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bosh-lite

A lite development env for BOSH

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What it is

A lite development env for BOSH

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0122014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsDec 20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 2017

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What Hacker News says

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jacques_chester·Jun 11, 2017
I get this question a lot. PCFDev[0] if you just want a dev environment to tinker with. You can also tinker with cflocal[1] (unsupported) or BOSH-lite[2] (somewhat-supported) if you're looking to practice ops as well. A lot of Cloud Foundry teams do integration testing with BOSH-lite on large single VMs, because it essentially presents BOSH with a "VM" interface that spins up nested containers instead. You can, in theory, deploy however few or however many real VMs, or bare metal servers, as you wish, by editing a BOSH manifest. By default the cf-deployment[3] manifest uses something like 23 VMs of varying sizes. That's because the default manifest is intended for production use with multi-AZ HA as the minimum level of reliability. If you don't need that, one of the alternatives I noted will get you what you want. [0] https://pivotal.io/p
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cf-dev [1] https://github.com/sclevine/cflocal [2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite [3] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-deployment
In PAAS Comparison – Dokku vs. Flynn vs. Deis vs. Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm
parasubvert·Dec 28, 2014
Cloud Foundry + BOSH, IME, does exactly that. http://bosh.cloudfoundry.org https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite https://github.com/CloudCredo/dockpush You download a BOSH release for your infrastructure, tweak the manifest for your chosen cloud, and push the deployment out. If you make a change, you just push it out. Cloud Foundry itself (the elastic runtime) is a BOSH application that includes an HAPRoxy load balancer, dynamic router, and allows you to easily push/scale the stateless micro services and declaratively wire them up with other services you've deployed (with CF or Bosh). It can run on AWS, vSphere, OpenStack, or on your own Vagrant VM in containers (bosh-lite). Or you can use Pivotal Web Services public cloud: http://run.pivotal.io BOSH requires some wrestling early on but I find it to be a fascinating project.
In Microservices – Not a free lunch
jacques_chester·Dec 28, 2014
> Is there a tool that would let me describe the infrastructure and deploy it on a given cloud provider but also have the ability to deploy the same infrastructure on my local machine (using VMs/docker) for development purposes. Depending on your concept of "deploy", I can point you to two options, both produced by the company I work for. If you think in terms of controlling from the VM up, look at BOSH[1]. It's an IaaS deployment / management / update tool which has been used in production for several years. You create two yaml files: a release manifest (describing the software components of your system) and a deployment manifest (describing the computers and networks of your system and how to map components to them). This separation means that a single release manifest can be applied to many different actual deployments. At my day job I
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deploy a large PaaS release into a single virtual machine. My colleagues deploy exactly the same release into AWS with thousands of machines. Systems defined using BOSH can be deployed to AWS, vSphere, OpenStack or Warden (a containerisation system). For local development, the Warden backend enables "BOSH lite"[2] -- releasing and deploying into a virtual machine that hosts a local cloud of containers. If you want to go the next level up to a proper PaaS, you can try Cloud Foundry[3]. It's defined as a BOSH release[4], which is how at my day job my co-workers and I are able to work both locally and at scale on identical software. In Cloud Foundry we distinguish between stateless (apps) and stateful (services) software, and we provide a simple way to connect them. The easiest way to play with it is to log into Pivotal Web Services. IBM Bluemix is the same software and is also open to the public. So for example, with Cloud Foundry, if you want ten copies of your app, you do this: $ cf scale my_app -i 10 And it'll be scaled up to 10 instances. Need more RAM? $ cf scale my_app -m 2G Now each node gets 2Gb. And so on. [1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh [2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite [3] http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/ [4] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release
In Microservices – Not a free lunch

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