Automating the CloudFoundry Install

April 14, 2011 - Philly

If you haven’t heard, VMWare open sourced a massive platform as a service application called CloudFoundry two days ago. It’s totally awesome, but as the README illustrates, it takes a while to get it installed and setup. Since I don’t like waiting, I transformed that README into a simple bash script that will handle everything for you. It’s available now on my fork. It takes nearly an hour to run, but only requires manual intervention when entering the sudo password (which only happens twice). With this script, getting up and running with CloudFoundry is as simple as downloading Ubuntu 10.04.2 and Virtualbox and running the following commands in your Ubuntu VM:

    sudo apt-get install -y openssh-server curl
    bash < <(curl -s -k -B https://github.com/trotter/vcap/raw/fix-install-process/setup/install)

In the future, I’d like to turn this script into a set of Chef recipes… but that’s for the future. In the meantime, have fun playing with CloudFoundry!