Cloud Foundry is the open source platform to deploy, run, and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is growing rapidly and is one of the leading product that provides Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities to enterprise, government, and organizations around the globe. Giants such as Dell Technologies, GE, IBM, HP, and the US Government are using Cloud Foundry to 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 these:
- DevOps
- Application Virtualization
- Infrastructure agnosticism
- Orchestrated containers
- Automation
- Zero downtime upgrades
- A/B deployment
- Quickly scaling applications out or in
This book will take readers on a journey where they will first learn 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, and 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.
