This document provides an overview of BOSH (Bosh Open Source HM) and its key concepts. It describes BOSH as a tool that unifies release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud software. It then explains the main components of BOSH including stemcells, releases, and deployment manifests. Stemcells provide the base OS and agent, releases define jobs and packages, and manifests define the deployment configuration. The document also outlines the different flavors of BOSH and when BOSH would be used, such as for distributed systems or lifecycle management across environments.

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What is BOSH?
An over-overview
Juan Pablo Genovese
Cloud Engineer

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Yours truly...
Juan Pablo Genovese
(aka J.P.)
Cloud Engineer
A bit about me
● Absolutely passionate about teaching
and dancing Tango
● Plays guitar and sings.
● Have two dogs (a Giant schnauzer
and a Boxer)
● Loves meeting people and talking
about pretty much everything
Keep in touch!
● 19 years in the IT business, in different
industries.
● From S/390 to Cloud environments.
● From COBOL to microservices.
● 3.5 years working with Cloud Foundry.
● Loves working on system architectures,
enabling companies in the Cloud World
and delivering trainings.
@eljuanchosf
juanpgenovese

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Configuration management today
Chef
Puppet
Ansible
Terraform + Packer
BOSH

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BOSH
“... unifies release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management of small
and large-scale cloud software.”
Provision and deploy software
Monitoring
Failure recovery
Software updates with zero-to-minimal downtime

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BOSH
Complies with the four principles of Release Engineering:
Identifiability
Reproducibility
Consistency
Agility
Well suited for large, distributed systems
Support many IaaS providers

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When use BOSH?
When you want to avoid coupling with IaaS.
When you are working with a distributed system.
When you want lifecycle management.
When you want to manage and test deployments
upgrades/rollbacks on different environments.

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Director NATS
Registry
Blobstore
Health
Monitor
Postgres
IaaS
VM(s)
Agent
IaaS API
CPI
BOSH
CLI
BOSH Installation

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The three flavors of BOSH
(full)
BOSH
Director-VM
(former MicroBOSH)
BOSHLite

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A BOSH deployment
Stemcell
+
Release
+
Deployment manifest

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A BOSH stemcell
Base OS
BOSH Agent
Default configuration and tools

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A BOSH release
Jobs (describe pieces of the service or application you are releasing)
Packages (provide source code and dependencies to jobs)
Blobs (provide binary files for packages)
Source (provides non-binary files to packages)
Config (general configuration options for the release)

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A BOSH deployment manifest
Deployment Identification: deployment name and the director UUID
Releases: name and version of each release in a deployment
Networks: network configuration information
Resource Pools: properties of VMs that BOSH creates and manages
Disk Pools: properties of disk pools that BOSH creates and manages
Compilation: properties of compilation VMs
Update: defines how BOSH updates job instances during deployment

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DEMO!