Is there a sucessful way to set up bosh cli in windows ??

[jaikanthm]

Trying to setup bosh cli in windows and have not been successful yet

[dpb587-pivotal]

Hi - the cli doesn't currently support Windows. Since you created this issue on bosh-lite, I assume that is what you're using? If that's true, the bosh CLI is pre-installed in the bosh-lite VM, so what you could do is vagrant ssh and use the bosh command from inside the VM.

[cppforlife]

Closing. We'll update docs when bosh-cli supports Windows.

[jaikanthm]

thanks guys I did the same and I was somehow able to get bosh cli working directly from windows by installing the ruby dependencies but yeah ssh looks like a much easier option

[kseniatupytska]

Hi. Could you please clarify availability of bosh CLI on Windows.
I was able to install bosh CLI on Windows via gem and all commands were working.
But I got following exception during creating release of my project:
Cannot create tarball: tar (child): Cannot connect to C: resolve failed
tar: C:/Users/USER~1/AppData/Local/Temp/d20170203-8668-11opgm0/ruby20170203-8668-1rp5rgc.tgz: Cannot write: Broken pipe
tar: Child returned status 128

Is bosh CLI still shouldn't be used on Windows?

[allomov]

@otupytska from what I know there is no official support for windows for bosh_cli ruby gem. But did you try a new bosh-cli in golang? Since it is built in golang you can try to compile it on your windows host.

[kseniatupytska]

@allomov didn't here about new bosh-cli. Will try, thanks!

[shivdeepnv]

Hi Team, I am following the instructions in the link - https://bosh.io/docs/bosh-lite

I installed Bosh CLI using gem install on Windows (since it was an auto install, it picked up the version BOSH 1.3262.26.0)

Now, I need to install the BOSH Director VM for which I need to execute -

$ bosh create-env ~/workspace/bosh-deployment/bosh.yml \

but, it looks like create-env is an unknown command. How do I go about this?

[Infra-Red]

@shivdeepnv You should install Bosh CLI v2, bosh create-env command is not available in ruby bosh cli. https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2.html#install

[ivandavidov]

@shivdeepnv - You are using the Ruby based bosh CLI (which is v1) but the instructions say that you have to install bosh CLI v2. If you install bosh CLI v2 you will find out that the create-env command is valid.

https://bosh.io/docs/cli-v2.html#install

[shivdeepnv]

Thanks @Infra-Red and @ivandavidov. I tried this, but it does not execute correctly. I downloaded bosh-cli-2.0.28-windows-amd64.exe and tried executing this, but it opens up a command prompt and it immediately closes. When I check the version of CLI it still states V 1.3xxxx

[ivandavidov]

I strongly suggest that you try this with Linux instead of Windows. I know that all of this should work on Windows but IMHO you will get much better results and user experience in Linux.

[xu-chenyang]

maybe no people still care about this, but here is a way to fix? this issue. @shivdeepnv
(not sure is this the right way to do though...)

1. change the file name into bosh.exe.
   2.move the file to ....../system32/
   3.run bosh -v on cmd.
   4.you can use bosh command on windows now.

[Fydon]

@xu-chenyang As highlighted above the Windows build can be downloaded from bosh.io, however it has limitations highlighted in bosh-notes. There is no need to rename it or move it to system32.

If you want to help with getting this working on Windows, or want to see more details about setting up the environment, then see this post.