--- title: Cloud Foundry Reviews meta_title: 'Cloud Foundry Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 19 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: 19 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-05-05' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Cloud Foundry Reviews **Vendor:** Cloud Foundry **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:** 19 ## About Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry: Industry's Open Platform As A Service. Deploy and scale applications in seconds, without locking yourself into a single cloud. ## Cloud Foundry Reviews ### 1. Simple Scalable Containerized Applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** CloudFoundry is easy to learn and use; the learning curve was minimal, and I was able to host and run applications within minutes. Hosting microservices and simple websites is a breeze, and the supported technologies in containers are reasonably broad. Scale your implementation with a few clicks, manage environment variables outside of the code, and do blue-green deployments to minimize (or even eliminate) downtime on application deployments. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Troubleshooting larger application deployments is sometimes tricky if you rely on console logs for application logging; I would recommend piping logs to a secondary log source for parsing when operating at an enterprise scale. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** Consider CloudFoundry as the first step for development teams who haven't developed in a containerized environment previously. Stateless microservices, static content, and simple websites are great candidates. Be wary that more complex deployments, such as those requiring advanced state management or complex transformation processing, may require advanced container orchestration knowledge or re-architecture. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** CloudFoundry is a significant enabler for cloud migration and containerized development, helping developers to be more productive by shifting focus from building an entire application hosting stack to primarily building business functionality. Working with a manifest-based container recipe makes it is easy to move your application from one environment to another, with build-packs providing a simplified hosting footprint. ### 2. Stable And Seamless Platform For New Application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umair A. | Senior Solution Architect , Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Seamless deployment of application on the cloudfoundry and its available in next seconds. Its blue green deployment works seamlessly in context of continuous deployment (CI/CD). Its provided different integration connector helps developer to integrate quickly with other systems e.g: Jenkins via webhook. Its platform as a service is also makes developer life easier to quick setup of account and deploy application instead of managing underlying setup. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Its provided Buildpacks does not supports every technologies such as JAVA EE (Jakarta EE) instead of that developer must have to create its own buildpack or just utlize plain JAVA to create webservices which is difficult to modernize the application code. There should be atleast an view for underline system operations for monitoring or evaluation of performance which is totally missing at the time. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** If you want to do quick deployment without any infrastructure setup and if you have small development team then CloudFoundry Platform as a Service is the best and right choice to go. Its easy to learn and simple to implement. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the last months we experienced cloud foundry as an PAAS solution to our organization and gained many features out of the box such as managing application deployments, no low level configurations needed, auto load balancing etc. on the otherside there was also challanges for our legacy applications due to buildpacks provided by CF. ### 3. Easier tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raul I. | program developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud Foundry works very well both in a hosted or local solution and in multiple environments. We can integrate backup services through BOSH and the way developers can interact with their own deployment CF CLI. Cloud Foundry offers a wide range of application services, offering a variety of clouds. Cloud Foundry is well integrated into the SAP cloud platform. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** The application troubleshooting tools need some improvements. Debugging, console, ssh, etc. 2 Limited training available to learn how to install and configure large-scale open-source cloud foundry. Limited training available to learn to install and configure large-scale open-source cloud foundry. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** Mailing lists are a good resource, PaaS based on Docker is excellent if you need something small and simple, beyond a couple of teams. CF offers great value. The decision is based on cost, the number of applications, the size of the team, etc. You must be prepared to install a large number of elements throughout the day on many virtual machines. It is easy to scale them up and down according to the application's load. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** The critical business problem is to be able to continuously and frequently improve software applications to reflect changes or the changing needs of customers. We wanted more than the widely used PaaS solutions, Azure DevOps: developers can automate everything to achieve a distributed continuous delivery system: implemented as microservices. A distributed team, with different release cycles compatible with different programming languages. Rapid iteration of development and quick deployment on multiple platforms. ### 4. Stable And Seamless Platform For New Application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umair A. | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Seamless deployment of application on the cloudfoundry and its available in next seconds. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Buildpacks does not supports every technologies such as JAVA EE (Jakarta EE) **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** Seamless deployment of application on the cloudfoundry and its available in next seconds would give to opportunity to go on cloud fast. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the last months we experienced cloud foundry as an PAAS solution to our organization and gained many features out of the box such as managing application deployments, no low level configurations needed, auto load balancing etc. on the otherside there was also challanges for our legacy applications due to buildpacks provided by CF. ### 5. best open source for enterprise **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinay v. | Software Engineer, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud foundry is easy to use and has lot of documentations in internet to refer. