(cross-posted from the Cloud Foundry blog) First a little background, and then a story. As Matt described here, Cloud Foundry BOSH has a great capability to perform rolling updates automatically to an entire set of servers in a cluster, and there is a defensive aspect to this feature called a “canary” that is at the […]
During a conference-rich week two weeks ago, Pivotal was invited to participate in a coding contest that was a part of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) held at Moscone. The event hosted 15-20 college students, forming two teams that would compete against an Intel team; the task: build an innovative application for junior high math students. The main thing the applications would be judged on was cloud-readiness, and this is where Pivotal came in – the applications would be deployed to Cloud Foundry.
Our standard demo for Cloud Foundry has us in a directory where either some source code or an application package (war, zip, etc.) is sitting and then we do a cf push A handful of messages will appear on the screen, like: Uploading hello… OK Preparing to start hello… OK —–> Downloaded app package (4.0K) […]
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 […]