Cloud Foundry

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Cloud Foundry
Developer(s) VMware
GoPivotal
Initial release 2011
Written in Ruby
Type Cloud computing
License Apache License 2.0
Website cloudfoundry.com

Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud computing platform as a service (PaaS) software developed by VMware released under the terms of the Apache License 2.0. Cloud Foundry is part of the Pivotal initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC Corporation. It is primarily written in Ruby. The source and development community for this software is available at cloudfoundry.org

Software

The source code is under an Apache 2.0 license, and contributions are governed by the VMware contributors' license for individuals and corporations. These licenses grant both copyright and patent access and protection to the VMware Corporation, which is the same model that VMware has followed with the Spring Framework from SpringSource, which VMware acquired in 2009.

Supported runtimes and frameworks include:[1]

Language Runtime Framework
Java Java 6, Java 7 Spring Framework 3.1
Ruby Ruby 1.8, Ruby 1.9 Rails, Sinatra
Node.js Node.js
Scala Play 2.0, Lift

Service

As well as being an open source software project, Cloud Foundry is also a hosted service offered at cloudfoundry.com. As of September 2012, this service was still in beta. CloudFoundry.com runs on VMware's infrastructure and uses its vSphere virtualization product suite as infrastructure.

Other companies also offer platform as a service products using the Cloud Foundry platform.

The following services are available on the hosted CloudFoundry.com platform, with other Cloud Foundry-based PaaS providers and the Open Source codebase offering additional databases and other service integrations.

Service Description
MySQL The open source relational database
vFabric Postgres Relational database based on PostgreSQL
MongoDB The scalable, open, document-based database
Redis The open key-value data structure server
RabbitMQ Reliable, scalable, and portable messaging for applications

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/frameworks.html

External links

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