Cloud Foundry

A Cloud Native Platform for people who want to get stuff done.

CF 101

what problems does it solve?

managing operating systems sucks.
managing runtimes sucks
managing deployment of dependencies sucks
managing application isolation sucks
managing deployment tasks sucks

Process for deploying/scaling app on EC2 / EHC / etc

Deploy VM (the easy part - handled by IaaS...CMDB?)
Secure VM (or write some puppet)
Install runtime (with what? rpm? tarball?)
install dependencies (or write some scripts)
Install application (tarball? RPM? git?)
Start application (how? job engine? keep it running?)
Modify load balancer (how?)
Modify firewall (how?)
Add health checks (to where? http? tcp? )

Components:

Router
UAA
Cloud Controller / Health Manager
Elastic Runtime / Diego
Blob Store
Services
Doppler / Loggregator

#Let's Try It

(you have cf cli installed, right)?

Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/mcowger/hello-python.git
Login to cf: cf login
- target api.run.pivotal.io
- This is Pivotal Web Services
Move into the directory:
- cd hello-python
- cd version2
- cf push cf-hellopython-lastname

Things that just happened:

Deploy Container
Install runtime
install dependencies
Install application
Start application
Modify load balancer
Modify firewall
Add health checks