A premium has been placed on reducing the complexities of a Cloud Foundry installation when it comes to PCF Dev. PCF Dev starts as a cf CLI plug-in that is downloaded from PivNet that extends the capability of the cf CLI that was previously installed on your system. The 10-20 minutes separating you from your first local cf push is highly dependent on the speed of your internet connection, because the first time PCF Dev is started, it will download a 4 GB virtual appliance that installs as a 20 GB virtual image into the VirtualBox application running on the local machine.
20 minutes to cf push with PCF Dev
Installing PCF Dev
Use the following steps to install PCF Dev on your local machine:
- Open the URL for PCF Dev on...