Posts by: Ashley Gerwitz
Here’s the problem. I am working with the same system but three distinct environments – running different versions and having different purposes. All three look exactly the same. It gets very confusing. The following is so much clearer: Each tab is unique – a different favicon (coloured background) and title prefix (e.g. [1.11]). I was
I have been investigating using BOSH with Windows stemcells to help Windows developers have all the delights of BOSH for their deployment lifecycle. Very quickly in the journey I created bugs that needed debugging, and it wasn’t the same debugging experience for a BOSH/Linux deployment. I got help. Hopefully the debugging tips below are helpful
For the last year or so, at Stark & Wayne we’ve been developing production-grade data services that support highly available failover and automatic disaster recovery. We are planning for these data platforms to run 1000s of databases, so every failover and every user’s requirement for disaster recovery needs to work every time and without human
Stark & Wayne was fortunate to participate in OpenStack summit (Boston 2017). We’ve spent a lot of time coming up with internal best practices for automating Cloud Foundry and related services on different IaaS. Our codex documentation referenced in the talk can be found @ https://github.com/starkandwayne/codex See Xiujiao Gao speak about Automating Cloud Foundry on
Stark & Wayne was fortunate to participate in OpenStack summit (Boston 2017). With significant experience managing and deploying Cloud Foundry on various OpenStack flavors we were happy to talk about our experiences. See Bill Chapman speak about troubleshooting Cloud Foundry on OpenStack. Troubleshooting Cloud Foundry on OpenStack
One of the greatest devops tools in 2017 will be BOSH – the outer shell for cloud software. I recently summarized why BOSH is still unique in our profession in an article BOSH turns five! If you’re intrigued, you might want to know how to get started? Or how to do something useful? In this
BOSH helps us with many simple conventions: packages are a single folder full of files, job templates are a folder full of monit script, bin and configuration files, and manifests have a nice structure to them. But beyond these conventions, with over 100 BOSH releases in existence over the last five years, there are many
This article follows along from our series of articles on deploying BOSH and Cloud Foundry using the wonderful new bosh2 CLI. Bootstrap BOSH 2.0 with local VirtualBox Running Cloud Foundry with BOSH 2.0 Now that you have Cloud Foundry running, you’ll discover it doesn’t do much without some stateful services into which you will store
Our applications need access to secrets – passwords, tokens, special URLs. Platforms like Cloud Foundry and Heroku have made environment variables easy to use, and so we use them. Albeit they are typically not as secretive as we might like. Here’s a one-liner to look up every secret that you have access to across all