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Everybody has been talking about BOSH 2.0, and how it will solve all your problems. But what is this BOSH 2.0 thing, and where can I get me one of those? Unfortunately BOSH 2.0 is not one thing, it’s a combination of features, technologies and ideas, which together form the future of BOSH. Since talking

So you have familiarized your self with habitatbut your tired of spinning up docker containers manually and just want to use bosh to handle it all? Well that’s why I have build a generic bosh release for habitat that should be able to deploy all habitat services that are currently available. Please note that this

For the last year or so, at Stark & Wayne we’ve been developing production-grade data services that support highly available failover and automatic disaster recovery. We are planning for these data platforms to run 1000s of databases, so every failover and every user’s requirement for disaster recovery needs to work every time and without human

In a recent blog post I briefly discussed how to build, export and run a service packaged via a Habitat plan. In this post we will take a look at running Redis and backing it up via Shield. Running Redis To play around with the starkandwayne/redis release you can bring it up in the habitat

Stark & Wayne was fortunate to participate in OpenStack summit (Boston 2017). We’ve spent a lot of time coming up with internal best practices for automating Cloud Foundry and related services on different IaaS. Our codex documentation referenced in the talk can be found @ https://github.com/starkandwayne/codex See Xiujiao Gao speak about Automating Cloud Foundry on

Stark & Wayne was fortunate to participate in OpenStack summit (Boston 2017). With significant experience managing and deploying Cloud Foundry on various OpenStack flavors we were happy to talk about our experiences. See Bill Chapman speak about troubleshooting Cloud Foundry on OpenStack. Troubleshooting Cloud Foundry on OpenStack

Sometimes you want to run a BOSH errand from you concourse pipeline. For example after deploying Cloud Foundry using cf-deployment, you might want to make sure it is actually working by running the smoke-tests errand. The bosh-errand-resource has been available for some time but it uses the old Ruby CLI. Which in its self is

Occasionally you may run into an issue where the routes between the routers and nats are not in a consistent state. To detect this issue log onto a server with connectivity to your BOSH director and copy the following Bash script onto it: #!/usr/bin/env bash DEPLOYMENT=$1 RUSER=$2 RPASSWORD=$3 if [[ -z ${DEPLOYMENT} ]]; then echo

This is a hands on introduction to habitat.sh. It is a relatively new tool in the world of config management and aims to simplify many aspects of packaging / deploying and operating any kind of distributed systems regardless of the intended deploy target. Some of the features that I have found particularly useful are: Simple