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Cloud Foundry vs Docker: What are the differences?

What is Cloud Foundry? Deploy and scale applications in seconds on your choice of private or public cloud. 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.

What is Docker? Enterprise Container Platform for High-Velocity Innovation. The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere.

Cloud Foundry can be classified as a tool in the "Platform as a Service" category, while Docker is grouped under "Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers".

Some of the features offered by Cloud Foundry are:

Application and services centric lifecycle API
High performance dynamic routing
Buildpack support

On the other hand, Docker provides the following key features:

Integrated developer tools
open, portable images
shareable, reusable apps

Cloud Foundry and Docker are both open source tools. Docker with 54K GitHub stars and 15.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Cloud Foundry with 605 GitHub stars and 532 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Docker has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3527 company stacks & 3449 developers stacks; compared to Cloud Foundry, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

Decisions about Cloud Foundry and Docker

Florian Sager

IT DevOp at Agitos GmbH · Oct 22, 2019 | 2 upvotes · 176.4K views

Chose

LXD

over

Docker

lxd/lxc and Docker aren't congruent so this comparison needs a more detailed look; but in short I can say: the lxd-integrated administration of storage including zfs with its snapshot capabilities as well as the system container (multi-process) approach of lxc vs. the limited single-process container approach of Docker is the main reason I chose lxd over Docker.

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Pros of Cloud Foundry

Pros of Docker

1
Perfectly aligned with springboot
1
Free distributed tracing (zipkin)
1
Application health management
1
Free service discovery (Eureka)

821
Rapid integration and build up
688
Isolation
517
Open source
504
Testability and reproducibility
459
Lightweight
217
Standardization
182
Scalable
105
Upgrading / downgrading / application versions
86
Security
84
Private paas environments
33
Portability
25
Limit resource usage
15
I love the way docker has changed virtualization
15
Game changer
12
Fast
11
Concurrency
7
Docker's Compose tools
4
Fast and Portable
4
Easy setup
4
Because its fun
3
Makes shipping to production very simple
2
It's dope
1
Highly useful
1
MacOS support FAKE
1
Its cool
1
Docker hub for the FTW
1
Very easy to setup integrate and build
1
Package the environment with the application
1
Does a nice job hogging memory
1
Open source and highly configurable
1
Simplicity, isolation, resource effective

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Cons of Cloud Foundry

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New versions == broken features
4
Unreliable networking
4
Documentation not always in sync
3
Moves quickly
1
Not Secure

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What 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.

What is Docker?

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

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Jobs that mention Cloud Foundry and Docker as a desired skillset

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IT Ops Lead Technician (Contract)

San Francisco, CA, US

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+16

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+16

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+14

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What are some alternatives to Cloud Foundry and Docker?

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

Terraform

With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

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