Cloud Foundry on VirtualBox

There are a lot of ways to build and try Cloud Foundry, but the easiest (and most cost-effective) I found so far is to use the Nise Installer.

The installation process:

1. Install VirtualBox 
2. Download Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS 64 bit
3. Create a VM with at least 10GB disk and 4GB memory
4. Leave the first network adapter NAT-ed (for internet access)
5. Make a second adapter that is Host-only (for host OS access)
6. Install Ubuntu Server
7. Install curl
8. Launch the bootstrap.sh script (as documented on the Nise Installer page)
9. Restart the VM to get the new kernel in place 

If you are lazy go get the already created VM image from my Google Drive. 


To start the Cloud Foundry instance:

1. Go to cf_nise_installer directory
2. Launch CF with ./scripts/start.sh 

You may need to relaunch the script or stop/start again in case some of the components failed.


To access the Cloud Foundry instance:

1. Get the IP of the VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter with ipconfig /all or ifconfig -a
2. Add a route from 10.0.2.15 to the IP of the VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter. 
   
   For example in Windows that would be:  
route add 10.0.2.15 192.168.56.101  
   
   , where 192.168.56.101 is the IP of the Host-Only adapter.
   
   
3. Install CF CLI on your client machine
4. Login to the CF instance using the login command provided at the end of the start via
   the ./scripts/start.sh script

To create organization and space you can use:

cf create-org me
cf target -o me
cf create-space development
cf target -s development

You are ready to push an app and have fun.