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BOSH command line interface cheatsheet

Introduction

BOSH is a powerful tool to install and manage your deployments. You can find docs on https://bosh.io/docs. Consider using bosh-init tool to install to a cloud of your choice MicroBOSH instance (MicroBOSH is a single VM BOSH installation, it has everything that you need to deploy and manage).

Installing of BOSH CLI

BOSH command line interface is implemented as a ruby gem and can be run on every platform that supports ruby, you'll need to have ruby 2.1.x or higher to run it. To install it you can run gem install bosh_cli and gem update bosh_cli to update to a newer version.

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.ONESHELL:
.PHONEY: help set-env init update plan plan-destroy show graph apply output taint

help:
	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | sort | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'

set-env:
	@if [ -z $(ENVIRONMENT) ]; then\
		 echo "ENVIRONMENT was not set"; exit 10;\
	 fi

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# Makefile
# Author: Pivotal Support

# Modify the includes, sources, headers, executable and
# other flags accordingly!
INCLUDES = -I ./ -I/usr/local/include
LIBS = -L/usr/lib/ -lm

CC = g++
DEBUG = -g

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Run Book / Operations Manual

1. Table of Contents
2. System Overview
   • Service Overview
   • Contributing Applications, Daemons, and Windows Services
   • Hours of Operation
   • Execution Design
   • Infrastructure and Network Design
   • Resilience, Fault Tolerance and High-Availability

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Run Book / Operations Manual

1. Table of Contents
2. System Overview
   • Service Overview
   • Contributing Applications, Daemons, and Windows Services
   • Hours of Operation
   • Execution Design
   • Infrastructure and Network Design
   • Resilience, Fault Tolerance and High-Availability

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BOSH Links: Why and How

Audience: anyone in the BOSH ecosystem, whether you work on something open-source or proprietary

"BOSH Links" is a feature which simplifies how data is shared between BOSH-deployed jobs that need to collaborate with one another (e.g. a web server and its backing database). Like many BOSH things, the whole "BOSH Links" thing can seem counter-intuitive at first, and it may not be clear why things are the way they are. This note hopes to show some of the powerful benefits of BOSH Links, and provide examples and explanations that make things more intuitive.

1. Why?
2. BASIC: A simple problem statement
3. BASIC: Putting the puzzle pieces together
4. ADVANCED: But what about...

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```
$ bosh target 192.168.50.4 lite
Target set to 'Bosh Lite Director'
$ bosh targets

+--------------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Name                                 | Director URL               |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------+
| lite                                 | https://192.168.50.4:25555 |
+--------------------------------------+----------------------------+

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$ bosh vms
Acting as user 'admin' on 'Bosh Lite Director'
Deployment 'bui-warden'

Director task 17

Task 17 done

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$ bosh vms
Acting as user 'admin' on 'Bosh Lite Director'
Deployment 'bui-warden'

Director task 12

Task 12 done

+----------------------------------------------+---------+-----+----------+--------------+

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$ git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite && cd bosh-lite
Cloning into 'bosh-lite'...
remote: Counting objects: 5070, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 5070 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 5065
Receiving objects: 100% (5070/5070), 886.53 KiB | 1.03 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2949/2949), done.