A little background
Cloud Foundry project is an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) project initiated by VMware. CloudFoundry.com is a VMware hosted, managed and supported PaaS environment. Micro Cloud Foundry is a complete version of Cloud Foundry that runs in a virtual machine on a developer’s Mac or PC.
Try Cloud Foundry
There are 2 ways: install it from github or use Micro Cloud Foundry virtual machine image provided by cloudfoudry.com. The second method is relatively simple and requires an CloudFoundry.com account. Because I already have an account, I used the second method.
The testing was not very smooth by following Micro Cloud Foundry Quick Start guide. The major problem was the network issue: the VM image uses the bridged network, however, in my env, it bound to the wrong network physical adapter (you should be careful about this especially when you have multiple network adapters or you have Virtualbox installed). The cloud foundry setup didn't pointed out this problem. This caused me to use vcap.me as the domain.
To fix above issue, I need use the virtual network editor to change the binding from automatic to a dedicated network adapter. The VMware player doesn't install the virtual network editor by default, I had to follow this guide to manually extract the installation file (VMware-player-xxxx.exe /e folder-name) , find the network.cab and extract the vmnetcfg.exe and copy it to VMWare Player folder. (C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player).
Another issue is VCAP ROUTER: 404: after setting up the micro cloud, vmc command failed with below message: Error (JSON 404): VCAP ROUTER: 404 - DESTINATION NOT FOUND I tried reconfiguring the domain in micro cloud setup menu, the problem was gone.
Thoughts
As for cloud computing, provisioning VM instances or application instances is relatively easy, the resource management is a challenge.
Cloud Foundry project is an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) project initiated by VMware. CloudFoundry.com is a VMware hosted, managed and supported PaaS environment. Micro Cloud Foundry is a complete version of Cloud Foundry that runs in a virtual machine on a developer’s Mac or PC.
Try Cloud Foundry
There are 2 ways: install it from github or use Micro Cloud Foundry virtual machine image provided by cloudfoudry.com. The second method is relatively simple and requires an CloudFoundry.com account. Because I already have an account, I used the second method.
The testing was not very smooth by following Micro Cloud Foundry Quick Start guide. The major problem was the network issue: the VM image uses the bridged network, however, in my env, it bound to the wrong network physical adapter (you should be careful about this especially when you have multiple network adapters or you have Virtualbox installed). The cloud foundry setup didn't pointed out this problem. This caused me to use vcap.me as the domain.
To fix above issue, I need use the virtual network editor to change the binding from automatic to a dedicated network adapter. The VMware player doesn't install the virtual network editor by default, I had to follow this guide to manually extract the installation file (VMware-player-xxxx.exe /e folder-name) , find the network.cab and extract the vmnetcfg.exe and copy it to VMWare Player folder. (C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Player).
Another issue is VCAP ROUTER: 404: after setting up the micro cloud, vmc command failed with below message: Error (JSON 404): VCAP ROUTER: 404 - DESTINATION NOT FOUND I tried reconfiguring the domain in micro cloud setup menu, the problem was gone.
Thoughts
As for cloud computing, provisioning VM instances or application instances is relatively easy, the resource management is a challenge.
