Posts by: GeoffFranks

Bare Metal bosh-lite Revisited

A little over a year ago, Ruben Koster unleashed the bare-metal-bosh-lite project on us all, and showed us how to use it. Since then, things have changed a bit in the world of bosh-lite. It no longer uses Chef for setup – that is now handled by the bosh-provisioner project. As such, it was time

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Securing Private Domains on a Public Cloud Foundry

If you’re interested in hosting both public and private apps/microservices on the same Cloud Foundry, you aren’t alone. Unfortunately, at the time of the writing of that article, there weren’t many good options out there to accomplish it all. The haproxy job included with cf-release didnt (and still doesn’t) have any built-in support for blocking

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Customizing your BOSH VM’s root user profile

Ever wanted to get your own aliases, or vim/emacs settings inside BOSH VMs? With the root-env-boshrelease, now you can! I spend a significant amount of time inside bosh VMs troubleshooting releases or template changes. It wasn’t long before I wished I had my .inputrc, .vimrc, and aliases that I’m used to having at the command

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