--- title: Cloud Foundry Reviews meta_title: 'Cloud Foundry Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 18 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cloud Foundry works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 18 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Cloud Foundry Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-platform-as-a-service-paas) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Cloud Foundry 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. ## Cloud Foundry Reviews ### 1. Efficient Cloud Apps Manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manoj M. | Creative Services - Senior Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2022 **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. **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. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** Efficient application to manage applications, the health status, application metrics, easier log search and scaling instances. **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. ### 2. Review Honest Cloud Foundry **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Somesh J. | Senior Software Quality Engineer 1, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** It's a very effective and efficient tool to work with a cloud native platform **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** This web service is limited to some stuff right now **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** None as of now ### 3. Great for Continuous Delivery **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** The ease of handling external services like database management, messaging etc **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** I am still new to this and I am yet to identify the quirks **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database management Its easier ### 4. PCF **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Can navigate easily. Clean. Simple. Up to date. **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. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving mainframe functionality to micro services. Cheaper and faster solution that’s newer and more widely adapted. ### 5. Pivotal cloud Foundry **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **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. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** There is a huge learning curve associated with Cloud Foundry itself not specific to Pivotal cloud foundry. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auto scaling and cross cloud deployment functionality. ### 6. New User and Loving It **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharadwaj (Brad) C. | Director Of Engineering/Head of Reliability Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2016 **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 **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 **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. **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 ### 7. Most mature PaaS available **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris C. | Founder and Managing Partner, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2015 **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 **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) **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. ### 8. Very flexible PaaS solution; the sky is the limit! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** - Cloud Foundry is proven technology (Pivotal Web Services offers it hosted). - The source code is open source on Github. - Cloud Foundry operates independent of the IaaS/Infrastructure, so you can either set it up in the Cloud (IaaS) or on your own hardware. - The Buildpacks offer unlimited options in terms of what to host there, and it is really easy to write them and/or extend them. - Service Brokers are very easy to write. - The command line utilities make pushing an application really easy (for the Developers). **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** - Installation on own infrastructure (with BOSH) is kinda hard to debug if it doesn't work. - The custom installation is very bare minimum (no admin dashboard or user dashboard at all). - Not many people seem to do custom installations yet, there is not much support or information available issues. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** - Learn about BOSH/Terraform before trying to do a custom setup/installation. - Play around with Pivotal Web Services first, to find out if Cloud Foundry offers what you want. - Look through Github issues and/or Cloud Foundry mailing lists if you have issues (and make sure to contribute there if you fix them). - If you don't want to test it on your own infrastructure right away, try it on an IaaS provider first (such as Amazon Web Services). **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are looking to see if switching the infrastructure to a PaaS solution such as Cloud Foundry would benefit us. ### 9. A developers dream **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** I really like the ease of use that comes with using Cloud Foundry. No more tickets to a helpdesk and no more waiting. You can get what ever you need at once. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** It took them a while to complete the transition from VMware to Pivotal, and the open source support during that time was abysmal. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting engineers the resources they need to develop application without being stuck waiting for operations to set things up. Cut down time it takes to get a new project started. ## Cloud Foundry Discussions - [Is Pivotal Cloud Foundry free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-pivotal-cloud-foundry-free) - [Is Pivotal Cloud Foundry dead?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-pivotal-cloud-foundry-dead) - [What does Pivotal Cloud Foundry do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-pivotal-cloud-foundry-do) - [View Cloud Foundry pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/broadcom-cloud-foundry/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-09+15%3A52%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=09be15d9-1cb5-4881-8ea6-db9132d19a44&secure%5Btoken%5D=235747d90e61858bda8b1392a124c179c1c366050d614ace354e9e3af1092788&format=llm_user) ## Cloud Foundry Features **Functionality** - Deployment-Ready Staging - Integration - Extensible **Functionality** - Third-Party Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Development** - Application Deployment - Custom Development - Development Environment - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Testing - Integrated Development Environment - Collaboration Tools - Social Media Integration - Agile Methodologies - Software Development **Management** - Processes and Workflow - Reporting - Automation **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Database** - Database Management - Analytics - Auto Scaling - Backup / Recovery - Storage - Project Management - Email Management - Design Management - Lifecycle Management - Deployment Management - Workflow Management - Application Management - Purchase Order Management - HR Management - User Management **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Continuous Delivery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Additional Functionality** - Continuous Deployment - Source-Code Scanning - Continuous Delivery - Prioritization - Generative AI - Compliance Management - Data Import/Export - Access Controls/Permissions - Bug Tracking - Reporting/Analytics - For Developers - Issue Management - Repository Management - Workflow Management - Monitoring - Pipeline Management - Application Management - API - AI Copilot - Configuration Management - Data Storage Management - Multi-User Collaboration - Project Management - Version Control - Activity Dashboard - Data Synchronization - Lifecycle Management - Change Management - Status Tracking - Authentication - Alerts/Notifications - Automated Testing - Debugging - Approval Process Control - Build Log - Quality Assurance **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security - Activity Tracking **Additional Functionality** - Access Controls/Permissions - Customizable Forms - Monitoring - Customizable Templates - Cloud Computing - Generative AI - Version Control - Customizable Reports - Approval Process Control - Real-Time Reporting - Web Forms - Inventory Tracking - ERP integration - CRM - Customizable Fields - Data Connectors - Third-Party Integrations - Active Directory Integration - Graphical User Interface - Real-Time Data - For Developers - Reporting & Statistics - Single Sign On - Mobile Access - Accounting Integration - Drag & Drop - AI Copilot - API - Configurable Workflow - Activity Dashboard - Projections ## Top Cloud Foundry Alternatives - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews) - [Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (290 reviews) - [Jenkins](https://www.g2.com/products/jenkins/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (560 reviews)