New installers for cf, uaac and bosh that don't require Ruby

[Dr Nic Williams]

The requirement of Ruby was one of the reasons for rewriting the cf CLI into golang. The uaac and bosh CLIs are still written in ruby; but fortunately there are now installers that remove the need to pre-install a correctly working latest version of Ruby.

These installers are primarily for CF administrators/deployers. Normal users only need the cf release from https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/releases

For BOSH, there is traveling-bosh http://bosh-cli.cfapps.io/ (home at https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/traveling-bosh)

This will install the bosh CLI, and various useful plugins such as `bosh bootstrap deploy`. See README above.

For CF admins, there is now traveling-cf-admin https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/traveling-cf-admin

This will install the cf and uaac CLIs, and include a pre-compiled version of Ruby plus required native gems.

http://phusion.github.io/traveling-ruby/ made both of these installers possible.

Nic

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[long.ngu...@gmail.com]

Awesome!

[Dr Nic Williams]

As an example use case, terraform-aws-cf-install now installs bosh, cf, and uaac on the bastion VM:

https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/terraform-aws-cf-install/blob/master/provision.sh#L32-L39

[cian...@gmail.com]

That's great! Any plans to make a Windows installer for traveling-cf-admin?

[Dr Nic Williams]

Is there a windows equivalent to "curl | bash"? Or how can you imagine the download/install system?

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 3:40 AM, cian...@gmail.com <cian...@gmail.com> wrote:

That's great! Any plans to make a Windows installer for traveling-cf-admin?

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[Wayne E. Seguin]

First you have to get the file to the box, there are two decent options for it in PowerShell these days (yes, there are more archaic ones).

Option one is to use Invoke-WebRequest [0]:

    Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/cloudfoundry/...project.ps -OutFile c:\temp\project.ps

Option two is to create a webclient [1] option (if the above is too slow):

    $wc = New-Object net.webclient

    $wc.Downloadfile("https://github.com/cloudfoundry/..../project.ps", "c:\temp\project.ps")

Once you have the file downloaded you can run it. 

    c:\temp\project.ps

That said, you may need to allow the execution policy fo the scripts to be run:

    Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

    

After chooseing 'run as administrator' when launching powershell.

You can see the documentation [2] for running scripts for more information on this.

References:

[0] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849901.aspx

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.webclient(v=vs.110).aspx

[2] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613481.aspx

[Dr Nic Williams]

Thanks Wayne!

I just remembered that BOSH CLI may not work on Windows for all commands perhaps; but could be fixed over time I'm sure.

[cian...@gmail.com]

Thanks guys, sorry I should have clarified - I was mainly looking for a quick way to get the uaac command line tool.

If anyone else is interested in that, the procedure below will get the uaac tool in about 10 minutes (with >= 1 MB/s internet connection) :

1. Install Ruby and Ruby-Dev_kit

Install ruby from : http://rubyinstaller.org/

Download the ruby dev kit from : http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads

Extract it into a separate directory, and follow instructions here : https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit

The following steps for ruby dev kit installation seemed to be sufficient :

cd <install_dir>

ruby dk.rb init

ruby dk.rb install

2. Install cf-uaac.gem

Download cf-uaac.gem from : https://rubygems.org/gems/cf-uaac

To install :

gem install cf-uaac.gem

3. Test - should get a list of all options :

uaac help