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Deploying a BOSH to AWS, via Genesis

Do you have an Amazon AWS account? Do you with things were more automated and just easier to manage? Want to do that using BOSH, but wish there was a simple way to deploy BOSH? Me too. So, let's do that.

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Starting the Genesis Roadmap Calls

Let's build a community together! The Genesis Team has just started holding monthly Roadmap Calls to keep interested parties updated and involved in the goings-on of Genesis and officially supported Kits. Come talk to us!

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Managing Secrets in Genesis: A Guide to Vault

Vault is an open-source secrets management software. Let's set up one for our deployment secrets, shall we?

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Deploying a BOSH to Google Cloud Platform Using Genesis and Terraform

Do you have a Google Cloud Platform account? Do you wish things were more automated and just easier to manage? Want to do that using BOSH, but wish there was a simple way to deploy BOSH? Me too. So, let's do that.

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Deploying a BOSH to Microsoft Azure Using Genesis and Terraform

BOSH is an effective way to manage your infrastructure and Azure is a great infrastructure to manage, but before you have a BOSH director, you need to bootstrap Azure to a point where you can deploy a BOSH Director to it.

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Deploying BOSH in vSphere using Genesis

Let's walk through spinning up a BOSH director on vSphere using Genesis.

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Building a Genesis Lab in AWS (Part I)

Everybody needs a place to play, to experiment, and to try wacky things with new technology. It's the same when you're just getting started with Genesis — you need a lab environment!

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Debugging BOSH IaaS Issues

A well-tuned BOSH director is a thing of beauty. When all the pieces and parts are humming and clicking properly, everything just works and you start to forget that provisioning operating systems and software stacks, especially in the cloud provider of your choice, was ever difficult in the first place.

But sometimes you are going to have to debug all that magic, and it's good to know where to start.

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