In the fall of 2020, VMware sent a curt email to all subscribers on its PWS — Pivotal Web Services — platform informing them that come January 15th, 2021, they would need to move all of their…
Find out how to use BOSH Tags to quickly identify which Cost Center should get charged back for EC2 instances!…
Which BOSH deployed virtual machines can talk to each other, is the communication 1 way or 2 way? Use arpy to quickly discover the answer to these questions!…
Is there a performance problem with the BOSH database? How do you know? Use pgBadger to show PostgreSQL performance issues on BOSH.…
It's time for some good jq magic. I need to know where a specific release is deployed in the current environment. I also need to know which version of that release is deployed in each…
A long time ago, we at Stark & Wayne faced a problem with jumpboxen. Here's how we solved that problem... WITH DOCKER!…
What you easily see are usually consequences or symptoms, but not the root cause. "The Dev environment is down!!!" We heard louder screams from developers when the busy dev env was down than when the…
So I was trying to solve a problem in BOSH, under a Warden CPI and I came across this pretty nifty trick to tailor a release to a specific IaaS!…
The default username for BOSH VMs is vcap. We have two options when comes to the vcap password for BOSH and VMs that are deployed by BOSH. One is to harden the vcap password, and…
