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Softlayer bosh doc enhancement #271
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Hey gu-bin! Thanks for submitting this pull request! I'm here to inform the recipients of the pull request that you and the commit authors have already signed the CLA. |
Describe the CPI workaround for issue #129 issue - cloudfoundry/bosh-softlayer-cpi-release#129 workaround - cloudfoundry/bosh-softlayer-cpi-release#205
@cppforlife Would you please merge this PR? Thanks. /cc @mattcui @maximilien |
@@ -190,16 +190,18 @@ VLANs provide the ability to partition devices and subnets on the network. To or | |||
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1. Install [bosh-init](./install-bosh-init.html). | |||
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1. Establish VPN connection between your host and Softlayer. The machine where to run bosh-init needs to communicate with the target director VM over the SoftLayer private network. |
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@gu-bin anyway to add a link from SL docs or blog post on how to do this?
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link added to the PR
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The ``Bosh_ip`` property specified under ``cloud_properties`` is used for Softlayer CPI to differentiate the director and common vms. The one with cloud_property ``Bosh_ip`` is a common vm. The one without ``Bosh_ip`` is the director. | |||
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Please notice that when the VM hostname length is exactly 64, the deployment is failing due to ssh problem. This is Softlayer’s limitation which can’t be fixed in a short term. We have a work around in the CPI that when the hostname with 64 characters is identified, a padding "-1" is appended to make it longer than 64. |
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@gu-bin please add link to issue or SL limitation. Thx
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The SL ticket can only been read by the same account which opened it. I think it doesn't make sense to paste SL ticket link here as others can't read it.
@cppforlife can we get this in the docs please. Thx |
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