Cloud Foundry environment within SAP Cloud Platform — 1
Ref: https://courses.edx.org/ Introduction to Cloud Foundry and Cloud-Native Software Architecture
What is cloud foundry?
Cloud Foundry is an Open Source cloud computing platform that provides Platform as a Service or PaaS.
Cloud Foundry manages many of the details of running our application in production. This helps our team to focus on writing code over thinking about deployment.
Cloud Foundry is a container-based platform. This means that it uses industry standards to orchestrate and run cloud-native applications. A cloud-native application is any application that was designed to run on a PaaS, like Cloud Foundry.
It allows developers to use different programming languages, runtimes, and ready-made services.
Where can the cloud foundry run?
There are multiple places that can run Cloud Foundry on the cloud. These are called infrastructure providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine. You can run the cloud foundry even on-premises computers.
Are any other options available to run the cloud foundry?
Yes, they are called providers. A provider is a company that hosts Cloud Foundry as a service. And bills the client for the resources they use.
The Cloud Foundry website defines its list of certified providers as those who are able to meet the standard, which runs all the core features of Cloud Foundry and adds their own unique value as a host.
Ex:
- IBM Cloud Foundry
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- SAP Cloud Platform
