Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application platform as a service governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, a 501 organization. The software was originally developed by VMware, transferred to Pivotal Software, who then transferred the software to the Cloud Foundry Foundation upon its inception in 2015. Cloud Foundry Application Runtime can be deployed to many different infrastructure providers, including VMware’s vSphere, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud and others using the Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) capability of the Cloud Foundry BOSH project. Cloud Foundry provides a highly efficient, modern model for cloud native application delivery. Cloud Foundry makes going from code to running apps as easy as a single cf push command. Don’t spend your time writing infrastructure config for Kubernetes and Istio. Stay focused on your code. Cloud Foundry supports the top programming languages and developer frameworks out of the box, and it can be easily extended thanks to the work of the diverse community of buildpack authors. The Cloud Foundry project teams direct strategy, development and quality control of the core components of the Cloud Foundry platform.
