Oh my, is it possible that It’s been more than three months since I posted here? In my defense, I have another blog that I now post on – well, a few actually, including blog.gopivotal.com and blog.cloudfoundry.org. I’ll post a summary of my recent submissions with links soon. I am, in fact, about to go […]
Recently I’ve had several customers ask about whether quota definitions can be changed, both in the OSS product and in PCF. The short answer is “yes”. Here’s the longer: First, for those of you who might be unfamiliar with quotas, they are assigned to organizations and basically limit consumption within that organization. A quota definition […]
More than two years ago on the CF blog the availability of Micro Cloud Foundry was announced – this was a version of Cloud Foundry that would run on a laptop. It came in the form of a vmdk that you could run either using VMWare Workstation or VMWare Fusion. Later posts talked about a […]
(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 […]