What is the difference between Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open source initiative which defines a “Platform as a Service” stack which is independent of any cloud provider. Pivotal has utilized this open source framework and built their own layer of capabilities to the open source version as Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).

What is Pivotal Cloud Foundry PCF?

About PCF. PCF is a cloud native platform for deploying next-generation apps. Based on open source technology, PCF enables enterprises to rapidly deliver new experiences to their customers. PCF can be deployed on-premises and on many cloud providers to give enterprises a hybrid and multi-cloud platform.

What is the use of PCF?

The main purpose of PCF is to provide the underlying infrastructure and environments that organizations need to facilitate continuous delivery of software updates, manage the application life cycle and streamline the development, deployment, and scaling of web-based applications.

What is PCF in AWS?

This new Quick Start automatically deploys Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), a cloud-native platform for deploying and operating modern enterprise applications, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. With PCF on AWS, you can deploy and run your Spring or . NET apps in the cloud, with PCF handling complex operational tasks.

What is PCF integration?

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 …

What is difference between Docker and PCF?

Docker uses Linux as operating system and leverages concepts like Linux namespaces to run multiple applications in sandboxes. Containers are more portable since all you need are Linux Docker environments while for Cloud Foundry packaged applications you have more prerequisites, the Cloud Foundry runtimes and services.