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 bigger deployments (for example cf-release + cf-services-contrib + logsearch).
Preperation
Before we can start with installing bosh-lite we first have to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 on our box. Which can be downloaded here. After following the installation instructions you should have a server with ssh access. We will use knife solo from our development machine to install bosh-lite on the target box.
Installation
- Clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/bare-metal-bosh-lite
cd bare-metal-bosh-lite
- Prepare your box by installing chef
STATIC_IP=<ip of your box>
knife solo prepare [email protected]$STATIC_IP
- Edit the created node file
sed "s/STATIC_IP/$STATIC_IP/g" nodes/example_node.json > nodes/$STATIC_IP.json
- Install bosh-lite
knife solo cook [email protected]$STATIC_IP
Next steps
When your bosh-lite is up and running you can following these instructions to install Cloud Foundry.
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