Yesterday, Cloud Foundry demonstrated how you can use Cloud Foundry and the BOSH CPI with Google Compute Engine. Since Compute Engine became Generally Available in December, 2013, we've seen an ever increasing number of open source projects, partners, and other software vendors build in support of our platform.



Cloud Foundry's post covers using BOSH to deploy a Hadoop cluster on Compute Engine and manage it with Cloud Foundry. With Compute Engine's fast and consistent provisioning, Cloud Foundry was able to deploy a working Hadoop cluster in less than 3 minutes! So in a few short minutes, you are able to start your Hadoop processing. When combined with Compute Engine's sub-hour billing and sustained-use discounts, you have multiple options for keeping costs low.



- Posted by Eric Johnson, Program Manager