CloudFoundry microbosh unable to deploy on AWS

Question

I've followed the "minimal AWS deployment" guide here https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release/tree/master/example_manifests to try CloudFoundry.

I understand that I have to install the bosh_cli_plugin_micro, but when I run this on an AWS Ubuntu 14.04 VM:

gem install bosh_cli_plugin_micro

I get:

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
    Unable to resolve dependencies: blobstore_client requires aws-sdk-resources (= 2.2.0); aws-sdk requires aws-sdk-v1 (= 1.60.2)

Installing the AWS ruby sdk doesn't solve the problem. I suspect it's a problem of the aws sdk being a newer version than the one the micro bosh cli expects. Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

One way to ensure you get a consistent set of gems would be to create a Gemfile like this:

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'bosh_cli'
gem 'bosh_cli_plugin_micro'

and then run the bundle command from the same working directory as where your Gemfile is placed. To make sure you're always using the right version of the CLI and plugin, prepend commands with bundle exec , eg

$ bundle exec bosh micro deploy /path/to/stemcell

You may even wish to alias bosh to bundle exec bosh .