Posts by: Ashley Gerwitz
Running your own Cloud Foundry will give you large hosting bills. Kubernetes, whilst having a substantially smaller initial footprint, will still run up a reasonable hosting bill each month. If only there was a way to save 85% of your monthly bill! Allow me to introduce you to the BOSH AWS CPI property spot_bid_price and
Cloud Foundry can be wonderfully simple to use for 99% of web applications. It is now even more wonderful and more simple by allowing us to install Debian packages. Cloud Foundry containers do not grant root access, so installing Debian packages has not been possible. But it now is with the apt buildpack. With or
OpenCV is a fast computer vision and deep learning library. We’re excited to make OpenCV available to every Cloud Foundry application through a new buildpack: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/opencv-buildpack What can OpenCV do? Firstly, it can determine that the author is human. And it does other things too. I first used it on a tiny RaspberryPi with a
Here at Stark & Wayne, we’ve been heads-down for the past several months, working on the next iteration of SHIELD, our data protection solution. We’ve got a lot of great stuff in store, and I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the major features we will be launching with SHIELD v8. (If
As we gear up to launch SHIELD v8 at the end of 2017, it occurs to me that SHIELD is nearing its second birthday. To celebrate, I thought I’d take a look back through SHIELD two-year history. (You may also be interested in previewing some of SHIELD v8’s forthcoming features, in SHIELD: Looking Forward) In
The BOSH v263 release added an exciting new feature – the ability to run one-off tasks (called errands) inside existing instances. A BOSH deployment is the top-level first-class citizen of running things with BOSH. Typically a BOSH deployment will be one or more long-running instances on your target cloud infrastructure. For example, you could use
Sometimes, the bosh task table gets backed up with pending tasks. Maybe a stuck task created a pile-up. Or maybe your monitoring system blasted the BOSH API during an update and now you have 200 tasks all with a created_at of the Unix epoch. Who knows? That’s not what this is about. This is about
Gemalto’s https://cf-hsm.io is HSM-as-a-service with the API being the Open Service Broker API. This was fantastic as I’d been working on a CLI that interacts with any Open Service Broker API called Eden. Welcome to Eden! What is the Open Service Broker API? There are a class of applications that provide a service to other
Have you ever needed to fill in a YAML template without adding any other tools other than your friendly neighborhood BASH? Here is how you can do it. Let’s start with a YAML file with BASH variables in it. —- # ${sample} nats: password: "${nats_password}" username: ‘${nats_username}’ machines: ${nats_machines} Cut and paste the above YAML