[dinfarfar]

I agree, BOSH is pretty darn cool. Once you have learned the quirks of it.

Currently I think a couple of things that stands in the way of it being more widespread.

* Its tedious to create a new release.

* The documentation is scattered.

* Distributing a release can be a bit tricky. Spiff + deployment templates doesn't really scale that well. For CF we have to pipe to a mod script just because the original templates are not flexible enough, i.e "./generate-manifest infra stub.yml | ./add-extra-releases-and-change-static-logging-levels-and-other-random-stuff > manifest.yml"

* Its sufficiently different even for a seasoned admin that it will take some time to get up and running and understanding how stuff fits together end to end. Currently it feels like the only way to understand BOSH is to understand BOSH.

[zaksoup]

Those are really good points and they're actively working on improving all of the points you've mentioned. I can't encourage you enough to join the IRC channel or create Github issues, especially with regards to the documentation. I personally spent a significant portion of time working directly with the project manager on improving the documentation, but your feedback too is invaluable. Please speak up about these issues to the team or submit pull requests. They love to see this kind of feedback and these kinds of contributions.