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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

Who are Pivotal and the Cloud Foundry Foundation?


In April 2013, Dell EMC and VMware formed a new company called Pivotal. Each parent company contributed people, software, products, and collateral that were not core to their own business to this new entity. This included 11 companies that had been acquired by the parent companies at one point or another. Soon after, with further investment from additional companies, such as General Electric, Ford, and Microsoft, Pivotal's mission focused sharply on transforming the way the world makes software.  

Cloud Foundry, along with several other notable projects like the Spring Framework for Java (https://spring.io) and RabbitMQ (http://www.rabbitmq.com) for message brokering, were included in the Pivotal origin story.

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Soon after its creation, Pivotal, together with other enterprise leaders, sought to create the Cloud Foundry Foundation to ensure the ongoing stewardship of the Cloud Foundry community and its open source software. The foundation was created as an independent non-profit under the Linux Foundation. Since its founding in January 2015, over 70 companies (https://www.cloudfoundry.org/members/) have joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation and continue the mission to drive the global awareness and adoption of the Cloud Foundry open source project, to grow a vibrant community of contributors, and to create coherence in strategy and action across all member companies for the sake of the project.

The Cloud Foundry Foundation exists to:

  • Establish and sustain Cloud Foundry as the global industry standard PaaS open source technology with a thriving ecosystem
  • Deliver continuous quality, value, and innovation to users, operators, and providers of Cloud Foundry technology
  • Provide a vibrant, agile experience for the community’s contributors that delivers the highest quality cloud-native applications and software, at high velocity with global scale

Note

You can find more detail on the Cloud Foundry Foundation and its mission at https://www.cloudfoundry.org/foundation.