What?

Cf-deployment is the supported way to deploy CF in the OSS world. It consists primarily of a deployment manifest, as well as operations files, or ops-files, that transform the manifest to create a slightly different deployment.

The standard cf-deployment is fairly hefty, so we’re going to scale ours down to a more reasonable size using an operations file that reduces the number of VMs we deploy. Using an operations file to make small adjustments like this means we can edit our deployment without changing the core cf-deployment.yml manifest.

For TPCF, customers would upload the TAS tile to Operations Manager to install CF

How?

Clone the cf-deployment repo to your workstation (we assume you put it in ~/workspace, next to your onboarding directory).

bosh -d cf deploy ../cf-deployment/cf-deployment.yml -v system_domain=<YOUR_DOMAIN> --non-interactive -o ../cf-deployment/operations/use-compiled-releases.yml -o ../cf-deployment/operations/scale-to-one-az.yml

This one step is part of a step-by-step procedure listed in these instructions, but this backlog has already set you up with everything you need.

Let’s discuss the options we used:

  • We added --non-interactive flag. Normally, after initial preprocessing steps, BOSH will present the “manifest changes”, differences between the currently-deployed manifest (currently nothing) and the deploying manifest. Without this flag, you’ll be prompted ~5 minutes after the bosh deploy command to approve the manifest changes.
  • We added -o operations/use-compiled-releases.yml, to skip compiling all of your releases.
  • We added -o operations/scale-to-one-az.yml to the deploy command. This ops-file will cut your deployment size in half, so you’ll deploy faster (and your deployment will cost less money).

Expected Result

Wait for the BOSH deploy to complete. It will take a while…like 20 minutes or so…you might want to check out the next “intermission” story, or go grab a snack. Once the deploy is finished, run bosh vms. All of them (currently 15) should have a status of “running”.

Resources

Docs: What is a BOSH release? cf-deployment Github README