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 …

A very good question - my goal was to get some sort of .Net core application up and running in Cloud Foundry. As part of my development plans I want to increase my skills in programming in languages like .Net and Java. While I have started to learn .Net using a number of tutorials (I’m lucky …

When I am working on multiple projects for multiple organisations I find myself altering environment variables on the machines I am working on to help me do my job. This up until recently has been a manual process and I often tell people how I’m lazy so look for ways to be more efficient. I …

Who doesn’t love ASCII art and a CLI? One of the early *nix commands that I discovered (well the one that clearly sticks in my mind) was a tool called cowsay, which has its origins back in the late 90’s. cowsay is not a particularly useful tool however when embarking on learning how to create …

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 dials …

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 Cloud …

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 …

After lots of thought and consideration I decided to leave Cisco at the end of last year. It wasn’t easy, especially because of some of the people I had been working with! However for my own career development and enjoyment I have decided to join Pivotal. This is a very exciting move for me …

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 cloud are; …