How does PCF cloud work?

The Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller runs the applications and other processes on the cloud’s VMs to manage app lifecycles and balance demand. The router directs incoming traffic to the VMs that run the apps that are in demand, usually working with a customer-provided load balancer.

What does PCF stand for in Cloud Foundry?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry
This solution introduces Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and the benefits of running PCF on Google Cloud, such as: Rapid VM provisioning for scaling the platform to help meet your developer and user needs.

Why do we need Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open application Platform as a Service (PaaS) developed under an open source license. Using Cloud Foundry (or a PaaS in general) developers are able to deploy and operate applications by themselves without knowing how to setup a webserver, a database, a load balancer, etc.

What does PCF mean?

PCF

What is PCF developer?

PCF Dev is a new distribution of Cloud Foundry designed to run on a developer’s laptop or workstation. PCF Dev is intended for application developers who wish to develop and debug their application locally on a full-featured Cloud Foundry.

What is PCF in Java?

The pcf-java-client project is a Java language binding for interacting with a Pivotal Cloud Foundry instance. Most of the Cloud Foundry API can be accessed with the cf-java-client project, and this is an extension of that project for Pivotal Cloud Foundry-specific APIs.

What are PCF services?

Cloud Foundry Service Brokers and PCF Tiles briefly describes the two main elements of PCF service integration: the service broker API, which connects the service to PCF internally by taking commands from the Cloud Controller; and the tile, a packaged interface that cloud operators use to install and configure a …