Compare Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes

At a Glance
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Star Rating
(19)4.0 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (60.0% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Not enough data
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Star Rating
(152)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Enterprise (38.4% of reviews)
Information
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
No pricing available
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Cloud Foundry vs Kubernetes

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Cloud Foundry easier to use. However, reviewers felt that Kubernetes was easier to administer and do business with overall. Finally, reviewers felt that the products are equally easy to set up.

  • Reviewers felt that Kubernetes meets the needs of their business better than Cloud Foundry.
  • When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Kubernetes is the preferred option.
  • For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Kubernetes over Cloud Foundry.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
Cloud Foundry
No pricing available
Kubernetes
No pricing available
Free Trial
Cloud Foundry
No trial information available
Kubernetes
No trial information available
Ratings
Meets Requirements
7.9
15
9.2
126
Ease of Use
8.5
14
7.9
134
Ease of Setup
7.4
9
7.4
88
Ease of Admin
7.8
9
8.0
71
Quality of Support
7.6
11
8.5
108
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
8.1
7
8.9
57
Product Direction (% positive)
6.7
14
9.7
122
Features by Category
Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)Hide 13 FeaturesShow 13 Features
8.6
6
Not enough data
Development
9.2
6
Not enough data
8.6
6
Not enough data
8.1
6
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Database
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.9
6
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
8.7
5
Not enough data
Infrastructure
8.3
5
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
9.0
72
Management
Not enough data
8.8
67
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Organization
Not enough data
9.1
65
Not enough data
9.0
69
Not enough data
9.6
70
Development
Not enough data
8.7
54
Not enough data
9.1
68
Not enough data
9.0
54
Not enough data
9.0
57
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes are categorized as Container Management
Unique Categories
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry is categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is categorized as Container Orchestration
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
26.7%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
13.3%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
60.0%
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
28.8%
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
32.9%
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
38.4%
Reviewers' Industry
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry
Computer Software
33.3%
Telecommunications
13.3%
Information Technology and Services
13.3%
Chemicals
13.3%
Research
6.7%
Other
20.0%
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Computer Software
33.3%
Information Technology and Services
21.1%
Telecommunications
9.5%
Financial Services
4.8%
Banking
3.4%
Other
27.9%
Alternatives
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry Alternatives
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
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AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container...
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Beanstalk
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes Alternatives
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Add Red Hat OpenShift
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)
Mirantis
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container...
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Kubernetes Engine
Add Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Discussions
Cloud Foundry
Cloud Foundry Discussions
Monty the Mongoose crying
Cloud Foundry has no discussions with answers
Kubernetes
Kubernetes Discussions
What are the main features of Kubernetes?
1 Comment
Yiorgos [George] A.
YA
- Container orchestration utilising available hardware or VMs, thus decreasing costs - High Availability within a data center / availability zone - Ability...Read more
What does Kubernetes do?
1 Comment
Mohit G.
MG
Container orchestration and container management. You can also configure properties on the basis of which scaling of pods will be done. It makes your...Read more
Monty the Mongoose crying
Kubernetes has no more discussions with answers