In the last post on the topic of Bosh I put together a simple Cloud Foundry environment using the tools & repos of Stark & Wayne. Even though the bootstrap is a great way to get an environment up and started, it doesn’t explain a lot of things about Bosh. So let’s take a look... Continue reading →

After the previous blog entry I wrote up, working through getting vagrant to spool up a vmware image I got a few other suggestions via Twitter. @adron Delete the “.vagrant” directory. — Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) April 26, 2013 @adron @mitchellh @jeffsussna @dberkholz @monkchips @sogrady did you delete your .vagrant subfolder and try again with –provider... Continue reading →

I’ve started using Vagrant pretty regularly. I downloaded Virtual Box and been tinkering away with some of the vagrant packages. The one huge bummer was that I was under the delusion that it only worked with Vagrant. Then, I was told by a fellow coder that I needed to check out the VMware Fusion plugin.... Continue reading →

I finally sat down and really started to take a stab at Cloud Foundry Bosh. Here’s the quick lowdown on installing the necessary bits and getting an initial environment built. Big thanks out to Dr Nic @drnic, Luke Bakken & Brain McClain @brianmmcclain for initial pointers to where the good content is. With their guidance... Continue reading →

For a quick recap of last years Deploycon & related talks, check out my “Day #3 => DeployCon && Enterprise && Data Gravity” entry from last year. PaaS Systems aren’t always effectively distributed. Heroku has fallen over every time east-1 has gone down at AWS. Not that I’m saying they’ve done bad, just pointing that... Continue reading →