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Use Latest Major Stemcell Version

Hey. Sometimes new major stemcells come out and they use newer versions of Linux and they break your stuff. Sometimes it’s your fault that your thing doesn’t work. Sometimes we blame Elon Musk because we have trouble taking responsibility for our mistakes. We’re sorry, Elon. The point is, you don’t want to use the latest

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Using Concourse CI to test your web app and PostgreSQL

A typical web application will need services, such as databases and caches, to run. It will probably also need these services to run its test suite. In this blog post, we will look at how to set up and run PostgreSQL within Concourse CI prior to running our application’s test suite. The Problem For a

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ProTip: Find BOSH Docs Fast

When you first hit the documentation page for BOSH, did you get the "wall of text" feeling of information overload? Some days I want to crack open the site, sit next to a roaring fireplace, and just read for days. The rest of the time I need the information, and I need it now. First

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SHIELD v8 using UAA

Overview The upcoming release of SHIELD v8 adds support for GitHub and UAA authentication providers. Previous versions of SHIELD only supported basic auth. Many organizations already heavily rely on GitHub and UAA to organize users and permissions within an organization. You will be able to leverage these existing authentication providers to grant access to SHIELD.

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Multi CPI BOSH: One BOSH to Rule Them All

AWS, and vSphere, and OpenStack.. Oh My!!!! Lately, we’ve been playing with a feature that has us pretty excited. Multi-CPI BOSH has become a reality and we couldn’t wait to take it for test drive. With this feature we can target multiple and disparate IaaS from a single BOSH environment. Show Me, Show Me, Show

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Deploy Kubernetes to an Existing BOSH Environment

Coming to SpringOnePlatform next week? Myself (Dr Nic) and many Stark & Wayne team members will be in the Community Hub to talk about Kubernetes/CFCR, Cloud Foundry, Kafka, SHIELD and more. Come find us! Kubernetes is one of the newest components of a larger Cloud Foundry, deployed with BOSH, and known as CFCR – the

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What Apps are Running on a Diego Cell

Ever wonder which applications are running on a particular Diego cell? There is a nifty article on the Pivotal Knowledge Base which goes through how to find this info in PCF 1.7. This points us to getting the list of application process guids for the cell by curling rep. The user Muni Chada in the

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Save 85% on your Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes hosting bill with this one simple trick

Running your own Cloud Foundry will give you large hosting bills. Kubernetes, whilst having a substantially smaller initial footprint, will still run up a reasonable hosting bill each month. If only there was a way to save 85% of your monthly bill! Allow me to introduce you to the BOSH AWS CPI property spot_bid_price and

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Helpful CCDB Queries to Show Active Organizations

I will likely get dirty looks for querying the CCDB directly but I’m a recovering DBA. API endpoints are nice, I like database queries. If you don’t know how to connect to the CCDB database you probably shouldn’t be using this blog post 🙂 To get the list of Organizations and the number of application

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