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud foundry has very less market place services. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using physical servers where deployment and applicaotn scaling was difficult. Now CF made it easier ### 6. streamlined Application Deployment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** I really like the fact that as a developer I don't need to be concerned with server procurement, configuration, nor maintenance. The engineers in our cloud team empower developers by streamlining our deployments on our schedules. With Cloud Foundry, I simply focus on creating application and I'm not bogged down in worrying about infrastructure. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** The documentation isn't as clear or comprehensive as I'd like it to be. I know this is always a challenge and on the more popular build paths, it's better. Also, I wish there was a larger community/user base. I recently had an issue with a less popular buildpack - at least in our organization. I found the information I needed eventually, but what was on the Cloud Foundry website could have been clearer. Had there been more examples in this particular case, or had someone else posted something on the net about what I was trying to do, I would have been able to get up and running faster. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** If you're looking for a PaaS solution for enabling your developers to easily deploy their applications, and maximize your system administration efforts, make sure to consider Cloud Foundry. From a developer's point of view it allows me to be more effective because I can spend less time messing about with infrastructure and more time producing software. I believe it would also improve the efficiency of your system administration staff. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Cloud Foundry to empower development teams to deploy to our cloud. Cloud Foundry not only enable us to deploy software, but it provides us flexibility in what languages and tooling we use. ### 7. Developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud Foundry is well integrated in SAP Cloud Platform Cockpit **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud Foundry, even if well integrated in SAP Cloud Platform, is not so easy to use it **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Cloud Foundry in in trial mode in SAP Cloud Platform ### 8. I am a contributor and user **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Simplicity - quite easy to get started with for web applications Flexibility - Fits extremely well into an agile software dev process of frequent releases. Deployments can be easily automated with CI/CD systems. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** No free options like Heroku for tinkering around. Setting up CF as an operator is not trivial **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** PaaS drastically improves software development and deployment. You should figure out which PaaS makes sense for you and your needs - one that is running on the public cloud and self serve ( Heroku/ AWS ) or an on prem/hybrid solution ( CF ). The decision is based on cost, # of apps, team size, etc. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** The critical business problem is being able to continuously and frequently improve software applications to reflect changing/evolving customer needs. Cloud Foundry makes deployment a zero day effort and reduces the bus factor which occur in snow flake deployments. ### 9. Cloud Foundry a great way to find PaaS bliss **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud Foundry is a true PaaS. I consider a true PaaS as a platform that allows for full management of an application as opposed to some VM pattern provisioning solutions. An application in CF can be deleted, renamed, updated, rerouted, etc. I also like the IaaS agnostic ness of CF. We have deployments using vSphere for our in house data center as well as AWS and will probably have a deployment in Azure in the future. It is great when you have a platform that can move with the needs of an organization. Cloud Foundry is open source. Allowing for more extensibility options when necessary and very important for debugging. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Docker support is taking a long time to develop. Request Routing and Layer 4 Routing could use some work though those features are coming and improving. Application problem diagnostic tools need some improvement (Debugging, console, ssh, etc). The platform has good logging but not much beyond that. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** If looking for a PaaS you cannot go wrong with Cloud Foundry. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development teams are much more empowered with Cloud Foundry. Application environments are deployed in minutes freeing development to focus more of features than infrastructure. Flexibility in deployment is also very powerful for production problem debugging. ### 10. CloudFoundry for microservices in a greenfield project developed by a distributed team **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johannes B. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Automation capabilities zero downtime deployments configuration capabilities together with spring cloud less system maintainance Scalability support **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Hard to achieve reproducible builds (will change in future versions is cf) Deep understanding of cf in case of emergency **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** We achieved Continous Deployments of different stages from day one. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** DevOps - Developers can automate everything to achieve Continuous Delivery Distributed System - implemented as microservices (we are a distributed team, with different release cycles) support of different programming languages ### 11. PaaS with no limitations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud Foundry offers a broad range of application services provides a choice of clouds. It has been adopted by some of the thought leaders across the world. With its broad vision and fast development, it can be a great platform by choice to the newer companies who want to migrate to cloud. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Cloud Foundry should improve upon the following: 1. Make it more friendly to business users. Currently it is very focused on engineers and some business person looking for a flexible cloud solution may find it tough to understand the deep technical jargon that the website carries. 2. Do more marketing, so that it becomes popular. Very few followers and limited awareness in the field might hurt Cloud Foundry in the long run. