{"id":12286,"date":"2016-02-17T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T05:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2021-03-12T04:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:37:13","slug":"demo-configuring-hpe-helion-stackato-on-a-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/demo-configuring-hpe-helion-stackato-on-a-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Demo: Configuring HPE Helion Stackato on a Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/span>Preface<\/span><\/h3>\n
In 2015, Hewlett-Packard acquired Stackato\u2014a PaaS solution built on Cloud Foundry and Docker\u2014from ActiveState. When the tech giant split into two companies, Stackato became a part of the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) portfolio.<\/p>\n
Today, HPE ships the HPE Helion Platform that combines both its IaaS and PaaS technologies. The PaaS offering, particularly, comes in two flavors: HPE Helion Stackato and HPE Helion Development Platform. While the former supports multiple IaaS products, such as AWS, Azure, and VMware, the latter is a version of HPE Helion Stackato tightly integrated with HPE infrastructure based on OpenStack services.<\/p>\n
HPE also announced the technical preview of HPE Helion Cloud Foundry, a certified implementation of Cloud Foundry, in December 2015.<\/p>\n
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<\/span>Running a VirtualBox micro cloud<\/span><\/h3>\n
At the recent CF Beat<\/a> meetup, Sujay Maheshwari presented HPE Helion Stackato working on a laptop. In a short demo, he showed how to configure your Helion Stackato micro cloud for local development and testing as well as how to push a sample application to it via Docker.<\/p>\n
Before deploying applications to Helion Stackato, you need: <\/p>\n
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VirtualBox<\/li>\n
the Helion Stackato<\/a> VM image for VirtualBox<\/li>\n
the Stackato client<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
After performing the initial setup, connect and log in to Helion Stackato with the `stackato target<\/code> and stackato login<\/code> commands to start deploying your applications. During the presentation, however, Sujay used the helion<\/code> client instead of stackato<\/code>.<\/p>\n`
`\n<\/a> \n \nFor the detailed information on how to run HPE Helion Stackato on your local machine, check out the following tutorials prepared by the HPE team:<\/p>\n`
\nInstalling HPE Helion Stackato Virtualbox<\/a><\/li>\n Deploying your first application to HPE Helion Stackato<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n<\/span>Deploying a sample application via Docker<\/span><\/h3>\nDocker images can be pushed to Helion Stackato. In the second part of the demo, Sujay deployed a Docker application and bound a data service to it.<\/p>\n \n<\/a> \n \nFor the stackato<\/code> client, the commands are:<\/p>\n \nstackato push --docker-image alvaropeon\/chatter --as chatter --mem 256 --no-start -n<\/code><\/li>\n stackato create-service redis chatter-redis<\/code><\/li>\n stackato bind-service chatter-redis chatter<\/code><\/li>\nstackato start chatter<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>Altoros Take<\/div>\nWith the evolution of Cloud Foundry and its growing adoption among enterprises, the demand for a smaller version of the platform has become evident. Currently, a number of solutions for experimenting with Cloud Foundry functionality are available from different providers of the PaaS.<\/p>\n The mentioned scaled-down version of HPE Helion Stackato for local environments, which does not require BOSH to get started, complements well the existing collection of micro Cloud Foundry offerings.<\/p>\n For OSS Cloud Foundry, BOSH Lite remains the basic method of work with local PaaS installations. In addition, the Lattice<\/a> project that includes three Cloud Foundry components\u2014Diego, Loggregator, and Router\u2014resides in the Cloud Foundry Incubator repository.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n <\/span>Related reading<\/span><\/h3>\n\nHosting an App on the HP Helion Development Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n <\/span>Related video<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\nTable of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\nSetting up Helion Stackato on a local machine (01’34”<\/a>)<\/li>\n Connecting and logging in to Helion Stackato (04’26”<\/a>)<\/li>\n Pushing a Docker image (05’40”<\/a>)<\/li>\n Creating and binding a Redis service to an app (06’12”<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n