BOSH

Spec sheet

Purpose

BOSH unifies release engineering, deployment, and lifecycle management for small and large scale cloud software.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Automation

BOSH supports automated software release creation and updating complex deployed systems with simple commands.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

CLI

The BOSH CLI is a command-line tool for deployment operations and software release management.Read 4 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

CLI availability

The BOSH CLI is available as a binary for the user’s operating system and through Homebrew on macOS or Linux; the documentation says it is not published through apt or yum repositories.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Cloud providers

BOSH supports VMware vSphere, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and Alibaba Cloud.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Community support

The BOSH community directs users to Cloud Foundry Slack and a mailing list for questions and discussion.Read 4 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Extensibility

Its Cloud Provider Interface lets users extend BOSH to support additional IaaS providers, including Apache CloudStack and VirtualBox.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Intended use

BOSH is particularly well-suited for large distributed systems and can deploy software beyond Cloud Foundry, including Hadoop.Read 4 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Open source

BOSH describes itself as part of the open-source community and points users to its code in the cloudfoundry GitHub organizations.Read 4 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Open source and support

BOSH is open source, with community help available through Cloud Foundry Slack and the cf-bosh mailing list.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Release engineering

BOSH lets developers and teams version, package, and deploy software reproducibly, and automates software releases and updates to complex deployed systems.Read 4 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Reproducible releases

BOSH lets developers and teams version, package, and deploy software reproducibly, and its release workflow tracks software components and operating system dependencies.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Scale and operations

BOSH can provision and deploy software across hundreds of VMs and provides monitoring, failure recovery, and software updates with zero to minimal downtime.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Security controls

BOSH documentation covers user and UAA-based permissions, SSL certificates, credential rotation, and integration with CredHub.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Target systems

BOSH is particularly well suited for large distributed systems and can deploy Cloud Foundry or other software.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Windows limitation

The CLI documentation says create-env and delete-env are not yet supported on native Windows and recommends Windows Subsystem for Linux for those commands.Read 8 Oct 2026 · bosh.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Release Orchestration Software#13 of 297.5