Cloud Foundry
Giovanni Candido da Silva
Jan 31, 2016
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Cloud Foundry
Platform as a ServiceWhat is Cloud Foundry?
Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.
Cloud Foundry is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Application and services centric lifecycle APIHigh performance dynamic routingBuildpack supportData and web services brokersLinux Container managementRole Based Access and TeamsActive application health managementStandards based user authentication and authorizationIntegrated real time logging APIMulti-provider ecosystem
Cloud Foundry Pros & Cons
Pros of Cloud Foundry
- ✓Perfectly aligned with springboot
- ✓Application health management
- ✓Free distributed tracing (zipkin)
- ✓Free service discovery (Eureka)
Cons of Cloud Foundry
No cons listed yet.
Cloud Foundry Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cloud Foundry?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
