Tech

Installing Cloud Foundry for Kubernetes

After taking the TAS for Kubernetes route lately I wanted to try out the underlying project in v0.4.0, as this incorporates the Paketo Buildpacks. Preparation steps are the same as for the TAS installation, but the project includes some great documentation for installing it on a local cluster, may it be a kind or minikube one. Assuming you have your kind cluster installed, kapp, kbld, ytt and bosh installed, changes start to kick in when preparing for the configuration.

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Deployment with Hugo (and Github Actions)

One of the main tasks to relaunch this blog was to migrate over to Hugo. While the initial setup had been done on Github Pages and this is an excellent choice for zero-cost hosting, I wanted to personalize and own my content rather to host it on some other platform which is not made for this exact purpose. Additionally I didn’t want to upgrade my account just for this reason (Github doesn’t allow private repositories to publish sites unless on a Pro Plan).

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Installing Tanzu Application Service (formerly Pivotal Cloud Foundry) on Kubernetes

It’s now a couple of years since I tried to install Cloud Foundry for the first time when joining Pivotal. During that time we made the shift from using DEA (Droplet Execution Agent) to Diego (Differences) and now with the shift towards embracing Kubernetes as the container scheduler it was time to give it a go on my laptop. Pivotal Cloud Foundry has been renamed to match the Tanzu brand and while this is more of a branding effort, the real changes are now in beta and ready to try out.

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Blog Update

It’s the beginning of restarting a blog. This website and blog has served me for various endeavours throughout the years and I wondered if it was time to restart a blog in those times. Blog you say? Yes, old-school technology that somehow made it along and is powering various opinion websites. RSS and a reader If you’re using a Mac, I highly recommend to install NetNewsWire which is the best RSS reader by far.

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