This book assumes a medium level of understanding of the Mac OS X operating system. The book will go through a simple setup of Pivotal PCF Dev, which may require a basic understanding of networking and virtualization concepts.
Pivotal PCF Dev can be installed and run your local development machine. However, this book requires that you have enough resources on your local development machine to install PCF Dev. The minimum hardware requirements are as follows:
- CPU: 4 cores
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Disk space: 40 GB
In this book, you will need the following software list:
- Linux, Mac OSX or Windows Operating System
- VirtualBox
- Cloud Foundry CLI
- Git client
- Java 8
- Maven and Gradle build tools
Internet connectivity is required to install Pivotal PCF Dev and for DNS resolution. There are options to run PCF Dev in offline mode too.