Deploying to Cloud Foundry

Cloud-native applications are becoming the norm, as companies accelerate their rate of releasing to production (https://pivotal.io/cloud-native).

Cloud Native describes the patterns of high performing organizations delivering software faster, consistently and reliably at scale. Continuous delivery, DevOps, and microservices label the why, how and what of the cloud natives. In the the most advanced expression of these concepts they are intertwined to the point of being inseparable. Leveraging automation to improve human performance in a high trust culture, moving faster and safer with confidence and operational excellence.

Many cloud platforms thrive under releasing self-contained applications. The open source Cloud Foundry platform, with its support for many technologies and runnable JAR files, is one of the most popular ones.

To get started, we need either a copy of Cloud Foundry installed in our data center, or an account at Pivotal Web Services (PWS), a Cloud Foundry...