Updated article to latest Minikube, Feb 2019 Minikube is a tool that runs a Kubernetes stack inside a single VM being run by a local virtualization engine such as VirtualBox. This makes it ideal for local development and experimentation. In this article we’ll be going through installation and validation of a Minikube installation on Ubuntu … Kubernetes: running Minikube locally on Ubuntu using VirtualBox
Update Jan 2019: Now using CredHub instead of ‘–vars-store’ (which will be deprecated in CF 3) Even if you are developing a service or application that will ultimately be deployed to a private Cloud Foundry instance, having a local CF instance for development work is still an ideal development workflow. There is a local CF … CloudFoundry: Deploy Cloud Foundry locally using BOSH Lite on Ubuntu
BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. In this article I will describe how to install BOSH unto VirtualBox. This implementation is often called “BOSH Lite” because it internally uses containers to emulate VMs.
Many developers like to use Vagrant from HashiCorp to standardize the workflow of virtual machines: creation, running, destroying, taking snapshots, etc.. Usually Vagrant is used for Linux hosts, but it also works with Windows as long as you prepare the template properly. In a previous article I went over the detailed steps to create a template image for … Windows: Windows 2012 Sysprep for Vagrant readiness
In the world of Linux containers where deployment takes on the order of seconds, even the best-case scenario for spinning up a new Windows host can seem like an eternity. Clearly, you don’t want to wait for the entire Windows install process each time you bring up a Windows guest OS. Even automated, this would … Ubuntu: Standing up a Windows 2012 instance on Ubuntu using Sysprep
Although container based engines such as Docker are highly popularized for newer application deployment – there will still be widespread use of OS virtualization engines for years to come. One of the most popular virtualization engines for development purposes is the open-source VirtualBox from Oracle. This article will detail its installation on Ubuntu 14.04.
Oracle VirtualBox as a virtualization engine paired with Vagrant provides a cross-platform virtualization-agnostic workflow for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It is light enough to allow a developer to setup, test, and tear down virtual infrastructure as part of a unit test. You may find yourself in a position where you have built a VM in … VMware: Exporting from Oracle VirtualBox/Vagrant to vCloud Director