Presentation
Experiment and Extension Projects
James Hunt is the Chief Architect and Technical Evangelist at Stark & Wayne, a leading Cloud Foundry consultancy. He has authored dozens of Open Source projects, including:
- SHIELD - https://github.com/starkandwayne/shield
- Safe - https://github.com/starkandwayne/safe
- Spruce - https://github.com/geofffranks/spruce
No prior conference speaking experience, but he has presented to medium-sized groups inside of Stark & Wayne, at local meetups in Buffalo, NY, and lead several one-on-one and group training sessions, both in-person and remotely.
Services are the backbone of any successful Cloud Foundry environment. Blacksmith is a Cloud Foundry service broker that leverages BOSH itself to deploy new service instances on dedicated VMs, on-demand. We'll go over the what, the why and the how of Blacksmith and run through a live demonstration.
Cloud Foundry Operators who are looking for a way of expanding the applicability of their BOSH skillset to encompass the deployment of dedicated, standalone services for their users to provision via the CF marketplace.
We firmly believe that BOSH is the most advanced and rock-solid deployment platform the world has yet seen. We also believe that Blacksmith makes it easier to move service deployments from other substrates like Chef, Puppet, Kubernetes, etc., into BOSH.
Intermediate - Advanced
The ability to ssh to a host and port on the public Internet.