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Install any Debian package with your Cloud Foundry app

Cloud Foundry can be wonderfully simple to use for 99% of web applications. It is now even more wonderful and more simple by allowing us to install Debian packages. Cloud Foundry containers do not grant root access, so installing Debian packages has not been possible. But it now is with the apt buildpack. With or

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Running your Own DNS Server in Cloud Foundry

Overview I ran across a nifty trick today to deploy a local DNS for Cloud Foundry. We all deserve nice things so I figured I would share. We have a Cloud Foundry environment which is being migrated across infrastructures and need to test different scenarios keeping system and run urls the same as the old

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ELB & Instance Information From AWS CLI with IAM Profile

Overview Every once in a while you will find an organization which will not give you AWS Console access so you have to become handy using the AWS CLI for managing the infrastructure underneath BOSH. Fear not, the CLI can be used to retrieve even more information than the Console. You will need to retrieve

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Add Computer Vision to your Cloud Foundry app using OpenCV

OpenCV is a fast computer vision and deep learning library. We’re excited to make OpenCV available to every Cloud Foundry application through a new buildpack: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/opencv-buildpack What can OpenCV do? Firstly, it can determine that the author is human. And it does other things too. I first used it on a tiny RaspberryPi with a

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SHIELD: Looking Forward

Here at Stark & Wayne, we’ve been heads-down for the past several months, working on the next iteration of SHIELD, our data protection solution. We’ve got a lot of great stuff in store, and I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the major features we will be launching with SHIELD v8. (If

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Running Habitat Apps on Cloud Foundry

Habitat is an Open Source project that allows you to package your apps in a Platform/Runtime agnostic way. This blog post discusses the recently added Cloud Foundry exporter that enables running Apps packaged in Habitat to run on Cloud Foundry. Build the App We’ll be using this demo app as an example. First lets build

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SHIELD: A Look Back

As we gear up to launch SHIELD v8 at the end of 2017, it occurs to me that SHIELD is nearing its second birthday. To celebrate, I thought I’d take a look back through SHIELD two-year history. (You may also be interested in previewing some of SHIELD v8’s forthcoming features, in SHIELD: Looking Forward) In

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Collocated BOSH errands: Run one-off tasks inside your instances

The BOSH v263 release added an exciting new feature – the ability to run one-off tasks (called errands) inside existing instances. A BOSH deployment is the top-level first-class citizen of running things with BOSH. Typically a BOSH deployment will be one or more long-running instances on your target cloud infrastructure. For example, you could use

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Mounting Multiple Persistent Disks with BOSH

There are many use cases for needing multiple persistent disks to be mounted to a BOSH deployed VM. We are working on a DC/OS BOSH Release which requires multiple disks to be mounted to the mesos-agent servers, one for /var/vcap/store and one as a raw disk for Docker. Before we dive into how this is

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