_OPTS and no system properties

stackato env-del simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS


cf login  --skip-ssl-validation -a https://api.stackato-cr6q.local
API endpoint: https://api.stackato-cr6q.local
...

cf set-env simple-executable-jar-web-server JAVA_OPTS "-Dserver.port=\\\$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=\\\$VCAP_APP_HOST"
Setting env variable 'JAVA_OPTS' to '-Dserver.port=\$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=\$VCAP_APP_HOST' for app simple-executable-jar-web-server in org mnm.at / space demos as admin...
OK
TIP: Use 'cf push' to ensure your env variable changes take effect

rm build/stackato.yml 
stackato push --path /xdata/local/dev/markus/git/simple-executable-jar-web-server/build

even though this time the JAVA_OPTS variable looks right:

app[stdout.0]:    'JAVA_OPTS' = '-Dserver.port=$VCAP_APP_PORT -Dserver.address=$VCAP_APP_HOST'

there is not server.port system property. so it seems that the build back is different (though it is the java build pack)

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