Automation is the key to operate a large scale cloud platform, no matter it is an IaaS, a PaaS or a SaaS. This web site think in Cloud Foundry recently published a series of blog posts on how to manage the life cycle of Cloud Foundry using the tool chain BOSH.


To operate a platform, administrator needs to have a tool to deploy, update, or scale the cloud platform. BOSH is an open source tool which allows operators to accomplish the above tasks.


The BOSH series blogs are very help for people who want to implement Cloud Foundry from scratch, i.e. from Hardware, hypervisor all the way up to IaaS and PaaS(Cloud Foundry). Highly recommended.

• Building Cloud Foundry on vSphere using BOSH Part 3
• Building Cloud Foundry on vSphere using BOSH Part 2
• Building Cloud Foundry on vSphere using BOSH Part I
• Cloud Foundry BOSH Introduction