key benefits of Pivotal Cloud Foundry

1. What is Cloud Foundry? Cloud Foundry is an open resource cloud computing platform initially developed in-house at VMware. It is currently owned by Pivotal Software, which is a combined venture made up of VMware, EMC, and General Electric. Cloud Foundry is optimized to deliver: •Fast application development and deployment. •Highly scalable and available architecture. •DevOps-friendly workflows. •A reduced chance of human error. •Multi-tenant compute efficiencies. Not only can Cloud Foundry lighten developer workloads, but because Cloud Foundry handles so much of an application’s resource management it can also greatly reduce the overhead burden on your operations team, freeing your resources for development. What are the key benefits of Cloud Foundry? •Application portability. •Application auto-scaling. •Centralized platform administration. •Centralized logging. •Dynamic routing. •Application health management. •Combination with external logging components like Elastic search and Log stash. •Role-based access for deployed applications. •Provision for vertical and horizontal scaling. •Infrastructure security. •Support for various IaaS providers. Getting started with Cloud Foundry Before deciding whether Cloud Foundry is for you, you’ll have to try in point of fact deploying a real application. As already mentioned, to set up a suitable environment you will first need an infrastructure layer. As of June 2019, Cloud Foundry runs on AWS, Azure, Google Compute Platform (GCP), OpenStack,VMware vSphere, SoftLayer, and others. For a first step, we’ll look at some basics of setting up Cloud Foundry with Pivotal Web Services (PWS).