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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

The cf CLI


Nearly every great leap in computing began at some point in a Terminal. Bathed in the glory of a text-based User Interface (UI), the cf CLI issues commands made of user-typed text to an unseen program running behind the scenes performing an elaborate sequence of steps to execute the developer's will. The Command Line Interpreter, often mistaken as the Command Line Interface, is also abbreviated to the acronym CLI. Terminal-based CLI programs are a common daily tool in the system operator's world, but often less common in the world of application developers. The rise of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse, Visual Studio, and IntelliJ as places where all code is written and compiled, with productivity enhancers such as code suggestions and autocomplete, has reduced the need for developers to jump down to the level of the Terminal as often as their historic roots once required. The IDE is a great tool in the way that it abstracts away the Terminal commands...