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted more than the commoditized PaaS solutions (AWS, Azure). We also wanted rapid development and customization. While we have not fully realized the customization that we wanted, Cloud Foundry has certainly delivered on the other two aspects, namely, rapid development and the more than standard Cloud capabilities in its platform. ### 12. Cloud Foundry **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Ease of use of deploying applications and services using BOSH, great integration with ansible playbook, ability to scale using DEA's and high availability of core Cloud Foundry services to provide high resiliency and redundancy. Cloud Foundry works very well in both a hosted or on-prem solution and working with multiple environments. The release schedule gives a very fast response to bugs or features provided to the open source community. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Ability to assign applications and services to dedicated DEA's to ensure spread across specific hypervisors. Initial set up of manifest files can be time consuming and the automated tools are not production ready **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running Cloud Foundry on Openstack, ability to deploy a standardized platform as a service across both private and public cloud. Gives greater flexibility on scaling applications and providing near 99.9% uptime of applications and services. ### 13. easier tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Ease of use of deploying applications and services, Cloud Foundry works very well in both a hosted or on-prem solution and working with multiple environments. The release schedule gives a very fast response to bugs or features provided to the open source community. This tool will make your life so much easier. for developer the command line utilities make pushing an application really easy **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Limited training avaiable to learn how to install and configure open source cloud foundry in large scale. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** Easy to scale up and down based on application load. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 14. Great, multi tenant PaaS with steep(but quite short) learning curve for admins. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon J. | Platform Engineer, Publishing, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Solid scalable multi tenant PaaS with great deployment stratergy. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Quite complicated to setup initially, requires a lot of HW. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** Mailing lists are good resource, Docker based PaaS is great if you need something small and simple, beyond a couple of teams CF provides great value. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have standardised on a single deployment scenario for all online applications, no more snowflakes, reduced TTM to a few minutes from weeks. Self service. ### 15. [y]aaS is a multi tenant cloud platform which is based on a micro service architecture running on CF **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** François-Yanick B. | Cloud DevOp (PaaS), Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** The way we can integrate backing servies through BOSH and the way developers can interact with their own deployment (CF CLI). **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** The API is often slower then expected. I know the v3 is coming and I hope it will expose more features. It is sometime difficult to reach the proper metrics inside the core at the moment. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** More you use it, more you tune it better and make it THE PaaS of the century! **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** [y]aaS became the frontrunner for SAP’s HCP Industry Cloud powered by Cloud Foundry. ### 16. CloudFoundry for Enterprise **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** The ease of blue-green deploy, very easy to run two different versions and switch over with 0 downtime. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** It requires a lot of VMs to run it, you can't run a small version on 2 or 3 VMs. **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** They need to have a good platform to install on, Amazon or VMWare are the best choices. You need to be prepared to install a lot of items over the course of a whole day on many VMs. Prepare 20+ VMs of decent size if you wish to have a good environment. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast iteration of development and rapid deployment to multiple platforms. ### 17. Overall good performance **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Easy and fast self-service deployment for developers and cloud operators , Wide assortment of languages, Web frameworks, and databases available and supported. **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Limited to applications that run on Ubuntu Linux, unless you use the Uhuru Windows version of Cloud Foundry, which we have not reviewed. **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing much as yet... ### 18. Economy compared to data centers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Technical and coding insights given in meetup and the best place for networking for jobs **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** Very few webinars for people to find who are living very far **Recommendations to others considering Cloud Foundry:** More webinars **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** The major problem is scalability which the cloud found art has helped us solve through virtual machines ### 19. cf on openstack **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about Cloud Foundry?** Easy to configure and get started on an openstack cloud **What do you dislike about Cloud Foundry?** some restrictions and limitations on the choices **What problems is Cloud Foundry solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development environments being handled easier and being homogeneous - [View Cloud Foundry pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cloud-foundry/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-27+21%3A49%3A55+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7c5574bf-cc75-479a-b4f4-f4fb49ba9b51&secure%5Btoken%5D=edd7e6af576430cd5d8074156e32ff6147e78d5ccc93a34aa292b992e452ee80&format=llm_user) ## Cloud Foundry Features **Development** - Application Deployment - Development Tools - Development Environment - Language Support - Testing **Management** - Access Control - Network Isolation - File Isolation **Database** - Database Management - Analytics - Auto Scaling - Backup / Recovery - Storage **Organization** - Packaging - Container Networking - Orchestration **Infrastructure** - Networking - Virtual Machines - Security **Development** - Developer Toolkit - Architecture - Datacenter - Virtualization ## Top Cloud Foundry Alternatives - [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (738 reviews) - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (926 reviews) - [Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-container-service-amazon-ecs/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (249 reviews)