Create a Deployment Manifest for Cloud Foundry on BOSH-Lite

Page last updated: December 22, 2015

This topic describes the process for creating a manifest to deploy Cloud Foundry using BOSH-Lite. It assumes you have already setup BOSH-Lite and targeted the Director.

Create a Deployment Manifest Stub (Optional for Virtualbox)

If you deploy BOSH Lite to an AWS Vagrant VM, you must specify a system domain in a manifest stub. If you are deploying to a local Vagrant VM this step is not necessary.

By default, BOSH Lite uses the system domain bosh-lite.com, which resolves to the address 10.244.0.34. Update the system domain property to one of the following two values:

The domain that you configured to point to the public IP address of the BOSH-Lite box that you previously created.
The xip.io domain the corresponds to the public IP address given to your BOSH-Lite vagrant box: YOUR_PUBLIC_IP.xip.io. For more information about xip.io, see xip.io.

    ---
    properties:
      domain: bosh-lite.com # Replace with your system domain

Clone the cf-release GitHub Repository

$ git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release.git

Generate the Manifest

Install spiff.
Use the scripts/generate-bosh-lite-dev-manifest command to create a deployment manifest and set it as the current BOSH deployment.
```
$ cd cf-release
$ ./scripts/generate-bosh-lite-dev-manifest
```
(Optional) If you have deployed your BOSH-Lite to AWS, or have otherwise created any stubs with custom configuration, you should pass them as additional arguments:
```
$ ./scripts/generate-bosh-lite-dev-manifest PATH-TO-STUB ...
```