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Deploying Cloud Foundry on OpenStack using Terraform

This manual will guide you through the steps necessary to deploy Cloud Foundry using Terraform on OpenStack. A tremendous amount of automation has been put in place to allow you to quickly deploy Cloud Foundry in an easy and repeatable way. Installing to AWS can be found here. Overview There are four primary steps to

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Configuring OpenStack for Cloud Foundry

Assumptions: OpenStack is already installed If OpenStack Juno is used, make sure this patch is applied You are provided an admin login or an administrator follows the steps in ‘Create A New User’ and provides you the credentials An external network has been created An Ubuntu image is already uploaded We will: Create a new

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OpenStack Juno Static IP Patch

There is a bug in OpenStack Juno which prevents BOSH from assigning static IPs. This can be quite an issue when trying to install Cloud Foundry on OpenStack. There is a very simple fix: Log into Controller Node From the Mirantis Fuel Dashboard navigate to Nodes > Controller and click on the gear icon. The

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Wait until SSH is available

Ever run into a situation where you need to ssh into a newly created server but you aren’t sure that the server is listening on the ssh port yet? For the Terraform OpenStack install of Cloud Foundry the Bastion server isn’t immediately available for the provision script to run. Below is a short bash script

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Updates to terraform-aws-cf-install and terraform-openstack-cf-install

There have been a couple exciting changes to the two Cloud Foundry provisioning projects for AWS and OpenStack which make deploying Cloud Foundry to these two infrastructures even easier than before. See this link for instructions on deploying Cloud Foundry to AWS, one for OpenStack is coming soon so check the blog again soon. make

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Easy Deployment of Cloud Foundry on AWS using Terraform

Welcome! This manual will guide you through the steps necessary to deploy Cloud Foundry using Terraform on Amazon Web Services. A tremendous amount of automation has been put in place to allow you to quickly deploy Cloud Foundry in an easy and repeatable way. If you know your AWS access key credentials, skip straight to

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How to install Splunk and the Boundary plugin on a new CentOS 6.5 install

Basic Setup As root execute the following to download and install some basic linux apps: sudo su – yum install git wget vim htop lsof iftop -y Download the Installer Now we will download the appropriate linux installer for Splunk wget -O splunk-6.1.1-207789-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm ‘http://www.splunk.com/page/download_track?file=6.1.1/splunk/linux/splunk-6.1.1-207789-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm&ac=&wget=true&name=wget&platform=Linux&architecture=x86_64&version=6.1.1&product=splunk&typed=release’; New or additional downloads are available at http://www.splunk.com/download?r=header Run the installer

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Automating root password on MySQL 5.6

So, I spent an unreasonable amount of time attempting to automate the install of MySQL 5.6 for a client. Apparently one of the newer features in MySQL is the creation of a temporary password file when MySQL is first intalled. I want to use this password file to reset the root password as the root

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