bosh deploy manifest/cfcr.yml doesn't "just work"

[drnic]

As per manifests/README.md:

$ bosh deploy manifest/cfcr.yml
...
Task 6 | 00:55:19 | Preparing deployment: Preparing deployment (00:00:00)
                   L Error: Release 'kubo' doesn't exist

Can we please start automatically updating cfcr.yml with the latest kubo + other release versions?

[cf-gitbot]

We have created an issue in Pivotal Tracker to manage this:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/155998950

The labels on this github issue will be updated when the story is started.

[cppforlife]

+1000, i keep on having problem wiht this as well. preferable let's update with compiled releases.

[glestaris]

Hey @drnic / @cppforlife, given that CFCR is still pre-1.0 and that things are still fairly fluid, the team discussed postponing making this commitment for a bit longer. I personally think this is a good pattern, but it could lead to several issues if enabled today.

An example of that is #287.

cc @karampok

[drnic]

At CF Summit I'm giving a talk based around the PR I did last year and the 'it just works' concept for BOSH operators. I understand that your priorities aren't my CF Summit talk :)

So, I spent yesterday + today and came up with CI pipeline to pre-compile everything (except bosh-dns 0.2.0 which fails) and reconstruct a new cfcr.yml - https://github.com/starkandwayne/cfcr-compiled-deployment

Give the following one-liner a go:

bosh -d cfcr deploy <(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/starkandwayne/cfcr-compiled-deployment/master/cfcr.yml)

[giner]

There is no big difference between downloading / uploading a tarball and specifying URL to this tarball in manifest as under the hood bosh cli is doing the same thing. Can somebody clarify why cannot we just add the following to the manifest?

releases:
- name: kubo
  url: https://bosh.io/d/github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/kubo-release?v=0.19.0
  sha1: 03a540bbe32e074abd9eb41503b9e39d29a1321d
  version: 0.19.0

[drnic]

All that is required is a step in CI to update cfcr.yml

Some sample scripts to do this are in https://github.com/starkandwayne/pipeline-templates/tree/master/boshrelease

[alex-slynko]

Starting from now on, master branch will be always deployable 🎉

[drnic]

kubo-deployment/manifests/cfcr.yml

Lines 186 to 190 in 1a80fb3

	releases:
	- name: kubo
	sha1: e4b157aee849be24062d5255607b5696ef2ab524
	url: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/kubo-release/releases/download/v0.22.0/kubo-release-0.22.0.tgz
	version: 0.22.0

Great work!