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I’m talking to you vmware people. It’s time you downloaded and starting testing/deploying/building/breaking/hacking on cloudfoundry. This may be the coolest vmware project I’ve seen since ESX. seriously. I won’t go into how it could change application deployment on servers moving forward, or how it’ll help reshape the idea of application development altogether, there’s enough folks that are talking about that. I just want to see more of you getting your hands dirty with it.

But how do we get started quickly?

1. download an Ubuntu 11.10 Server iso.

2. Create a vm in vmware. I’ll assume you’re good there and skip that part.
3. mount your new iso and install Ubuntu Server 11.10 server.
   when you get to package selection, do nothing. just do a minimal install.

4. update and upgrade your system
   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

5. install a supporting package for step 6…
   sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

6. add the cloudfoundry repositories
   sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cloudfoundry/ppa

7. update and install cloudfoundry server
   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cloudfoundry-server
   During the install process you’ll be asked to set the root password for the mysql server that is installed as a dependency. You’ll also be asked for IP address information. This is information you’ll need to have if you want you installation to be publicly visible and is behind a firewall.

   Yea, it’s that easy.

   client install

   If you want to get the client installed on a different vm, follow the steps above on a fullblown Ubuntu to install the repositories (steps 5 and 6 above)

   Once that’s done it’s as easy as
   sudo apt-get install cloudfoundry-client
   to get the vmc installed.

   That should have all taken up about 15-20 minutes of your life, start to finish. (post downloads of course)

   Where to go from here?

   Dustin Kirkland has some great writeups about ubuntu and cloudfoundry so I recommend reading up on his blog here for some great examples.

   I’ll follow this up with some posts about wordpress and how to get it running in a cloudfoundry deployment soonish.