I'm a fresher for Cloud Foundry. And I have setup a local environment following Deploying Cloud Foundry. Then I want to deploy the components of Cloud Foundry into different physical node directly, because i have no AWS or Openstack environment.
So, my question is:
Is it possible to deploy cloud foundry into multi physical node directly? and how?
Should I study BOSH, if not, what should do?
It is not possible to deploy Cloud Foundry into a physical node directly, in it's current form Cloud Foundry needs to have a Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) to manage the virtual machines that hold the different components.
If you want to work with Cloud Foundry understanding BOSH is essential. A good place to start is to see how others have implemented BOSH releases. A favorite of mine is the RabbitMQ BOSH release here.
Cloud Foundry PaaS is deployed using BOSH.
BOSH is a project that unifies release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management of small and large-scale cloud software. BOSH can provision and deploy software over hundreds of VMs. It also performs monitoring, failure recovery, and software updates with zero-to-minimal downtime.
You can deploy CF as long as you can implement Bosh CPI that is dedicated for your "multi physical node" infrastructure.
For example, you can provide these REST endpoints and use OpenStack CPI :)
