Cloud Foundry for Developers

Design, build, release, and run

This principle describes the concept that each phase should be executed as isolated independent steps. In the 15 principles, this was broadened to include an initial design phase. This clarified the need for defining the dependencies needed for the application. In essence, the design phase declares the dependencies. The build phase pulls together the dependencies to produce a build artifact with a build number. The release phase combines the build artifact with application or environment specific configurations, and tags the output with some versioning for tracking/audit purposes and finally, the run phase defines the process of launching and running the application. The run phase is usually the responsibility ...