Cloud Foundry
Giovanni Candido da Silva
Jan 31, 2016
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CommentsWhat 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?
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.
Google App Engine
Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.
Apache Camel
An open source Java framework that focuses on making integration easier and more accessible to developers.
