Cloud Foundry

In this chapter, we'll gain a quick introduction to the PaaS technology, Cloud Foundry.

Why Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry serves as PaaS technology for the example in this course. The following are the reasons for this:

Open source

Cloud Foundry is an open source project involving a number of companies.

Cloud Foundry is managed by a foundation, in which Cloud Foundry providers such as Pivotal, SAP, IBM, and Swisscom are organized.

This ensures broad support in addition to the already many PaaS based on the Cloud Foundry.

Easy to install

Cloud Foundry can be easily installed as a Pivotal Cloud Foundry for Local Development on a laptop to set up a local PaaS for developers to test microservices systems.

Common

There are many public cloud providers who have an offering based on Cloud Foundry. An overview can be found at: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/how-to-try-cloud-foundry/.

Can be installed on your own data center

Finally, Cloud Foundry can be installed in your own data center. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is, for example, an option for this.

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