Bosh workspace

This is a bosh cli plugin for creating reproducible and upgradable deployments.

Getting started

Before you start make sure ruby, bundler and spiff are available on your system. Instructions for installing spiff can found here.

Creating a workspace repository

First you will have to create a new repo for our company called Foo Group (short FG).

git init fg-boshworkspace
cd fg-boshworkspace

Lets create the initial files & directories.

mkdir deployments templates
echo -e 'source "https://rubygems.org"\n\ngem "bosh-workspace"' > Gemfile
echo "2.1.0" > .ruby-version
echo -e '.stemcells*\n.deployments*\n.releases*\n.stubs*\n' > .gitignore

Now install the gems by running bundler.

bundle install

Lets finish by making an initial commit.

git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"

Creating a first deployment

For demonstration purposes we will deploy Cloud Foundry on bosh-lite. The steps below will show the bosh-workspace equivalent of bosh-lite manual deploy instructions.

Before we start make sure you have access to properly installed bosh-lite.

We will start by targetting our bosh-lite.

bosh target 192.168.50.4
bosh login admin admin

Now lets create our deployment file.

cat >deployments/cf-warden.yml <<EOL
---
name: cf-warden
director_uuid: current

releases:
  - name: cf
    version: latest
    git: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release.git

stemcells:
  - name: bosh-warden-boshlite-ubuntu-lucid-go_agent
    version: 60

templates:
  - cf/cf-deployment.yml
  - cf/cf-jobs.yml
  - cf/cf-properties.yml
  - cf/cf-resource-pools.yml
  - cf/cf-infrastructure-warden.yml
  - cf/cf-minimal-dev.yml

meta:
  default_quota_definitions:
    default:
      memory_limit: 102400 # Increased limit for demonstration purposes
EOL

Now lets use this deployment and upload it's dependencies.

bosh deployment cf-warden
bosh prepare deployment

Lets make sure to above template paths exist.

ln -s ../.releases/cf/templates templates/cf

To finish we only have to start the deployment process and commit our changes.

bosh deploy
git add . && git commit -m "Added cf-warden deployment"

Congratulations you should now have a running Cloud Foundry. For further reference on how to start using it go to the bosh-lite documentation.

Using private boshreleases

When using a boshrelease from a location which requires authentication a .credentials.yml file is required, located at the root of your boshworkspace. Two types of authentication are supported: username/password and sshkey.

Example .credentials.yml file:

- url: https://github.com/example/top-secret-boshrelease.git
  username: foo
  password: bar
- url: ssh://[email protected]/example/super-secret-boshrelease.git
  private_key: |
    -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
    MIICXAIBAAKBgQDHFr+KICms+tuT1OXJwhCUmR2dKVy7psa8xzElSyzqx7oJyfJ1
    JZyOzToj9T5SfTIq396agbHJWVfYphNahvZ/7uMXqHxf+ZH9BL1gk9Y6kCnbM5R6
    0gfwjyW1/dQPjOzn9N394zd2FJoFHwdq9Qs0wBugspULZVNRxq7veq/fzwIDAQAB
    AoGBAJ8dRTQFhIllbHx4GLbpTQsWXJ6w4hZvskJKCLM/o8R4n+0W45pQ1xEiYKdA
    Z/DRcnjltylRImBD8XuLL8iYOQSZXNMb1h3g5/UGbUXLmCgQLOUUlnYt34QOQm+0
    KvUqfMSFBbKMsYBAoQmNdTHBaz3dZa8ON9hh/f5TT8u0OWNRAkEA5opzsIXv+52J
    duc1VGyX3SwlxiE2dStW8wZqGiuLH142n6MKnkLU4ctNLiclw6BZePXFZYIK+AkE
    xQ+k16je5QJBAN0TIKMPWIbbHVr5rkdUqOyezlFFWYOwnMmw/BKa1d3zp54VP/P8
    +5aQ2d4sMoKEOfdWH7UqMe3FszfYFvSu5KMCQFMYeFaaEEP7Jn8rGzfQ5HQd44ek
    lQJqmq6CE2BXbY/i34FuvPcKU70HEEygY6Y9d8J3o6zQ0K9SYNu+pcXt4lkCQA3h
    jJQQe5uEGJTExqed7jllQ0khFJzLMx0K6tj0NeeIzAaGCQz13oo2sCdeGRHO4aDh
    HH6Qlq/6UOV5wP8+GAcCQFgRCcB+hrje8hfEEefHcFpyKH+5g1Eu1k0mLrxK2zd+
    4SlotYRHgPCEubokb2S1zfZDWIXW3HmggnGgM949TlY=
    -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

Install Notes

OSX

cmake isneeded and libssh2 is optionally (only needed when using cloning over ssh)

brew install cmake libssh2 pkg-config

Ubuntu

cmake and libcurl4-openssl-dev is needed for rugged install

sudo apt-get install cmake libcurl4-openssl-dev libssh2-1-dev

Experimental

dns support

Dns support can be enabled by adding a domain_name property to your deployment. For example: domain_name: microbosh or if you are using a normal bosh just use bosh. When enabled, a transformation step will be executed after the spiff merge. Which will transform all the static ip references into domain names.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

List of Contributors

• Swisscom
• Stark & Wayne