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…s a steeper learning curve. Maybe I got spoiled by living in the Spring eco-system for too long :). With the latest announcement of PKS, it appears that Pivotal Cloud Foundry is set to offer the best integrated PaaS — one that lets you run cloud native applications as quickly and simply as possible, while also exposing the best generic container runtime when that is needed. I can see this becoming very useful in many scenarios. For example, Apache Kafka is one of the best…
…ything that is referred to as PCF in this article) is now called Pivotal Application Service (PAS). There is also a new serverless solution called Pivotal Function Service (PFS), and lastly — a new Kubernetes runtime called Pivotal Container Service (PKS). This means that Pivotal Cloud Foundry now gives you the best of both worlds: A great application runtime for fast onboarding of cloud-native applications, as well as a great container runtime when you need to develop generic low-level containers.
A little more of a walled garden, more controlled, better design/experience layer, and a commitment for delivering a great product. I feel like the platform is more focused, and focus is critical in my line of work.