When should you use Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes?

SAP BTP offers the Cloud Foundry application runtime, which is optimized for enterprise application developers to build stateless apps (that follows the 12-factor apps methodology) without worrying about the heavy lifting of deployment and scaling. Alongside Cloud Foundry, SAP BTP offers Kubernetes for both non-opinionated and opinionated workloads, supporting a broader range of technical capabilities and use cases. However, these additional capabilities come at the price of additional learning curves and effort in the day-to-day jobs of a developer. SAP’s strategy is to make use of the benefits of to suit the different needs of its customers.

Equally, making the decision about which runtime to use requires sufficient information about the technology roadmap and means committing to a specific set of tools, technologies, support, and processes, as migrating from one to another can be very challenging. So, between Cloud Foundry...