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Cloud Foundry Reviews & Product Details

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances.

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Product Description

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the proven solution for companies seeking software-led, digital transformation.

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Manoj M.

Creative Services - Senior Associate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/11/2022

"Efficient Cloud Apps Manager"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

Easier deployment of applications in cloud. Health status of applications across various environments can be viewed in one place.

Container management policy configuration is straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

In web application of pivotal cloud foundry, Auto refresh is not configurable. Manual refresh each time consumes effort. Log tailing can be made even more exact without time delay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:

Efficient application to manage applications, the health status, application metrics, easier log search and scaling instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems solved are the amount of time saved while deploying applications, with .yml scripts, multiple applications can be deployed on the go on different environments at a time. Scaling of instances can also be defined in the .yml script. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Somesh J.

Senior Software Quality Engineer 1

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/17/2021

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Review Honest Cloud Foundry"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

It's a very effective and efficient tool to work with a cloud native platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

This web service is limited to some stuff right now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/15/2021

"Great for Continuous Delivery"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

The ease of handling external services like database management, messaging etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

I am still new to this and I am yet to identify the quirks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/14/2018

"Easy and most reliable product to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

Easy to use, need not worry about the Infrastructure ,scaling from developer stand point. Automation makes developer life easy and need to worry about the code.

Easy to deploy, scale applications in PCF. Need not worry about the infrastructure related changes like patching,upgrade by the developer these makes developer life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

Nothing in specific , cost for individual contributor should be less. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:

If your looking at PaaS product PCF is a great software to use which easy your issues faced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developing applications in PCF this will have developer not worry about infrastructure related issues.

Scaling of applications is automated, it can scale vertical and horizontal whenever it is needed. Microservices architecture is archived through this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/31/2018

"Great paltform as a service tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

a) easy configuration and setup

b) developer need not to worry about infrastructure. can setup

c) spring boot based micro services

d) provide various services like rabbit mq, redis etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

its great from developer point of view. its little costly in production . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2018

"PCF - Easy introduction to cloud for very simple programs"

2/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

It's fairly easy to get started and deploy a very basic app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

There is not enough documentation for specific cases and the tool does not have enough automatic adaptability for more complicated programs. It requires too much manual configuration and re-coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:

I would recommend AWS first. If this is not an option, then PCF is a reasonable replacement for very simple applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are deploying a java webapp to the cloud. There aren't any benefits that PCF provides over AWS, except that the federal agency we are working with approves PCF. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/5/2018

"PCF"

4/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

Can navigate easily. Clean. Simple. Up to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

Viewing logs is difficult. They can be cut off if they are many of them and there needs to be a more efficient way to view all logs. Can take awhile to load screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/23/2018

"Pivotal cloud Foundry"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

Best suited for hybrid cloud implementations. We are currently using it for on-prem and AWS cloud deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

There is a huge learning curve associated with Cloud Foundry itself not specific to Pivotal cloud foundry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharadwaj (Brad) C.

Director Of Engineering/Head of Reliability Engineering

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/12/2016

"New User and Loving It"

4/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

1. Ease of use

2. Supports wide range of technologies

3. Deployment flexibility based on your needs

4. Perfect tool to be part of your CI pipeline and Agile methodology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

1. Heard initial setup was a pain

2. Expensive; would prefer a free version for small subset of features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:

If you are moving towards Continuous Improvement/Deployment and planning to have a PaaS service, then CF is the way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reducing overhead and red-tape by moving to CF, and keep up with the DevOps world of faster deployments and test & learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris C.

Founder and Managing Partner

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/25/2015

"Most mature PaaS available"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?

Mature supporting technologies on which the product is built

Very easy to instantiate applications as long as a proper buildpack exists

Consistent app deployment across public and private infrastructure

Extensive community of developers

Integration with CI/D development tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?

Technology lock-in...CF (Pivotal) is largely determining the components you must use in the PaaS

Looking to see how a dev workflow using Docker will integrated (i.e., artifact == code or container?)

Steep learning curve for on-prem deployment

Resource intensive (requires 12 VMs or instances to get running, more for multiple AZs) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an organization Nebulaworks started working with the CF bits in late '13. We help people make a transition to DevOps, and CF is one tool which we use to accomplish these initiatives. While CF is an interesting concept, it may not be a fit for all organizations who are looking to move to distributed application development and delivery. We recommend taking a strong look at other PaaS offerings which are integrating natively with a Docker workflow, including Deis, and the upcoming v3 release of OpenShift, or building the tooling with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes and/or Mesos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.