Cloud Foundry Deep Dive, Part 2: Architecture and Operations

Workshop Requirements

This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.

All parts will require:

• Git (“brew install git”)
• Your favorite Java editor (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Netbeans)
• The Cloud Foundry CLI - download the latest!

Needless to say you'll need a laptop! For best experience, a Mac or Linux environment is ideal (it's technically possible to get most of this working on Windows, but it's VERY DIFFICULT). Also, you'll need at least 8 GB of RAM to support running Cloud Foundry locally without too much of a performance hit.

Part one of the workshop will require a free account on Pivotal Web Services. You can create a 60-day trial with no credit card at https://run.pivotal.io.

Parts two and four will require the use of BOSH Lite. More instructions will be provided at the conference. But, to ease setup, please install the following dependencies (in addition to those for part one!):

• Virtualbox
• Vagrant
• Ruby 1.9.3 (rbenv or RVM are great options!)
• The BOSH CLI Ruby Gem (after installing Ruby via one of the version managers, “gem install bosh_cli” will do the trick)
• Spiff

Part Three will require the use of a FREE Cloudbees account. Create one at https://grandcentral.cloudbees.com. Once you're set up, click on “Get Started with Builds” to provision your Jenkins instance. We'll complete the remainder of the setup during the lab, but it's important to get the Jenkins instance provisioned in advance so that you don't lose 10 minutes of workshop time!

It will also require the use of a FREE TRIAL account of Artifactory Online from JFrog. You can obtain an account at https://www.jfrog.com/registration/registration.html. This one is a bit quicker, but you still should try to create it before the workshop.