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Cloud Foundry for Developers

By : Rahul Kumar Jain, Rick Farmer, David Wu
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Cloud Foundry for Developers

By: Rahul Kumar Jain, Rick Farmer, David Wu

Overview of this book

Cloud Foundry is the open source platform to deploy, run, and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is growing rapidly and a leading product that provides PaaS (Platform as a Service) capabilities to enterprise, government, and organizations around the globe. Giants like Dell Technologies, GE, IBM, HP and the US government are using Cloud Foundry innovate faster in a rapidly changing world. Cloud Foundry is a developer’s dream. Enabling them to create modern applications that can leverage the latest thinking, techniques and capabilities of the cloud, including: ? DevOps ? Application Virtualization ? Infrastructure agnosticism ? Orchestrated containers ? Automation ? Zero downtime upgrades ? A/B deployment ? Quickly scaling applications out or in This book takes readers on a journey where they will first learn the Cloud Foundry basics, including how to deploy and scale a simple application in seconds. Readers will build their knowledge of how to create highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications and microservices running on Cloud Foundry. Readers will learn how to integrate their application with services provided by Cloud Foundry and with those external to Cloud Foundry. Readers will learn how to structure their Cloud Foundry environment with orgs and spaces. After that, we’ll discuss aspects of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), monitoring and logging. Readers will also learn how to enable health checks, troubleshoot and debug applications. By the end of this book, readers will have hands-on experience in performing various deployment and scaling tasks. Additionally, they will have an understanding of what it takes to migrate and develop applications for Cloud Foundry.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my mother, Margaret Farmer-Maguire—you are the inexhaustible well of eternal inspiration for your sons—a profile in persistence, always our happy and tireless warrior, inevitably creating outcomes that many would have thought impossible. Thank you for choosing me to be your son. An eternity of gratitude is not enough; thanks for all that you’ve done for our family.

– Rick Farmer

I would like to dedicate this book to my beloved late grandfather N. C. Mittal, parents, sisters, wife, and kids for their continuous encouragement and support. To my mom, Neena Jain, thank you for backing me and motivating me to try new things in life. To my wife and friend, Veenu, thank you for your love, patience, and enduring support. Without you all, I would not have been what I am now.

– Rahul Jain

I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, mother, beloved father and sister, and mentor Dr H. R. Wu and his wife. To my wife, Sharon, for being there for me and providing me with never-ending loving patience, support, guidance, ideas, and encouragement. To my parents and sister, thank you for your guidance and support. To my friend and mentor, Dr H. R. Wu and his wife, Mei, thank you both for your tireless support, guidance, and inspirational discussions. You all have made an important mark in the chapters of my life, to which these words can never truly express my heartfelt gratitude.

– David Wu