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David Malone
David Malone

Reputation: 95

Cloud Foundry permissions required for create-buildpack command

What roles must be assigned to users to allow them to upload custom buildpacks via the CF CLI create-buildpack and update-buildpack commands?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 920

Answers (2)

christo4ferris
christo4ferris

Reputation: 4037

As noted, buildpack administration is restricted to administrators of the Cloud Foundry environment. However, if you just want to use a custom or 3rd party buildpack that is not already installed, you can specify the buildpack to be used eg.

cf push myapp -b https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-play.git

The only drawback to this approach is that the buildpack needs to be downloaded, so will be a bit longer than a cf push that uses an installed buildpack. However, for use of the BYOB (bring your own buildpack) feature, you don't need to talk to an administrator;-)

Upvotes: 1

Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson

Reputation: 1686

Creating buildpacks is restricted to Cloud foundry Administrators. Cloud Foundry administrators cannot be created using the cf tool, rather use the UAA Command Line Interface (UAAC).

It is important to note that any user who can push applications into a Cloud Foundry space can use custom buildpacks without needing admin permissions or installing them by simply specifying a URL in the cf push command or manifest.

Upvotes: 1

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