Cloud Foundry Stop and Start

Maybe you need to save on public IaaS costs by shutting down your Cloud Foundry foundation. Maybe you need to put Cloud Foundry into a state of suspended animation while you do hardware maintenance. Maybe, maybe, maybe. But how?

The simplest way:

For 1.9, the stop / start procedure is:

1. Scale down etcd_tls_server, consul_server, mysql and diego_database to 1 instance
2. bosh stop
3. bosh start
4. If needing HA, scale instance groups back up to original or desired counts

For 1.10, the stop / start procedure is:

1. Scale down etcd_tls_server, consul_server and mysql to 1 instance
2. bosh stop
3. bosh start
4. Scale instance groups back up to original or desired counts

Note: If you are using a public IaaS such as AWS or GCP you can additionally add the —hard to bosh stop in order to kill the VMs as well.

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