filebeat-boshrelease

BOSH release for filebeat log shipper.

filebeat is a logshipper from elastic (elastic.co).

Creating a development bosh release

bosh create release --force
bosh upload release

Deploying to bosh-lite.

a sample cloud-config and deployment manifest is provided in the templates directory.

bosh update cloud-config templates/bosh-lite-cloud-config.yml
bosh deployment templates/bosh-lite-deployment.yml
bosh deploy

Creating a final release

1. create bosh final release (requires s3 credentials in config/final.yml)

export VERSION=x.y.z
bosh create-release --final --version=$VERSION --name=filebeat --tarball=releases/filebeat/filebeat-$VERSION.tgz

1. commit and push changes

git add releases .final_builds/
git commit -m"BOSH release $VERSION"
git tag v$VERSION
git push origin master
git push --tags

1. Create a release from the new tag and upload the tarball releases/filebeat/filebeat-$VERSION.tgz.

It is helpful to include a releases snippet showing how to include this release into a deployment. To generate the sha of the tarball blob:

shasum releases/filebeat/filebeat-$VERSION.tgz