Posts by: Ruben Koster

Getting started with BOSH cloud-config

Back in April Dmitriy Kalinin shared his idea for cloud-config with the world. To keep service brokers (and other users of BOSH) IaaS agnostic, IaaS resource configuration (networks, resource_pools, disk_pools, compilation) can be configured per the Director such that service brokers only references those resources by name. The initial implmentation quickly followed and has been

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Update bosh-lite to latest BOSH

Somtimes you want to play with new BOSH features which have not yet made it into a bosh-lite box. In those cases there is a quick way to update your existing bosh-lite with the latest available final BOSH release of BOSH. First clone bosh-lite of you have not done so already: For completeness also install

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Logsearch on Bosh-lite in 10 minutes

Ever just wanted to play around with Logsearch but did not have the time to figure out how to deploy it? Today I went though the troubles of creating deployment manifests and have shared them in the logsearch-boshworkspace. Preparation To get started you will need a running bosh-lite. Get yours by following the instructions here

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Easy Cloud Foundry upgrading with bosh-workspace

Doing an initial Cloud Foundry deployment can be hard, keeping it up to date with the weekly releases can be even harder. So together with Swisscom we have developed the bosh-workspace gem to simplify this process. What better way to introduce a new tool then by having a step by step tutorial. The objective today

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Bosh-lite on bare-metal

I have been thinking about doing somthing usefull with my lab server for a while now, but today I finally did. By using it as a bare-metal bosh-lite box. Why bare-metal? I wanted to see if cutting out the virtualisation layer would make the whole setup more stable. Which would mean being able to test

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