Pivotal Cloud Foundry Reviews

a) easy configuration and setup

b) developer need not to worry about infrastructure. can setup

c) spring boot based micro services

d) provide various services like rabbit mq, redis etc.

its great from developer point of view. its little costly in production .

I use PCF to build healthcare based applications. java micro services are deployed.

Easy to use, need not worry about the Infrastructure ,scaling from developer stand point. Automation makes developer life easy and need to worry about the code.

Easy to deploy, scale applications in PCF. Need not worry about the infrastructure related changes like patching,upgrade by the developer these makes developer life easier.

Nothing in specific , cost for individual contributor should be less.

If your looking at PaaS product PCF is a great software to use which easy your issues faced

Developing applications in PCF this will have developer not worry about infrastructure related issues.

Scaling of applications is automated, it can scale vertical and horizontal whenever it is needed. Microservices architecture is archived through this.

Developer's independence to develop microservice applications in any language and framework

Relatively easy to create custom buildpacks and services.

Support for vSphere and Openstack

Applications are portable without any changes in both private cloud foundry and public such PWS.

There should be a easier way to create and maintain BOSH deployment manifest file.

Limited/no training avaiable to learn how to install and configure open source cloud foundry in large scale.

But documentation is pretty good.

Take to slow. Deploy new / non critical applications first. then apply lessons learn in migrating existing monolithic applications

Zero downtime blue/green deployments will be a huge benefit.

Easy to scale up and down based on application load.

Play around with Pivotal Web Services first, to find out Cloud is compatible for any Applications.

Running Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere, ability to deploy a standardized platform as a service across private and semi public cloud. Gives greater,

Development teams are much more empowered with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Application environments are deployed in minutes freeing development to focus more...

Audit was built properly

poor Backups and Restore

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Very easy to use

Has many features

Easy to deploy applications

Little code change is needed

Supports many different languages

Has good security and org structure

Lack of support for JNDI

Need to have better documentation

Consider trying public cloud foundry first before thinking about private one

Able to perform proofs of concepts for our mobile applicaton

Elastic Runtime runs applications in packages called "droplets".

Wide assortment of languages, Web frameworks, and databases available and supported.

Easy and fast self-service deployment for developers and cloud operators.

Application container, service, and node health are all monitored and automatically restarted if not in the expected state.

Big data and mobile services are supported in the PaaS.

Can deploy from the command line, Eclipse, Spring Tools Suite, Maven, and Gradle.

Cloud Foundry, free open source; Pivotal Web Services.

It show unmistakable signs of the politicians inhabiting the standards functions of its primary members: EMC, HP, IBM, Pivotal, Rackspace, SAP, and VMware.

Any programs the foundation conceives will need to satisfy the trademark license offered by its owner. Activities that appear to detract from those plans will be vetoed.

I am using it for learning purpose.

Easy to implement PaaS and pivotal is partnered with CF, which increased the visibility of their products to build the applications without hassle.

To my knowledge CF is highly used when compared to AWS and Azure,

- CI and CDD

- To Market products faster

Cloud Foundry has a number features that make it a great fit for teams that are looking to get out of the VM provisioning business and focus on delivering business functionality faster. The REST interface to the Cloud Controller is a great productivity enhancer. The concept of buildpacks, and the ability to extend them, is a another great feature of the product.

Cloud Foundry is too sensitive to changes in the underlying IaaS, which can make the system unstable and sometimes require a total reinstall.

Don't make this just a technology buy. Make sure to understand your CI/CD strategy as well.

Helping customers realize their Continuous Delivery goals. One benefit that was realized was the ability to build compelling dashboards on top of the Cloud Controller API.

Can navigate easily. Clean. Simple. Up to date.

Viewing logs is difficult. They can be cut off if they are many of them and there needs to be a more efficient way to view all logs. Can take awhile to load screens.

Moving mainframe functionality to micro services. Cheaper and faster solution that’s newer and more widely adapted.

1. Ease of use

2. Supports wide range of technologies

3. Deployment flexibility based on your needs

4. Perfect tool to be part of your CI pipeline and Agile methodology

1. Heard initial setup was a pain

2. Expensive; would prefer a free version for small subset of features

If you are moving towards Continuous Improvement/Deployment and planning to have a PaaS service, then CF is the way to go.

Reducing overhead and red-tape by moving to CF, and keep up with the DevOps world of faster deployments and test & learn