Posts by: Quintessence Anx

Recently, I ran into a situation where my BOSH lite deployment was in a “funky state” (technical term). In my case, “funky state” means: I could not upgrade Cloud Foundry I could not successfully complete any BOSH deployments, even those working elsewhere Running vagrant destroy and then trying again did not resolve the problem. I

Runners, or droplet execution agents (DEAs), are used to run your applications in Cloud Foundry. Runners in the Deployment Manifest To provide high availability, your deployment manifest has runner_z1 and runner_z2. The properties for each runner will look like this (shown for runner_z1): The configuration for runner_z2 will be almost identical to runner_z1, except that

It’s not uncommon to need to make changes to a command after entering it in the command prompt. For example, perhaps you need to reuse a command from the history but with a small change or perhaps you need to fix a typo. Luckily, Unix command prompts support both Emacs (default) and Vi(m) key bindings

I was reading an article today called Bad UX and User Self Blame that discussed a few cultural things that we have all experienced in the tech world: There are apparently two camps of people: the "I’m not a technical person" and the "tech user" camps "Tech users" not always being kind to "not tech

I attended PGConf NYC 2015 on March 26-27. Going to conferences is awesome, in my opinion, because there is an amazing collection of minds available. Minds interested in the same topic you are, which in the nerdosphere(TM) is sometimes hard to come by. Before getting started discussing my favorite talks, I would like to send

As part of a project we’re working on, we needed to install the BOSH CLI on a Digital Ocean droplet running CentOS 7. The directions at bosh.io provided a list of all the packages that needed to be installed prior to installing the gem: yum install gcc ruby ruby-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel postgresql-libs sqlite-devel libxslt-devel libxml2-devel

What is the Health Monitor? The purpose of the Health Monitor (HM) is to monitor all existing apps and ensure that the appropriate number of instances are running. If there is a discrepancy, then the HM will either prompt the Cloud Controller to start new instances (if there are too few) or stop existing instances

Want to play with Cloud Foundry without using TryCF (requires AWS) or setting up a trial account with one of the PaaS providers out there (e.g. PWS)? Why not set it up on your own laptop? Getting Started The 411 on my laptop: 2012 Retina Macbook Pro 16 GB RAM 768 GB SSD 2.7 GHz

This is a quick "how to" for how Long found the information he needed to build the cf info plugin. Following a trail of breadcrumbs Determine the requirements: Print the currently targeted org and space Print the API version and endpoint Print the user id of the current user (similar to whoami in *nix OSes).