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    SSH into a running BOSH job

    • introduction
      • Welcome to Onboarding Week!
    • deploy oss
      • Install bosh-bootloader and dependencies
      • Install Google Cloud SDK
      • Create a GCP service account
      • Pave your IaaS and stand up a BOSH Director with `bbl up`
      • Connect to your BOSH environment
      • Learn you some DNS, TLS, and Load Balancing
      • Choose a domain and create TLS certificates
      • Create load balancers
      • Set domain nameservers
      • Update number of compilation workers in cloud-config
      • Select a stemcell for your BOSH deployment
      • Deploy CF using BOSH + cf-deployment
      • Entertain yourself during the CF deploy "intermission"
      • Login to CF CLI using creds from Credhub
      • Dive into CLIs
      • Party on, Garth
    • app development
      • Create an org and space
      • Create a new user
      • Push a sample app
      • HTTP trace a CLI command
      • Get recent app logs
      • Get streaming logs
      • View a list of app events
      • Scale your app with the CLI
      • View your app's environment variables
      • SSH into a running app container
      • Kill a specific instance of an application
      • Add an additional route to the application
      • Run a task against the application
      • Advanced: Pushing an application using CF API directly
    • feedback
      • Give feedback to another team
    • routing deep dive
      • Routing Control Plane Overview
      • Subscribe to Route Emitter NATS Messages
      • Look at the GoRouter Routes Table
      • Interested in learning more about routing?
    • services redis cups
      • Create a RedisLabs user-provided service
      • Deploy an application for use with a RedisLabs user-provided service
    • networking monitoring
      • View Application Security Groups
      • Allowing network traffic to other apps (AKA Configure container networking policies)
      • Inspect your container to container networking packets with tcpdump
      • Allowing network traffic to other, non-app, private IPs (AKA Making custom ASGs)
    • bosh troubleshooting
      • SSH into a running BOSH job
      • Scale the number of Diego Cells
      • Trigger a failing BOSH job
      • Watch the BOSH Resurrector resurrect Bosh jobs
      • Update your BOSH deployment's properties (a.k.a. let's break some stuff)
    • concourse
      • Set up a local Concourse using Docker Compose
      • Download and hook up your Concourse CLI
      • Learn you some Concourse
    • opsman
      • What is Ops Manager?
      • Differences between PCF and cf-deployment
      • You decide: Claim a deployed Ops Manager or deploy one yourself
      • Deploy Ops Manager Manually
      • Basic BOSH Knowledge
      • Deploy BOSH Director using Ops Manager
      • Deploy some tiles
    • kubernetes
      • What is Kubernetes?
    • projects
      • Create a Redis BOSH Release
      • Create a Concourse resource
      • Make a BOSH release
      • Make a BOSH Errand
      • Create a tile to deploy with Ops Manager
      • Container networking
      • Deploy CFCR
      • Deploy PKS
      • Diego cell tuning
      • Watch some Videos
      • Create a Concourse job to create new releases of the Onboarding stories
      • Dig into terraform
    • clean up
      • Tear down your CF and Concourse deployments
      • Destroy the BOSH director
      • Destroy any leftovers

    SSH into a running BOSH job

    What?

    To SSH into a BOSH job, you’ll use the bosh cli.

    How?

    bosh-bootloader sets up a jumpbox that allows bosh commands to be run from your workstation

    • eval "$(bbl print-env)" to target the director
    • Now you will only need the VM name to use bosh ssh.

    Expected Result

    Running bosh -d cf ssh VM/GUID opens a shell in your targeted machine.

    Resources

    Forum question: What’s the distinction between an HTTP proxy, tunnel, and gateway?

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