I am performing the tutorial learn bosh and got a question concerning step Set Deployment Manifest.
Why do I have to set the director_uuid manually in the deployment manifest (which I then upload to the very same director)? Is this a security feature?
According to the document, director_uuid is for CLI to operate target Director.
Deployment Identification
name [String, required]: The name of the deployment. A single Director can manage multiple deployments and distinguishes them by name.
director_uuid [String, required]: This string must match the UUID of the currently targeted Director for the CLI to allow any operations on the deployment. Use bosh status to display the UUID of the currently targeted Director.
Refer to: BOSH documentation
Cloud Foundry can provide Cloud Service like PaaS. If you deploy a manifest to the wrong environment that means your customer's environment could break down. That complicated parameter helps you to avoid miss operation in your operational environment.