getting-started-vsphere.md

Getting Started: vSphere

This guide is a walkthrough for deploying a BOSH director with bbl on vSphere. Upon completion, you will have the following:

1. A BOSH director
2. A jumpbox
3. A set of randomly generated BOSH director credentials
4. A generated keypair allowing you to SSH into the BOSH director and any instances BOSH deploys
5. A copy of the manifest the BOSH director was deployed with
6. A basic cloud config

bbl creates and maintains the lifecycle of the jumpbox and BOSH director.

It does not create any networks, security groups, or load balancers on vSphere.

Create a Jumpbox and a BOSH Director

1. Export environment variables.

   export BBL_IAAS=vsphere
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_USER
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_PASSWORD
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_IP
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_DC
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_CLUSTER
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_RP
   export BBL_VSPHERE_NETWORK
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_DS
   export BBL_VSPHERE_SUBNET_CIDR
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_DISKS
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_TEMPLATES
   export BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_VMS
   

   or powershell:

   $env:BBL_IAAS="vsphere"
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_USER=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_PASSWORD=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_IP=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_DC=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_CLUSTER=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_RP=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_NETWORK=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_DS=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_SUBNET_CIDR=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_DISKS=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_TEMPLATES=
   $env:BBL_VSPHERE_VCENTER_VMS=

2. Create jumpbox and bosh director.

   bbl up
   

Next Steps

• Target the BOSH Director