Cloud Foundry CLI AutoScaler Plug-in

App-AutoScaler plug-in provides the command line interface to manage App AutoScaler service policies, retrieve metrics and scaling history.

Set up

To set up the development, follow the steps below

$ git clone git@github.com:cloudfoundry-incubator/app-autoscaler-cli-plugin.git
$ cd app-autoscaler-cli-plugin
$ source .envrc
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Build and install

Run the following script to build the AutoScaler plug-in for your OS

scripts/build

To install the plugin to cf cli

cf install-plugin out/ascli

To uninstall the plugin

cf uninstall-plugin AutoScaler

Command List

Command	Description
autoscaling-api, asa	Set or view AutoScaler service API endpoint
autoscaling-policy, asp	Retrieve the scaling policy of an application
attach-autoscaling-policy, aasp	Attach a scaling policy to an application
detach-autoscaling-policy, dasp	Detach the scaling policy from an application
autoscaling-metrics, asm	Retrieve the metrics of an application
autoscaling-history, ash	Retrieve the scaling history of an application

Command usage

cf autoscaling-api

Set or view AutoScaler service API endpoint

cf autoscaling-api [URL] [--unset] [--skip-ssl-validation]

ALIAS: asa

OPTIONS

• --unset: Unset the api endpoint
• --skip-ssl-validation : Skip verification of the API endpoint. Not recommended!

cf autoscaling-policy

Retrieve the scaling policy of an application

cf autoscaling-policy APP_NAME [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: asp

OPTIONS

• --output : dump the policy to a file in JSON format

cf attach-autoscaling-policy

Attach a scaling policy to an application

cf attach-autoscaling-policy APP_NAME PATH_TO_POLICY_FILE

ALIAS: aasp

cf detach-autoscaling-policy

Detach the scaling policy from an application

cf detach-as-policy APP_NAME

ALIAS: dasp

cf autoscaling-metrics

Retrieve the metrics of an application

cf autoscaling-metrics APP_NAME METRIC_NAME [--start START_TIME] [--end END_TIME] [--desc] [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: asm

OPTIONS

• METRIC_NAME : available metric supported: memoryused, memoryutil, responsetime,throughput.
• --start : start time of metrics collected with format "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm" or "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", default to very beginning if not specified.
• --end : end time of the metrics collected with format "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm" or "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", default to current time if not speficied.
• --desc : display in descending order, default to ascending order if not specified
• --output : dump the metrics to a file

cf autoscaling-history

Retrieve the scaling history of an application.

cf autoscaling-history APP_NAME [--start START_TIME] [--end END_TIME] [--desc] [--output PATH_TO_FILE]

ALIAS: ash

OPTIONS

• --start : start time of the scaling history with format "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm" or "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", default to very beginning if not specified.
• --end : end time of the scaling history with format "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss+/-HH:mm" or "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ", default to current time if not speficied.
• --desc : display in descending order, default to ascending order if not specified
• --output : dump the scaling history to a file