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Cloud Foundry vs OpenStack: What are the differences?

Introduction

Cloud Foundry and OpenStack are two widely used open-source cloud computing platforms. While both platforms offer cloud infrastructure and services, there are several key differences between them.

  1. Architecture: Cloud Foundry is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides a fully managed application runtime environment. It abstracts the underlying infrastructure and automates the deployment and scaling of applications. On the other hand, OpenStack is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software that offers a suite of components for managing and controlling cloud infrastructure resources like compute, storage, and networking.

  2. Focus: Cloud Foundry primarily focuses on simplifying application development and deployment. It provides developers with a higher level of abstraction, allowing them to focus on writing code rather than managing infrastructure. OpenStack, on the other hand, emphasizes the management and orchestration of infrastructure resources.

  3. Multi-Tenancy: Cloud Foundry natively supports multi-tenancy, allowing multiple users or organizations to operate within a shared environment while keeping their applications and data isolated. OpenStack also provides multi-tenancy through the concept of projects and tenants, allowing different users to have their own virtual resources within the same infrastructure.

  4. Deployment Models: Cloud Foundry typically runs on public or private cloud infrastructure, providing a ready-to-use application platform. OpenStack, on the other hand, offers more flexibility in terms of deployment models. It can be used to build private clouds, public clouds, hybrid clouds, or even edge computing environments.

  5. Abstraction Level: Cloud Foundry abstracts away the infrastructure and provides a higher level of abstraction to developers, allowing them to focus on application development and deployment. OpenStack, while providing infrastructure abstraction, still requires users to have a good understanding of the underlying compute, storage, and networking components.

  6. Community Support: Both Cloud Foundry and OpenStack have active and thriving open-source communities. However, Cloud Foundry has a more focused community of application developers and operators, while OpenStack has a broader community that includes infrastructure engineers, operators, and developers working on various aspects of cloud infrastructure.

In summary, Cloud Foundry and OpenStack differ in their architecture, focus, multi-tenancy support, deployment models, abstraction level, and the nature of their respective open-source communities.

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    Perfectly aligned with springboot
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    Free distributed tracing (zipkin)
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    Application health management
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    Free service discovery (Eureka)
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    Private cloud
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    Avoid vendor lock-in
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    Flexible in use
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    Industry leader
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    Supported by many companies in top500
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    Robust architecture

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What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

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What are some alternatives to Cloud Foundry and OpenStack?
Red Hat OpenShift
OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
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