The micro instance enables you to do local development in .NET on the Stackato Micro Cloud from ActiveState instance. The Iron Foundry team has worked very hard to make this an easy transition without much hassle. You are four steps away from running your own cloud locally with .NET support:
It is very easy to get your Stackato Micro Cloud running. Here are the simple steps taken:
/etc/hosts
in OS-X or Linux and C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\hostsin
Windows. Add the IP and host to the file with entries like these: 192.168.NNN.YYYY stackato-XXXX.local api.stackato-xxxx.local testwebapp.stackato-xxxx.local
Now that you have the Stackato Micro Cloud installed and up and running you can easily extend it to support .NET with the Iron Foundry Micro Cloud. The Iron Foundry Micro Cloud is a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition Server running in the Core role and has no software keys initialized which means you will need to provide your own license key to keep it running after the Windows trial period.
Here are the steps to get started:
C:\Users\Administrator>cd C:\IronFoundry\Setup C:\IronFoundry\Setup>RunSetup.cmd
Once the setup process is done you can use Cloud Foundry Explorer (http://app.ironfoundry.me/download) to push an ASP.NET application. I’ve attached a sample ASP.NET application. Click the gear icon to add a cloud, click the green + button to add a New Server. Rename server to something and add an api url of api.stackato-XXXX.local, email and password. Clicking ”Validate Account” should succeed. Once the cloud is added, you can use push and choose that cloud to publish to it. You should use “testwebapp” as the name since you added it to the hosts file above. Once pushed, you can visit http://testwebapp.stackato-XXXX.local to browse to your application, and http://testwebapp.stackato-XXXX.local/env to see more detailed info.
Now that you have been able to setup your Cloud Foundry instance running Iron Foundry you can now push and update your application by doing the following:
Choose “Manage Clouds...” to set up your new Micro Iron Foundry Cloud
Choose “Manage Clouds...”
Choose "Micro Cloud" from the dropdown at the bottom left. Be sure to replace "{username}" in the URL text box with the appropriate username entered in the Micro Cloud Foundry sign up. Enter your credentials and validate the connection
When your account validates, close the “Add Cloud” and Explorer windows to return to the push dialog.
Select the services you want to bind to your application such as a database.
Click the “Push” and it will package it up and push it live doing all the configuration of the services and application into Cloud Foundry with Iron Foundry.