{"id":46493,"date":"2014-07-17T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=46493"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:11:18","slug":"net-on-cloud-foundry-part-1-installation-on-windows-and-using-iron-foundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/net-on-cloud-foundry-part-1-installation-on-windows-and-using-iron-foundry\/","title":{"rendered":".NET on Cloud Foundry, Part 1: Installing on Windows and Using Iron Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  • Creating .NET apps with Iron Foundry<\/a><\/li>
  • Installing Cloud Foundry on Windows: failed<\/a><\/li>
  • ironfoundry.me<\/a><\/li>
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    <\/span>Creating .NET apps with Iron Foundry<\/span><\/h3>\n

    PaaS has revolutionized the way applications are developed and deployed. With reduced delivery cycles and full automation, PaaS users can reach the market faster, significantly improving ROI and time-to-revenue. Cloud Foundry<\/a> is one of the most popular open-source solutions for enterprises.<\/p>\n

    Until recently, .NET developers\u2014who constitute a large part of software delivery folks\u2014had rather limited access to Cloud Foundry’s services. The Iron Foundry project has corrected this imbalance by providing support for .NET on Cloud Foundry. It is not merely an extension, but an entire collection of tools and services .NET developers are used to working with, e.g. MS SQL and Message Bus-as-a-Service. These services can be bound to applications, so you do not have to worry about infrastructure and maintenance.<\/p>\n

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    This post starts a series that will explore the capabilities of Iron Foundry. To show you how this platform works and try its services in action, we are going to create a validation prototype using a mixture of .NET and Node.js. We will rely on the cloud-first approach in our investigation on how application interaction, management, and deployment are implemented in this platform. By the end of the series, you will learn everything you need to know about creating .NET apps on Iron Foundry.<\/p>\n

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    <\/span>Installing Cloud Foundry on Windows: failed<\/span><\/h3>\n

    The standard Cloud Foundry edition supports a great variety of programming languages and operating systems, but Windows is not on that list, unfortunately. Still, it does not mean you cannot use this PaaS on Windows machines. In this post, we will share our experience of integrating Cloud Foundry with Iron Foundry<\/a>, an open-source framework for running .NET applications.<\/p>\n

    Although, we had never installed Cloud Foundry on Windows before creating this post, we knew that\u2014in theory\u2014it could be done with BOSH-lite. Once the PaaS is installed, you can add DEA and Warden components from Iron Foundry. If you choose this way and use Cygwin, you will also have to install Ruby, Python, and Go to enable compilation of components locally.<\/p>\n

    However, the reality was not as simple. In the beginning, we were rather excited by the idea of deploying a local cloud, but something went wrong at the end of the installation. We got a “Package is corrupted”<\/em> error, which means that uploading Cloud Foundry packages failed. We tried different releases, but it seems the BOSH CLI has a bug specific to the Windows environment. Hopefully, this will be fixed very soon.<\/p>\n

    We recorded the installation process, which you can check out in a two-minute video with all the commands below.<\/p>\n