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BOSH
On the record
- Automation
- BOSH supports automated software release creation and updating complex deployed systems with simple commands.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The BOSH CLI is a command-line tool for deployment operations and software release management.bosh.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- CLI availability
- The BOSH CLI is available as a binary for the user’s operating system and through Homebrew on macOS or Linux; the documentation says it is not published through apt or yum repositories.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Cloud providers
- BOSH supports VMware vSphere, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and Alibaba Cloud.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Community support
- The BOSH community directs users to Cloud Foundry Slack and a mailing list for questions and discussion.bosh.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Its Cloud Provider Interface lets users extend BOSH to support additional IaaS providers, including Apache CloudStack and VirtualBox.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- BOSH is particularly well-suited for large distributed systems and can deploy software beyond Cloud Foundry, including Hadoop.bosh.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Open source
- BOSH describes itself as part of the open-source community and points users to its code in the cloudfoundry GitHub organizations.bosh.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Open source and support
- BOSH is open source, with community help available through Cloud Foundry Slack and the cf-bosh mailing list.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- BOSH unifies release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management for small and large scale cloud software.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Release engineering
- BOSH lets developers and teams version, package, and deploy software reproducibly, and automates software releases and updates to complex deployed systems.bosh.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Reproducible releases
- BOSH lets developers and teams version, package, and deploy software reproducibly, and its release workflow tracks software components and operating system dependencies.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Scale and operations
- BOSH can provision and deploy software across hundreds of VMs and provides monitoring, failure recovery, and software updates with zero to minimal downtime.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- BOSH documentation covers user and UAA-based permissions, SSL certificates, credential rotation, and integration with CredHub.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Target systems
- BOSH is particularly well suited for large distributed systems and can deploy Cloud Foundry or other software.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
- Windows limitation
- The CLI documentation says create-env and delete-env are not yet supported on native Windows and recommends Windows Subsystem for Linux for those commands.bosh.io · read 8 Oct 2026
