VirtualBox
BOSH Lite v2 is a Director VM running in VirtualBox (typically locally). It is managed via CLI v2. Internally CPI uses containers to emulate VMs which makes it an excellent choice for:
- General BOSH exploration without investing time and resources to configure an IaaS
- Development of releases (including BOSH itself)
- Testing releases locally or in CI
Install¶
Follow below steps to get it running on locally on VirtualBox:
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Check that your machine has at least 8GB RAM, and 100GB free disk space. Smaller configurations may work.
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Install CLI v2
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Install VirtualBox
Known working version:
VBoxManage --version # 5.1...
Note: If you encounter problems with VirtualBox networking try installing Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack as suggested by Issue 202. Alternatively make sure you are on VirtualBox 5.1+ since previous versions had a network connectivity bug.
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Install Director VM
git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-deployment ~/workspace/bosh-deployment mkdir -p ~/deployments/vbox cd ~/deployments/vbox
Below command will try automatically create/enable [Host-only network][vbox_host_only]
192.168.56.0/24
and [NAT network][vbox_nat_net] calledNatNetwork
with DHCP enabled.[vbox_host_only]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-virtualbox-cpi-release/blob/master/docs/networks-host-only.md [vbox_nat_net]: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-virtualbox-cpi-release/blob/master/docs/networks-nat-network.md
bosh create-env ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/bosh.yml \ --state ./state.json \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/virtualbox/cpi.yml \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/virtualbox/outbound-network.yml \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/bosh-lite.yml \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/bosh-lite-runc.yml \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/uaa.yml \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/credhub.yml \ -o ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/jumpbox-user.yml \ --vars-store ./creds.yml \ -v director_name=bosh-lite \ -v internal_ip=192.168.56.6 \ -v internal_gw=192.168.56.1 \ -v internal_cidr=192.168.56.0/24 \ -v outbound_network_name=NatNetwork
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Alias and log into the Director
export BOSH_CLIENT=admin export BOSH_CLIENT_SECRET=`bosh int ./creds.yml --path /admin_password` bosh alias-env vbox -e 192.168.56.6 --ca-cert <(bosh int ./creds.yml --path /director_ssl/ca)
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Confirm that it works
bosh -e vbox env # Using environment '192.168.56.6' as '?' # # Name: ... # User: admin # Succeeded
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Optionally, set up a local route for
bosh ssh
commands or accessing VMs directlysudo route add -net 10.244.0.0/16 192.168.56.6 # Mac OS X sudo ip route add 10.244.0.0/16 via 192.168.56.6 # Linux (using iproute2 suite) sudo route add -net 10.244.0.0/16 gw 192.168.56.6 # Linux (using DEPRECATED route command) route add 10.244.0.0/16 192.168.56.6 # Windows
Deploy example Zookeeper deployment¶
Run through quick steps below or follow deploy workflow that goes through the same steps but with more explanation.
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Update cloud config
bosh -e vbox update-cloud-config ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/warden/cloud-config.yml
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Upload stemcell
bosh -e vbox upload-stemcell \ https://bosh.io/d/stemcells/bosh-warden-boshlite-ubuntu-xenial-go_agent?v=315.45 \ --sha1 674cd3c1e64d8c51e62770697a63c07ca04e9bbd
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Deploy example deployment
bosh -e vbox -d zookeeper deploy <(wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cppforlife/zookeeper-release/master/manifests/zookeeper.yml)
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Run Zookeeper smoke tests
bosh -e vbox -d zookeeper run-errand smoke-tests
Tips¶
- In case you need to SSH into the Director VM, see Jumpbox.
- In case VirtualBox VM shuts down or reboots, you will have to re-run
create-env
command from above with--recreate
flag. The containers will be lost after a VM restart, but you can restore your deployment withbosh cck
command. Alternatively Pause the VM from the VirtualBox UI before shutting down VirtualBox host, or making your computer sleep.