Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software

Cloud Foundry

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Cloud Foundry is an open-source application platform for building, testing, deploying, and scaling cloud-native apps across a choice of clouds, frameworks, and languages.

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Facts

Website: cloudfoundry.org
Price: Free tier
Free trial: Yes
Authentication: Cloud Foundry UAA supports OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM, with single sign-on and user and group management features.
Buildpacks: Cloud Foundry supports developer frameworks out of the box and can be extended with community buildpacks.
CLI operating systems: The cf CLI installation documentation covers Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Company: The Cloud Foundry Foundation is a directed fund of the Linux Foundation that supports development, promotion, and adoption of Cloud Foundry.
Deployment: Developers can deploy apps with a single `cf push` command.
Deployment workflow: The site says developers can push code to a running app with a single `cf push` command.
Development tools: Cloud Foundry says it integrates with developer environments and tools, including CI/CD and IDEs.
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Identity: UAA provides OAuth2-based identity and access, and supports external LDAP and SAML user stores.
Intended users: The Foundation describes Cloud Foundry as serving developers, operators, and providers, and says its community targets companies of all sizes.
Kubernetes: Cloud Foundry is described as supporting applications on Kubernetes clusters, and Korifi can install a Cloud Foundry instance on Kubernetes.

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