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A year with CF and BOSH…Automating yourself out of a job (don’t worry, EVERYONE in CF is hiring)

Matt JohnsonTroy Astle

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Who are we?

Cisco.

Based in London.

Giving people nice things.

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In the beginning…

Playing with CloudFoundry

Deploying by trial and error

Learning through debugging

Tripped up V1 documentation

“Borrowing” manifests and chunks of yaml

Manually building and verifying CF deployments

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“I’ve got a running CloudFoundry system, and if you’ve ever tried to run CloudFoundry and BOSH, you may never have got to this point…”

Dr Nic Williams, CEO Stark & Wayne, CF Platform 2013

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The BOSH learning curve

Day 1: Why do I need BOSH?

Day 2: I already know X why should I learn BOSH

Day 10: BOSH is OK

Day 12: BOSH is Awesome

Day 30: I got to get me some more BOSH

Day 100: I can make BOSH better...

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Things got a whole lot better

Fortnightly open source CF releases

BOSH public stemcells

Spiff is great

Community support

Sample manifests

Got us to developer beta…

Too many CF’s to manage maintain

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More Cloud Foundry, less pain

Deploy, Test and Upgrade CF using Jenkins & BOSH

Separate CF manifest from environment manifest, merge with Spiff

Create new deployments using the same CF manifest, guarantee consistency

Project named C3CIJoint work between Cisco and CloudCredoAvailable on Github

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C3CI JenkinsBOSH Release

Base CFmanifest

Environment specific manifest

BOSH + Jenkins + Spiff + NYET + Magic = CF

CF BOSH Release

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Consistency without development lockdown

Environment specific manifest

Prod Branch - Consistent base manifestOnly Environment specifics change

Dev Branch A Dev Branch B Dev Branch X

Branch allows development and testing of anypart of the deployment manifest

Base CF manifest

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Jenkins BOSH deploy.

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Whats next for us?

We’re still working… Haven’t automated all the things (yet)

Scalable monitoring

Persistent log storage and analysis

Custom services & brokers

Scaling Out

Multi-DC

Sharing the love

Developer Training

BOSH Skills Transfer

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Thank youMatt Johnson

matjohn2@cisco.com@mattdashj

github.com/freighttrain/C3CI

Troy Astle

tastle@cisco.com@buggalo

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