We know that when it comes to self-service a key thing is to be able to select services you need from a catalog/marketplace. In the Cloud Foundry world, and increasingly in the K8s world, we had the Open Service Broker API (OSBAPI). This ability is one of the most…
Playing in the lab the today I came across a scenario in which a pks create-cluster failed; pks cluster team Name: team Plan Name: small UUID: 3ef60125-5f93-4b98-b50c-7050b6877fdc Last Action: CREATE Last Action State: failed Last Action Description: Instance provisioning failed: There was a problem completing your request. Please contact your…
We all like to make our lives easier in technology with tooling (well most of us do), be that CI/CD/monitoring/scans/git repos, however, how can we deploy these functions in a way that makes our lives easier? If you ask this same question to a group of…
Before I start with "why" Bosh, what is Bosh? It is... an open source tool for release engineering, deployment, life-cycle management and monitoring of distributed systems installs and updates software packages on large numbers of VMs over many Iaas providers, with the absolute minimum of configuration changes orchestrates…
Do you get business value in focusing on the intricate details of a solution and thinking through every scenario and factoring the design around them? In the past I would spend way too much time focusing on the detail and flexing my technical muscles by tweaking nerd knows and turning…
Now that I have joined Pivotal and focusing on Cloud Foundry, which up until now I only knew from a high-level, I thought I would take you on my knowledge journey..... So what is Cloud Foundry and what's Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Cloud Foundry is an open source project, Pivotal take…
Part of the value add of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is helping new users with Operations Manager. One of the features is the ability to upload tiles to aid with the deployment of components (like Elastic Run Time, MySQl service, Metrics etc.). After being involved in a number of customer…
To help me learn bosh I decided to install Bosh-Lite on my Mac. The instructions to get yourself up an running are here, including more information. What is Bosh-Lite and how can it help? Firstly it is a self-contained, pre-built, vagrant box that includes a Bosh Director. Rather than instantiating…
Finally getting around to doing this blog, it's been a busy few months with lots of change coming in the new year for me. I have been discussing automation and cloud strategies with customers for a while now and the themes that come up time and time again when discussing…
Introduction As part of a small working group I have been working on how to demonstrate some of the Cisco solutions from a cross-architectural perspective. If you are not familiar with the internal structure for our pre-sales organisation we have account teams that cover all the technologies and then teams…