Pivotal Cloud Foundry Reviews & Product Details

- 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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Developer's independence to develop microservice applications in any language and framework. Relatively easy to create custom buildpacks and services. Support for vSphere and Openstack. Applications are portable without any changes in both private cloud foundry and public such as PWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There should be an easier way to create and maintain BOSH deployment manifest file. Limited/no training available to learn how to install and configure open source cloud foundry on a large scale. But documentation is pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud Foundry has a number features that make it a great fit for teams that are looking to get out of the VM provisioning business and focus on delivering business functionality faster. The REST interface to the Cloud Controller is a great productivity enhancer. The concept of buildpacks, and the ability to extend them, is a another great feature of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud Foundry is too sensitive to changes in the underlying IaaS, which can make the system unstable and sometimes require a total reinstall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elastic Runtime runs applications in packages called "droplets". Wide assortment of languages, Web frameworks, and databases available and supported. Easy and fast self-service deployment for developers and cloud operators. Application container, service, and node health are all monitored and automatically restarted if not in the expected state. Big data and mobile services are supported in the PaaS. Can deploy from the command line, Eclipse, Spring Tools Suite, Maven, and Gradle. Cloud Foundry, free open source; Pivotal Web Services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It shows unmistakable signs of the politicians inhabiting the standards functions of its primary members: EMC, HP, IBM, Pivotal, Rackspace, SAP, and VMware. Any programs the foundation conceives will need to satisfy the trademark license offered by its owner. Activities that appear to detract from those plans will be vetoed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It took them a while to complete the transition from VMware to Pivotal, and the open source support during that time was abysmal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Play around with Pivotal Web Services first, to find out Cloud is compatible for any Applications. Running Pivotal Cloud Foundry on vSphere, ability to deploy a standardized platform as a service across private and semi public cloud. Gives greater, Development teams are much more empowered with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Application environments are deployed in minutes freeing development to focus more... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Audit was built properly poor Backups and Restore Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to use

Has many features

Easy to deploy applications

Little code change is needed

Supports many different languages

Has good security and org structure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lack of support for JNDI

Need to have better documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to implement PaaS and pivotal is partnered with CF, which increased the visibility of their products to build the applications without hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To my knowledge CF is highly used when compared to AWS and Azure, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.