CF Summit 2015

CF and brokered service installations are deployed and managed with BOSH. Historically, BOSH itself has also been deployed with BOSH. That bootstrapping process was largely hard-coded, inflexible, and only allowed deploying to known supported infrastructures. It also required installing Ruby, legion native packages, the BOSH CLI, and an additional 'micro' plugin gem.

Enter BOSH Micro CLI: a new Go binary for bootstrapping a single-VM BOSH using the Cloud Provider Implementation (CPI) of your choice.

Now you can deploy BOSH directly onto any infrastructure that has a CPI, without having to maintain a fork of BOSH, opening the door for up to date BOSH and CF on infrastructures like Google Compute Engine and IBM SoftLayer.

We will demonstrate bootstrapping BOSH and discuss the various steps, components, inputs, and dependencies.