Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that empowers companies to build, deploy, run and scale applications on their existing cloud infrastructure. It supports Python, Java, Node.js, PHP, Go and Ruby, and allows developers to code in multiple languages and frameworks.
Based on Pivotal’s experience with corporate customers, 20% to 30% of existing applications can run on Pivotal Cloud Foundry with little change, according to a source close to the company.
In this document, we will cover the following points:
- What is Cloud Foundry?
- Cloud computing stack
- Why PaaS is more popular
- Cloud Foundry users
- Technical and business benefits
- Softweb’s offerings
- Microservices and its benefits
