Porting Cloud Foundry on POWER8 Ubuntu LE

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Some colleagues from IBM and I have been working on a port of Cloud Foundry and BOSH automation on POWER 8 Ubuntu LE. In this blog, I would like to share some first steps that we have taken. Developers interested in working with IBM on various aspects of the port drop a note in this forum.

At a high level, we had to create some power specific extensions as deplicted in the following figure in the green ovals:

1. We have introduced some extensions to this github.com fork for the bosh repo. https://github.com/hashmap/bosh to create openstack stemcells for ppc64le. These commands can be run on a ppc64le VM to create a stemcell:
   1. nohup bundle exec rake stemcell:build_os_image[ubuntu,trusty,/tmp/ubuntu_base_image.tgz]
   2. env STEMCELL_BUILD_NUMBER=2905 bundle exec rake stemcell:build_with_local_os_image[openstack,kvm,ubuntu,trusty,go,/tmp/ubuntu_base_image.tgz]
2. We have also started updating the scripts in cf-release to be able to deploy different cloud foundry jobs such as the DEA. The changes to the script are in this github.com fork: https://github.com/hashmap/cf-release . These commands can create a release for ppc64le:
   bosh create release --force --name <>
   bosh upload release
3. Both bosh and cf-release depend on a number of binary blobs. I will post some instructions on how to create these blobs for ppc64le in a separate blog entry.

Welcome comments and questions!!