May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
324 pages
8h 14m
English
Content preview from Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide
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Chapter 1. The Cloud-Native Platform
Cloud Foundry is a platform for running applications, tasks, and services. Its purpose is to change the way applications, tasks, and services are deployed and run by significantly reducing the develop-to-deployment cycle time.
As a cloud-native platform, Cloud Foundry directly uses cloud-based infrastructure so that applications running on the platform can be infrastructure unaware. Cloud Foundry provides a contract between itself and your cloud-native apps to run them predictably and reliably, even in the face of unreliable infrastructure.
If you need a brief summary of the benefits of the Cloud Foundry platform, this chapter is for you. Otherwise, feel free to jump ahead to Chapter 2.
Why You Need a Cloud-Native Platform
To understand the business reasons for using Cloud Foundry, I suggest that you begin by reading Cloud Foundry: The Cloud-Native Platform, which discusses the value of Cloud Foundry and explores its overall purpose from a business perspective.
Cloud Foundry is an “opinionated” (more on this later in the chapter), structured platform that imposes a strict contract between the following:
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The infrastructure layer underpinning it
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The applications and services it supports
Cloud-native platforms do far more than provide developers self-service resources through abstracting infrastructure. Chapter 2 discusses at length their inbuilt features, such as resiliency, log aggregation, user management, and security. Figure 1-1
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