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Cloud Foundry vs OpenStack: What are the differences?
Introduction
Cloud Foundry and OpenStack are two widely used open-source cloud computing platforms. While both platforms offer cloud infrastructure and services, there are several key differences between them.
Architecture: Cloud Foundry is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a fully managed application runtime environment. It abstracts the underlying infrastructure and automates the deployment and scaling of applications. On the other hand, OpenStack is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software that offers a suite of components for managing and controlling cloud infrastructure resources like compute, storage, and networking.
Focus: Cloud Foundry primarily focuses on simplifying application development and deployment. It provides developers with a higher level of abstraction, allowing them to focus on writing code rather than managing infrastructure. OpenStack, on the other hand, emphasizes the management and orchestration of infrastructure resources.
Multi-Tenancy: Cloud Foundry natively supports multi-tenancy, allowing multiple users or organizations to operate within a shared environment while keeping their applications and data isolated. OpenStack also provides multi-tenancy through the concept of projects and tenants, allowing different users to have their own virtual resources within the same infrastructure.
Deployment Models: Cloud Foundry typically runs on public or private cloud infrastructure, providing a ready-to-use application platform. OpenStack, on the other hand, offers more flexibility in terms of deployment models. It can be used to build private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, or even edge computing environments.
Abstraction Level: Cloud Foundry abstracts away the infrastructure and provides a higher level of abstraction to developers, allowing them to focus on application development and deployment. OpenStack, while providing infrastructure abstraction, still requires users to have a good understanding of the underlying compute, storage, and networking components.
Community Support: Both Cloud Foundry and OpenStack have active and thriving open-source communities. However, Cloud Foundry has a more focused community of application developers and operators, while OpenStack has a broader community that includes infrastructure engineers, operators, and developers working on various aspects of cloud infrastructure.
In summary, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack differ in their architecture, focus, multi-tenancy support, deployment models, abstraction level, and the nature of their respective open-source communities.
Pros of Cloud Foundry
- Perfectly aligned with springboot2
- Free distributed tracing (zipkin)1
- Application health management1
- Free service discovery (Eureka)1
Pros of OpenStack
- Private cloud60
- Avoid vendor lock-in39
- Flexible in use23
- Industry leader7
- Robust architecture5
- Supported by many companies in top5004