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What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an opinionated application platform that brings efficiency, security, and speed to software development organizations. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications, providing a choice of the underlying infrastructure (including Kubernetes), developer frameworks, and application services. In addition, operational aspects of the platform are standardized and automated, freeing operators to focus on higher-value tasks while still providing developers with a secure self-service experience.

Capabilities

As highlighted in the last section, Cloud Foundry allows your organization to focus on the applications, not the platform. It removes the cost and complexity associated with configuring, managing, and securing infrastructure for your applications.

Projects and Distributions

Cloud Foundry is a large, open-source project. The source code is available on GitHub. There are a few different organizations:

• https://github.com/cloudfoundry: Core Cloud Foundry projects and components include all source code and documentation.
• https://github.com/paketo-buildpacks: A collection of Cloud Native Buildpacks designed for Cloud Foundry and/or Kubernetes.
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry-tutorials: The organization that houses this and other tutorials.

Cloud Foundry is a large project with many different components and projects. From these projects, there are many interoperable distributions available for end-users. While these distributions may differ in approach and alterations, they all support the same common core, ensuring interoperability across all Cloud Foundry distributions.

Contributors and Members

Cloud Foundry is a rapidly evolving and growing ecosystem. It is no surprise that some of the largest companies and best minds in the world are actively driving the technology forward.

Engaging

You don’t have to be a contributor or member to be part of the community (though you certainly can be!). The Cloud Foundry community is a vibrant, worldwide group driven by collaboration, inclusivity, compassion, transparency, and curiosity. We hold a collective vision for an ethical, people-first technology community, and future.