Does anyone knows if the "micro" version of CloudFoundry will be still available?
The https://micro.cloudfoundry.com site does not respond but I've got a link to it in my pivotal account so naturally I assume something must have gone wrong.
Micro Cloud Foundry has not been upgraded for Cloud Foundry v2. The following links gives the two alternative options:
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/running/deploying-cf/run-local.html
I can recommend cf-vagrant-installer which enables you to run CF on virtualbox, using vagrant. This is a more flexible approach compared to the older micro CF, which required VMWare.
Update: the vagrant option is now called "Bosh-lite" and is available under: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite
Supported Virtualizations are:
* VMWAre Fusion
* VirtualBox
* AWS
MicroPCF will be replaced by pcfdev (currently version 0.15) but it's still in beta. All you have to do is a vagrant up. It will have MySQL, Redis and Rabbit as Service out of the box.
"Micro Cloud Foundry is not yet available for the Cloud Foundry Hosted Developer Edition (v2). If you are a Cloud Foundry v1 customer, please use Offline Mode." - from the Google cached result for micro.cloudfoundry.com
This blog post has instructions for working in offline mode: http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/2011/09/08/working-offline-with-micro-cloud-foundry/
The "Micro" version of Cloud Foundry is not available for Cloud Foundry V2 users onward.
Check those options to run Cloud Foundry V2 locally:
http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/deploying/run-local.html
This currently includes bosh-lite and cf_nise_installer.
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I am running cloud foundry on a Kubernetes cluster on the Digital Ocean platform. I am able to deploy apps successfully via cf push APP_NAME without a database. Now I would like to run my Django app with a PostgreSQL database. When I run from terminal cf marketplace it does now show me the list of offerings/services available in the marketplace.
cf marketplace
Output
Getting services from marketplace in org abc-cforg / space abc-cfspace as admin...
OK
No service offerings found
Output from cf version
cf version 6.53.0+8e2b70a4a.2020-10-01
I have tried with cf version 7 as well but no luck.
I am quoting from this doc -
No problem. The Cloud Foundry marketplace is a collection of services that can be
provisioned on demand. Your marketplace may differ depending on the Cloud Foundry
distribution you are using.
What should I be doing now to get the list of service offerings in the marketplace? I googled quite some time but could not find a fix.
I have an account in pivotal as well but this is deprecated already as per this link.
By default, there will not be any services in the marketplace. As a platform operator, you'll need to add the services that you want to expose to your CloudFoundry users.
If you look at a public CloudFoundry offering, you can see that this is done for you, and when you run cf m you'll get the list of services that the public provider and their operations team set up for you.
When you run your own CF, that's on you to set up.
There are a couple of things you can do:
The easy option is to use user-provided services. These are not set up through the marketplace, so you simply ignore that command altogether.
You would instead go procure your service from somewhere else. You mentioned using Digital Ocean, so you could procure one of their managed databases. Once you have your database credentials, you would run cf cups -p username,password,host my-service (these are free-form fields names, enter whatever makes sense for your service) and, when prompted, enter the info. This creates a user-provided service, which can be bound to your apps and works just like a service you'd acquire through the marketplace.
The more involved option requires deploying more infrastructure to run a service broker. The service broker talks to Cloud Controller and provides a catalog of available services. Those services are what Cloud Controller displays when you run cf m.
There are some community-provided brokers and commercial ones as well. I think a lot of these brokers also assume a Bosh deployment and not Kubernetes, so be careful to read the instructions and see if that's a requirement.
A quick scan through and here are a few that seem like they should work:
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/cf-containers-broker
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/s3-broker
https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/rds-broker
Earlier I could able to use Pivotal cloud foundry free subscription to do my poc but now not able to do so and name of cloudfoundry changed to Tanzu.
I would like to understand the timeline history of Cloudfoundry as it keeps changing.
Kindly help.
A brief summary:
Pivotal Web Services came out in roughly 2013. It was a public-facing PaaS operated by Pivotal. It ran on AWS & used the opensource Cloud Foundry bits. It had a selection of services available that were powered by App Direct.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry came out shortly after PWS & was an on-premises version of Cloud Foundry. This was based on the opensource Cloud Foundry but had many things added on top, like a friendly UI over Bosh (Ops Manager), an autoscaler, a scheduler, Apps Manager (similar to the Console on PWS), and many services which you could also install and manage yourself. Over time it came to support multiple IaaS solutions, like vSphere, AWS, GCP & Azure.
When Pivotal was acquired by VMware at the beginning of 2020, the branding switched so that formerly labeled Pivotal products are now under the Tanzu name. VMware continues to develop this software under the Tanzu brand.
At the beginning of 20201, PWS was sunset. It's no longer available, but there are other public CF offerings available, some of which offer free trials as well. You can see them on the CF Foundation's website: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/certified-platforms/.
