August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
70 pages
1h 21m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction
“Nobody has ever built cloud-native apps without a platform. They either build one themselves or they use Cloud Foundry.”
Joshua McKenty, Field CTO of Pivotal Cloud Foundry
We live in a world where connecting information to actions via software is the lifeblood of business. To thrive in this world, you need the ability to deliver software quickly, repeatedly, and with regular feedback. Cloud-native platforms are a way of achieving this. However, companies with an established process, organization style, and culture often find it challenging to make the transition to cloud-native platforms.
This book looks at the changes required to become cloud native and explores how Cloud Foundry can help.
Cloud Foundry is a platform for running applications and services. Its purpose is to change the way applications and services are deployed and run by reducing the develop to deployment cycle time. Cloud Foundry directly leverages cloud-based resources so that applications running on the platform can be infrastructure unaware. It provides a contract to run cloud-native applications predictably and reliably.
The platform space is complex. Different offerings have divergent feature sets and value propositions. Comparisons between platform technologies can be difficult. This book aims to cut through the confusion by unpacking the current practices in developing and delivering software quickly and showing how cloud-native platforms are an essential piece of that story. ...
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