Creating a platform

Overview

If you need a platform that’s not already available in our platforms repository it’s pretty easy to create a new one based on a existing one.

To tsuru to be able to use your platform you only need to have the following scripts available on /var/lib/tsuru:

• /var/lib/tsuru/deploy
• /var/lib/tsuru/start

Using docker

Now we will create a whole new platform with docker, circus and tsuru basebuilder. tsuru basebuilder provides to us some useful scripts like install, setup and start.

So, using the base platform provided by tsuru we can write a Dockerfile like that:

from    ubuntu:14.04
run apt-get install wget -y --force-yes
run wget http://github.com/tsuru/basebuilder/tarball/master -O basebuilder.tar.gz --no-check-certificate
run mkdir /var/lib/tsuru
run tar -xvf basebuilder.tar.gz -C /var/lib/tsuru --strip 1
run cp /var/lib/tsuru/base/start /var/lib/tsuru
run cp /home/your-user/deploy /var/lib/tsuru
run /var/lib/tsuru/base/install
run /var/lib/tsuru/base/setup

Adding your platform to tsuru

If you create a platform using docker, you can use the tsuru-admin cmd to add that.

$ tsuru-admin platform-add your-platform-name --dockerfile http://url-to-dockerfile