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Cloud Foundry for Developers

You're reading from   Cloud Foundry for Developers Deploy, manage, and orchestrate cloud-native applications with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788391443
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Wu David Wu
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Rick Farmer Rick Farmer
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Rahul Kumar Jain Rahul Kumar Jain
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Cloud Foundry Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Cloud Foundry CLI and Apps Manager 3. Getting Started with PCF Dev 4. Users, Orgs, Spaces, and Roles 5. Architecting and Building Apps for the Cloud 6. Deploying Apps to Cloud Foundry 7. Microservices and Worker Applications 8. Services and Service Brokers 9. Buildpacks 10. Troubleshooting Applications in Cloud Foundry 11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

What is a cloud-native application?


A cloud-native application is one that wholly embraces the traits and behavior of a Cloud platform, independently of its underlying infrastructure. Such applications are effectively highly scalable and operate in a resilient and consistent manner throughout its lifecycle.

Let us take a dive into this definition. A Cloud platform is one that operates over or is built into a Cloud infrastructure. Cloud Foundry, as described in Chapter 1, is such a platform that offers the benefits of the orchestration of containers over a number of cells (Virtual Machines), which offers the capability for application scaling, resiliency, and consistency. Application/horizontal scaling enables efficient leveraging of resources on an infrastructure, in a way that application instances could be scaled up or down to cater for varying levels of incoming traffic loads. This would maximize the utilization of the infrastructure. Contrary to this is the concept of vertical scaling...

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