What is BOSH? Why do I need it?

CF Summit Berlin 2015

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1. What is BOSH? Why do I need it?
3. software is eating the world — Marc Andreessen, Netscape inventor
4. Mission "Ability to do your job"
5. time to value build a factory for software — Jonathan Murray, Microsoft & WMG
6. @drnic VP, Engine Yard CEO, Stark & Wayne
7. social change • agile / time to value • infrastructure as code • platform contracts
8. economy changes • ops expense vs cap exp • higher utilization • pay as you go
9. technology changes 2009 - apt-get install 2011 - vagrant up 2013 - docker run 2015 - bosh deploy
10. sys admin dissatisfied tools for deploying and continuously changing systems
11. Cloud Foundry BOSH provides lifecycle orchestration of systems homogenous across clouds
12. unlike manually nurturing snowflakes BOSH consistent ops experience
13. Before BOSH
14. Why BOSH? systems constantly changing
15. Cloud Foundry 30 versions in 52 wks
16. secret sauce inside & out
17. Only BOSH director → cloud → create vm agent → linux → start processes director → cloud → attach disk agent → linux → mount disk
18. killer feature - resize disks → create/attach bigger disk - outside → mount bigger disk - inside → stop processes - inside → copy data - inside → remount bigger disk - inside → detach/destroy smaller disk - outside
19. killer feature - consistent ops jobs: - name: database templates: [{name: postgresql}] persistent_disk: 20240 Apply any manifest change $ bosh deploy
20. killer feature - simple ci
22. killer features resize disks consistent ops simple ci
23. limitation Deploy-time assignment of processes to servers Deploy-time configuration management solution Cloud Foundry Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm
24. limitation Networking people touch things solution Terraform, Git
25. Easy to upgrade BOSH bosh-init deploy bosh.yml Systems continue running during upgrade. Over 70 BOSH versions in 12 months. name: bosh releases: - name: bosh url: https://bosh.io/d/.../bosh?v=219 - name: bosh-aws-cpi url: https://bosh.io/d/.../bosh-aws-cpi-release?v=36 ...
26. bosh.io - 77
27. Easy to create new BOSH releases bosh-gen new <ourthing> bosh create release bosh upload release ./templates/make_manifest warden bosh deploy bosh-gen errand tests bosh run errand tests bosh-gen new
28. bosh-lite & snowwhite 7 little bosh-lites on AWS snowwhite new drnic snowwhite list snowwhite target drnic bosh upload release ... snowwhite ssh drnic
29. spruce.cf
30. it's time for BOSH