This project demosntstrates the following:
- How to use BOSH CLI v2 in order to setup bosh-lite VM based on bosh-deployment manifest files.
- How to create, upload and deploy the nWeb release. This release has very simple structure and you can easily reverse engineer the connections between its components.
- Linux OS - all scripts are designed to run on Linux. The scripts have been tested on Linux Mint but they should work fine on pretty much all major Linux distributions.
- Sudo - in order to create routing rule between your network and the nWeb release network via the BOSH director.
- VirtualBox - you need at least version 5.0.
- BOSH CLI v2 - the CLI should be accessible via
bosh. - Git - for obvious reasons.
Long story short - run the all.sh script, sit down and observe the output. Also, take a look at the script and read the comments. They are quite descriptive. You won't learn anything if you just run the script - you actually need to go through the script, examine the commands and experiment.
At some point you may want to save your work. The bosh-lite VM runs in headless mode and by default you don't get UI. You can manually run virtualbox and then choose Machine => Close => Save State. Then you can run the VM by choosing Machine => Start => Headless Start.
Perhaps you'd like to take a look at Maria Shaldibina's BOSH guide. Her tutorial is focused around learn-bosh-release.