Posts by: Ashley Gerwitz

One of the most requested features for Stark & Wayne kStreams (powered by Apache Kafka) was, "How do we share our Kafka topics between different Cloud Foundry spaces?" Great question, but it wasn’t in the domain of a service broker to break the fundamental isolation tenants of Cloud Foundry. Fortunately, the Cloud Foundry Services API

BUCC is the convention over configuration tool to make it easy to deploy the best, securest, most backupable BOSH/Concourse on a single VM. The Problem The bosh-deployment is the fantastic tool for deploying a BOSH VM to any infrastructure. A vanilla BOSH or one with UAA/CredHub. A BOSH that can deploy normal infrastructure VMs or

It is easier, faster, and cheaper to borrow GitHub for your next internal business app than to write your own login/reset-password/two-factor authentication/team management system. In 2018 it is easier than ever to write small bespoke web apps for your business. Pick a high-level web framework (Ruby on Rails, Spring/Java) with a high-level ORM, collect data

At Stark & Wayne we’ve been building out a set of internal web apps to help collect and pass information to the staff who need it. For example, one app pulls data from a primary source (such as timesheet entries) and at the end of the day it shares the information into a private Slack

Hey. Sometimes new major stemcells come out and they use newer versions of Linux and they break your stuff. Sometimes it’s your fault that your thing doesn’t work. Sometimes we blame Elon Musk because we have trouble taking responsibility for our mistakes. We’re sorry, Elon. The point is, you don’t want to use the latest

A typical web application will need services, such as databases and caches, to run. It will probably also need these services to run its test suite. In this blog post, we will look at how to set up and run PostgreSQL within Concourse CI prior to running our application’s test suite. The Problem For a

When you first hit the documentation page for BOSH, did you get the "wall of text" feeling of information overload? Some days I want to crack open the site, sit next to a roaring fireplace, and just read for days. The rest of the time I need the information, and I need it now. First

AWS, and vSphere, and OpenStack.. Oh My!!!! Lately, we’ve been playing with a feature that has us pretty excited. Multi-CPI BOSH has become a reality and we couldn’t wait to take it for test drive. With this feature we can target multiple and disparate IaaS from a single BOSH environment. Show Me, Show Me, Show

Coming to SpringOnePlatform next week? Myself (Dr Nic) and many Stark & Wayne team members will be in the Community Hub to talk about Kubernetes/CFCR, Cloud Foundry, Kafka, SHIELD and more. Come find us! Kubernetes is one of the newest components of a larger Cloud Foundry, deployed with BOSH, and known as CFCR – the