Cloud Foundry for Developers

Binding a service to the application

So, let's now bind our service, my-database-service, from the previous section and see what happens. Run the command, as follows:

cf bind-service hello-spring-cloud my-database-service 

Figure 8: The result of performing servicing binding between the Hello Spring Cloud application and the my-database-service

This command will bind the service, named my-database-service, that we created earlier to our application named hello-spring-cloud. If we refreshed our browser for the same application page, you might be surprised to find that it would show up to be the same Figure 7. This is because we performed the ...