Cloud Foundry for Developers

Structure of services on a service broker

Before we proceed further, let's discuss the structure of services on a service broker. A service broker publishes a list of services that it offers. For every service that is published, there must be at least one associated plan for that corresponding service. A service plan is simply a variant of the service that is offered. For example, there may be a plan that is free of charge but with limited disk capacity, and there may be another plan that has a higher disk capacity but has a cost associated with it. Thus, that is why when instantiating a service through cf create-service, it is necessary to specify the service name, the desired service plan, and an instance name that your applications can ...