A couple of weeks ago, right before going on what turned out to be a glorious vacation in the sun, I stood up a local Cloud Foundry on my laptop using the cf-vagrant-installer from Altoros. Turns out there was a bug in a couple of the configuration files (pull request has already been merged) which […]
We have Cloud Foundry running in the lab, BOSH deployed, in a vSphere environment. While I worked with a colleague to deploy that Cloud Foundry, and I focused on understanding what was going on with services deployments, I was perfectly content to have him get us to the point where we could do that Cloud […]
Part IV in a three part series 😉 In Part II I went into a little bit of detail on how the echo service gateway and node work, in collaboration with the actual echo server. Or rather, in this case, how the node does not work with the echo server at all. The echo_node implementation […]
When starting out with Cloud Foundry you are likely to use vmc for most of your communications with the cloud, but under the covers, vmc just fires off HTTP requests to the cloud controller REST interface. This REST interface is completely legitimate for you to use, either “by hand” with something like curl, or from […]
In this last of a three part series on learning how to add services to a Cloud Foundry cloud we’ll deploy the echo service into a BOSH-based deployment. In part II you’ll find a more detailed description of the parts of a system service implementation, and also a description of and link to an updated […]
In the first post of this three part series, I went through the steps we took to deploy the sample Echo service to a non-BOSH-based, single node cloud foundry instance, and in the last part we’ll do the deployment into a BOSH-based cloud foundry. In this post I want to spend just a bit of […]
There are a lot of things we want to do with Cloud Foundry, at the moment we are focusing on adding services such as Cassandra. We’ve been studying the code for existing Cloud Foundry services (i.e. Postgres) and we’ve deployed the sample Echo service, a couple of times. This was a pretty significant investment that […]
I love micro cloud foundry. I spend a fair bit of time on airplanes, and I hate not being able to work because my internet connection is flaky in some hotel room so being self sufficient when I am doing dev is critical. So good thinking, and thanks Cloud Foundry team. Micro cloud foundry is […]
I struggled a bit with this today but as is often the case, one little tweak (okay, really two) and I was good to go. I did lots of googling in the process and found many sources for information on building Git from source but most were a bit older and out of date in […]
This post is a bit late – in fact two months late, but what I want to tell you about is interesting enough, the goodness knows the topic remains relevant enough to warrant carrying on. So here goes. On April 17 was the third annual WS-REST Workshop, a WWW Conference workshop. I didn’t attend the […]