The BOSH AutoScaler enables you to optimize the running costs of your Cloud Foundry deployments. The BOSH AutoScaler is available at: https://github.com/nttlabs/nise_bosh Cloud Foundry Summit 2014.

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Problem:
System Load is
Not Fixed

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Manually Scaling?
Always monitor load?

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Impossible
No one wants to do such a boring job

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Solution:
BOSH AutoScaler

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Architecture
Overview

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Director
BOSH
BOSH Client
BOSH Scaler (Listener)
NATS
BOSH NATS Collector
AutoScaler
(with CF Plugin)
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
(subscribe)
process
(BOSH::Monitor::Event::Heartbeat)
Event Processor
process (BOSH::Monitor::Event::Base)
Deploy
(PUT /deployments)
matching rules against log
periodically
Logging metrics✂@buffers run()
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
CF Varz Collector
process (Scaler::CfVarzMetric)
CF
CF Component
CF Component
CF Component
Collector
TSDB
Varz
Load policies
(GET /deployments)

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Director
BOSH
BOSH Client
BOSH Scaler (Listener)
NATS
BOSH NATS Collector
AutoScaler
(with CF Plugin)
Heartbeat
Heartbeat
(subscribe)
process
(BOSH::Monitor::Event::Heartbeat)
Event Processor
process (BOSH::Monitor::Event::Base)
Deploy
(PUT /deployments)
matching rules against log
periodically
Logging metrics✂@buffers run()
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
CF Varz Collector
process (Scaler::CfVarzMetric)
CF
CF Component
CF Component
CF Component
Collector
TSDB
Varz
Load policies
(GET /deployments)

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Policy Definitions

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Defining policies
•! Adding “scale” section
•! Defining conditions for
each job
•! Various condition classes
to define flexible policies
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Web UI

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Getting Started
It’s easy to plug in

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Optimize
Running Costs with
BOSH AutoScaler