The Cloud Foundry Foundation continues to publish OSS versions of Cloud Foundry. There is the class version that can be deployed using Bosh on an IaaS (cf-deployment), as well as two newer methods for deploying on Kubernetes (KubeCF & cf-for-k8s).
Regarding the concern on Free Subscription: PWS took its final bow and left the stage back in Jan'21. You are no longer allowed to create org or use PWS anymore. For reference see this article:
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/pivotal-web-services-blog/pivotal-web-services-end-of-availability-announcement-and-timeline
Cloud Foundry was originally developed by VMware in 2009 and went
public in 2011. Somewhere in 2013-14 Pivotal was formed who led the CF
into open source era. By end of 2019; VMWare completed the acquisition
of Pivotal and named VMware Tanzu..
Below links might be helpful:
https://www.jrebel.com/blog/pivotal-cloud-foundry
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14883/385309/from-pivotal-to-vmware-tanzu-what-you-need-to-know
A little more history in general can be found here:
https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/history-cloud-foundry-1/
https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/history-cloud-foundry-2/
I have searched for an answer to this question and this question is duplicate but I need clarification as I looked at two different places and answers are a bit opposite.
The following Stack Overflow answer mentions that Google Cloud AI Platform Notebooks is an upgraded version of Google Cloud Datalab. On the following Quora page, one of the architects mentions that Cloud Datalab is built on top of Jypyter Notebook.
Cloud Datalab is adding a new network of its own. AI Notebooks remains within an existing network. With the current setup of my environment, I do not want to add overhead of maintaining extra network and security to watch over, and so AI Notebooks is the immediate solution. But I would also want to understand the benefits that Cloud Datalab provides.
Between AI Notebook and Cloud Datalab, which should be used and in which
scenario?
Is Cloud Datalab also providing pre-installed packages of Python,
Tensorflow or R environment like AI Notebooks?
Between AI Notebook and Cloud Datalab, which should be used and in
which scenario?
You should use AI notebooks on new projects in any case since Cloud Datalab would be deprecated sooner than later.
Is Cloud Datalab also providing pre-installed packages of Python,
Tensorflow or R environment like AI Notebooks?
Yes it does.
Summary of the differences between the two products.
DataLab
Custom UI that is not compatible with latest JupyterLab extensions.
Using old PyDatalab SDK since when DataLab was released there were no official SDK available for many of GCP services.
No major changes on RoadMap.
Requires SSH with port mapping to use
Notebooks:
Using JupyterLab UI.
Using official SDKs (like BigQuery Python SDK), therefore better integration.
Since UI (JupyterLab) is community driven releasing new changes rapidly.
Access to UI is simple, no SSH, no CLI usage is required.
Notebooks API
Terraform support
Client libraries (Python, Java, NodeJS) to manage Notebooks
We want deploy a commercial software, that the provider send us in ESXi format (virtual appliance), in Google Cloud.
For not miss the warranty, we can´t modify this VM.
Please, could someone help me?, i am new in GCP.
Thanks in advance.
Juanma.
First thing you want to know when deploying ESXi to cloud environments is if your cloud provider supports Nested Virtualization. If you're deploying ESXi to a virtual machine that's a must have.
As of today, Google and AWS don't support nested virtualization.
Your options are: Go to Azure, they have some specific servers that can support nested virtualization (DS3 and E3 Layers) or go to Bare Metal (Softlayer).
I read on wikipedia that cloud foundry open source software is available to anyone whereas the Pivotal Web Services is a commercial product from Pivotal.
I kinda searched a lot on internet but did not find any cloud foundry open source software implementation example. Everything is for Pivotal product which provides a 2 months free trial service.
So can anyone tell me what is the cloud foundry open source software?
And what exactly is the difference between cloud foundry OSS & Pivotal CF?
Cloud Foundry is open source software, but if you are looking to tinker with it for the first time, using the OSS is a bit involved. You will need to have a provisioned cloud environment, you will install it yourself using MicroBosh, and everything will be done through the command line.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a commercial implementation that makes it easier to get up and running as you are learning the project. It provides a hosted environment in Pivotal Web Services so that you don't have to install it yourself, a web interface that makes managing the environment easier, and a number of pre-provisioned services including relational databases and messaging queues. This is the best starting point if you are just learning the technology.
To add to the above answer, Pivotal Cloud Foundry offers a public cloud offering called Pivotal Web Services where you can signup and deploy your apps on the cloud which is hosted by Pivotal.
On the other hand they also allow enterprises to host private cloud environment by installing components of the cloud infrastructure on VMWare VSphere, AWS, OpenStack Check this(http://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/installing/pcf-docs.html) link out.