BOSH is a tool for deploying and managing distributed systems. It is used to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry, an open source cloud application platform, among other things. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps to install BOSH on a Fedora Server.
Before we begin, ensure that your Fedora Server is up-to-date by running the following command:
sudo dnf update
Next, we need to install some dependencies required for BOSH. Run the following command to install them:
sudo dnf install -y ruby ruby-devel gcc gcc-c++ make openssl-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libsqlite-devel postgresql-devel mysql-devel
The first step is to install the BOSH command-line interface (CLI) on your Fedora Server. The CLI is used to interact with the BOSH Director, which is the central component of BOSH.
Run the following command to install the BOSH CLI:
gem install bosh_cli --no-document
Once the installation is complete, verify that the BOSH CLI is working by running the following command:
bosh version
You should see the version number of the BOSH CLI displayed.
The next step is to set up a BOSH environment. This involves creating a deployment manifest, which defines the properties of the BOSH Director, and deploying it to a cloud.
BOSH supports a number of clouds, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will use a local development environment, known as bosh-lite, which runs on a virtual machine.
Run the following commands to download the bosh-lite repository and switch to its directory:
git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite.git
cd bosh-lite
Next, run the following command to create the deployment manifest:
./scripts/generate-bosh-lite-dev-manifest
This will create a file named bosh-lite.yml in the current directory.
The next step is to deploy the BOSH Director using the deployment manifest that we created in the previous step.
Run the following command to deploy the BOSH Director:
bosh create-env bosh-lite.yml
This command may take several minutes to complete, as it is creating a virtual machine, setting up the BOSH Director, and installing various components.
Once the deployment is complete, run the following command to target the BOSH Director:
bosh -e 192.168.50.4 login
Replace 192.168.50.4 with the IP address of your BOSH Director.
The final step is to install the BOSH CLI plugin for Cloud Foundry. This plugin is used to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry using BOSH.
Run the following command to install the plugin:
bosh -e 192.168.50.4 --ca-cert <(bosh int ./creds.yml --path /director_ssl/ca) alias-env cf
bosh -e cf login
bosh -e cf update-cloud-config ~/workspace/cf-deployment/iaas-support/bosh-lite/cloud-config.yml
Congratulations, you have successfully installed BOSH on your Fedora Server! You can now use it to deploy and manage distributed systems, such as Cloud Foundry.
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