Cloud Foundry Components Overview

Are you new to Cloud Foundry (CF) or want to know what it is? We take a look into the Cloud Foundry components to get a broad overview of the PaaS solution.

Cloud Foundry (CF) falls into the PaaS (platform as a service) category. It is an open-source and multi-cloud solution initially released in 2011. CF is governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a non-profit organization. CF supports the full application lifecycle from development over testing to deployment and can also be seen as a kind of continuous delivery solution. Compared to containerization technologies like Docker, CF is designed on a higher level of abstraction. This allows, for example, effortless vertical and horizontal scaling of applications. It can be hosted on private hardware or, by using a provider compatible with the BOSH CPI (Cloud Provider Interface), on IaaS (infrastructure as a service) products like the AWS (Amazon Web Services) or the GCP (Google Cloud Platform) for instance. Sometimes, CF is confused with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, which is merely a commercial implementation by Pivotal.

Video Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Overview
01:05 - Router
02:13 - OAuth2 Server
03:18 - Cloud Controller
03:49 - nysnc
04:34 - Diego Brain
04:55 - Cell Reps
05:22 - Blob Store
06:20 - Diego Cell
06:51 - Garden
07:21 - Service Brokers
08:01 - BBS
08:29 - Consul
08:52 - NATS
09:31 - Metrics Collector
09:50 - Log Aggregator
10:02 - Outro

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