I love BOSH. I have many conversations with people about where BOSH is going so I thought it a good idea to capture my thinking in a post. This post.
Two Options
BOSH deploys and manages all the things. It’s the best distributed-system-system I’ve ever used.
BOSH should be the deployer of Diego and other container schedulers.
- Diego et al deploy and manage all the things.
- Diego becomes something like Service Foundry.
- The world is a better place because non-12-Factor-app developers have a contract to develop to, and the fast-feedback of container-driven deployments.
I currently favour option 2 but reserve the right to change my mind as I learn over time. Previous attempts to build multi-purpose stateful/stateless PaaSs haven’t gone amazingly well. If you’re building a stateful service right now, build it for BOSH, not Diego.
What Next?
We’ll be exploring the cool new future of Diego in a LoPUG hack day and looking at ideas like a Diego CPI for BOSH, persistent disks, and TCP networking in PaaS. Join us to find out more.