Cloud Foundry Concepts

Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. It is an open source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.

This guide presents an overview of how Cloud Foundry works, a discussion of key concepts, and a glossary of terms. Refer to this guide to learn more about Cloud Foundry fundamentals.

Table of Contents

• Overview

• Cloud Foundry Components

• How Applications are Staged

• Zero Downtime Deployment and Scaling in CF

• Orgs, Spaces, Roles, and Permissions

• Cloud Foundry Security

• Diego Architecture

• Diego Components

• How Diego Allocates Work

• Stacks

• Using Docker in Cloud Foundry

• Glossary