Deploy Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Pivotal Operations Manager

Cloud foundry is an open source PAAS project that gives a user the ability to deploy platforms across multiple “cloud” platforms like Openstack, VMware, vCHS, and AWA. Pivotal CF is the enterprise version of this that has 2 main componets to enable PAAS:

Pivotal CF Elastic Runtime Service – A complete, scalable runtime environment, extensible to most modern frameworks or languages running on Linux. Deployed applications enjoy built-in services and can automatically bind to new data services through a service broker or to an existing user-provided service.

Pivotal CF Operations Manager – The industry’s first turnkey enterprise PaaS management platform with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) integration.

Once you have setup the basic CF config of Operations manager and Elastic Runtime you can then deploy applications on top of the platform. These application include MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop and many many more

This post will show you how to deploy Pivotal CF Operations manager in a VMware enviornment. In future posts I will show you how to deploy Elastic Runtime and use it to deploy the Pivotla Hadoop application suite on top of it.

First download the Pivotal CF bits from http://www.gopivotal.com/platform-as-a-service/pivotal-cf

Extract them to a directory and import the ova to VMware

The deploy template wizard will pop up. Click Next

Review the details. Click Next

Accept the ELA. Click Next

Give the VM a name an inventory location. Click Next

Choose a storage location for the VM. Click Next

Choose a disk format. Click Next

Choose a network to Deploy the VM on. Click Next

Now setup the properties of the VM.

Note that all the fields need to be filled out. If you leave any of this information blank the VM will deploy with its network set to DHCP client not with a static IP.

Click Next