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Cloud Foundry is an open-source platform as a service (PaaS) that provides you with a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services.

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Cloud Foundry concepts

Understand how Cloud Foundry works.

Cloud Foundry overview
Cloud Foundry Runtime components
Diego components and architecture
How Diego balances app processes in Cloud Foundry
Staging your apps in Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry app SSH components and processes

App Security Groups in Cloud Foundry
High availability in Cloud Foundry
Orgs, spaces, roles, and permissions in Cloud Foundry
Managing roles
Planning orgs and spaces in Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry security
Container security in Cloud Foundry
Container-to-container networking
HTTP routing

Cloud Foundry CLI

Direct a CF deployment from your local command line.

Installing the cf CLI
Upgrading to cf CLI v8
Getting started with the cf CLI
Using the cf CLI with a proxy server
Using the cf CLI with a self-signed certificate
Using cf CLI plug-ins
Developing cf CLI plug-ins

Deploy Cloud Foundry

Deploy Cloud Foundry on different infrastructures.

Overview of deploying Cloud Foundry
Setting up DNS for your environment

Deploying Cloud Foundry with cf-deployment
Deploying BOSH on AWS
Deploying BOSH on GCP
Deploying Cloud Foundry

Configuring your Cloud Foundry for BOSH Backup and Restore
Backup and restore for external blobstores
Cloud Controller blobstore configuration
cf-release end of life

Administering Cloud Foundry

A guide for admins.

Stopping and starting virtual machines
Creating and modifying quota plans
Using feature flags
Examining GrootFS disk usage
Using metadata
Managing custom buildpacks
Using Docker in Cloud Foundry

Creating and managing users with the cf CLI
Creating and managing users with the UAA CLI (UAAC)
Get started with the Notifications Service

Enabling IPv6 for hosted apps
Distributed tracing
Enabling Zipkin tracing
Enabling W3C tracing
Supporting WebSockets
Configuring load balancer health checks for CF routers
Troubleshooting slow requests
Troubleshooting router error responses
Securing incoming traffic
Configuring trusted system certificates for apps
Bulletin Board System data store encryption
Enabling and configuring TCP routing
Configuring HTTP/2 support

Managing isolation segments
Routing for isolation segments

Delayed jobs in Cloud Foundry
Configuring delayed job priorities with Cloud Controller

Managing apps and their stacks
Using Stack Auditor
Managing stack lifecycle
Changing stacks
Restaging your apps on a Windows stack

Running and Troubleshooting Cloud Foundry

A guide for operators.

Cloud Foundry logging
Configuring system logging
Configuring Diego for upgrades
Audit Events
UAA audit requirements
Usage events and billing
Configuring SSH access for Cloud Foundry
Configuring Diego Cell disk cleanup scheduling
Configuring Health Monitor Notifications
Adding a custom stack
Monitoring and testing Diego components
Troubleshooting Cloud Foundry
UAA performance
UAA performance metrics
Scaling Cloud Controller
Cloud Controller Multi-Process Mode (Puma)
Scaling Cloud Controller (cf-for-k8s)

Logging and metrics in Cloud Foundry

Aggregate and stream logs and metrics from Cloud Foundry.

Logging and metrics architecture
Loggregator guide for Cloud Foundry operators
App logging in Cloud Foundry
Security event logging
Limiting your app log rate in Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry component metrics
Container metrics
Logging and metrics in Cloud Foundry
Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector
Deploying a nozzle to your Cloud Foundry Loggregator Firehose
Installing the Loggregator plug-in for cf CLI

BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR)

Back up and restore Cloud Foundry deployments.

BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR)
Installing BBR
Release notes for BBR
Backing up with BBR
Restoring with BBR
BBR logging
Advanced features
BBR developer’s guide

Developing and managing apps

Develop, run, and track apps in the cloud.

Designing and running your app in the cloud
Pushing your app using Cloud Foundry CLI (cf push)
Deploying with app manifests
App manifest attribute reference
Deploying your large apps
Configuring app deployments
Deploying an app with Docker
The app container lifecycle on Diego architecture
Starting, restarting, and restaging apps
Pushing an app with multiple processes
Running cf push sub-step commands
Pushing apps with sidecar processes
Using Cloud Foundry health checks
Scaling your app using Cloud Foundry CLI (cf scale)
Running tasks in your apps
Configuring routes and domains
Configuring per-route options
Hash-Based Routing
Configuring CF to route traffic to apps on custom ports
Routing HTTP/2 and gRPC traffic to apps
Troubleshooting TCP routing

Cloud Foundry environment variables
Using blue-green deployment to reduce downtime
App logging in Cloud Foundry
Troubleshooting app deployment and health
Configuring SSH access for your deployment
Accessing your apps with SSH
Accessing services with SSH
Retrieving app and event information
Cloud Foundry API app revisions
Integrating service instances with apps
Managing services
Delivering service credentials to an app
Managing service instances
Sharing service instances
Managing service keys
User-provided service instances
Manage app requests with route services

Configuring Play Framework service connections
Streaming app logs to log management services
Streaming app logs to third-party services
Streaming app logs to Splunk
Streaming app logs with Fluentd
Streaming app logs to Azure OMS log analytics
Using an external file system (volume services)
Using metrics with drain logs

Cloud Foundry Buildpacks

Package the languages and libraries that support your apps.

Cloud Native Buildpacks

Paketo Buildpacks

Classic Buildpacks

How buildpacks work
Custom buildpacks
Packaging dependencies for offline buildpacks
Configuring a production server
Merging from upstream buildpacks
Upgrading dependency versions
Releasing a new buildpack version
Java
Java buildpack
Tips for Java developers
Grails
Ratpack
Spring
Configure service connections
Using Java Native Image buildpack
Cloud Foundry Java Client Library
Node.js
Node.js Buildpack
Tips for Node.js apps
Environment variables defined by the Node buildpack
Configure service connections for Node.js
Ruby
Ruby buildpack
Getting started deploying Ruby apps
Getting started deploying Ruby on Rails apps
Deploy a sample Ruby on Rails app
Configure Rake tasks for deployed apps
Tips for Ruby developers
Environment variables defined by the Ruby buildpack
Configure service connections for Ruby
Support for Windows Gemfiles
Other buildpacks
Go
NGINX
.NET
PHP
Python
Staticfile (for HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Binary (for binary web servers)

Creating Managed Services in Cloud Foundry

Create and publish free or metered services for Cloud Foundry apps.

Services in Cloud Foundry
Open Service Broker API
Platform profiles
Catalog metadata
Volume services
Release Notes
Managing service brokers in Cloud Foundry
Managing access to service plans
Dashboard Single Sign-on
Service instance sharing in Cloud Foundry

Service Broker examples
App log streaming in Cloud Foundry
Offering Route Services in Cloud Foundry
Supporting multiple CF instances

Binding credentials in Cloud Foundry
CredHub
Setting up and deploying CredHub with BOSH
Configuring a hardware security module
Using a key management service with CredHub
CredHub credential types
Backing up and restoring CredHub instances
Troubleshooting CredHub

User Account and Authentication

UAA Overview
UAA Concepts
Identity Providers in UAA
UAA Metrics
Deploy UAA

API Reference


UAA API
Available Cloud Controller API client libraries
Rate limit information returned by the Cloud Controller API
CAPI V2
CAPI V3
CredHub API documentation

Cloud Foundry Tutorials


What is Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry for Developers
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