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Cloud Foundry vs Spring Cloud: What are the differences?
Cloud Foundry: Deploy and scale applications in seconds on your choice of private or public cloud. 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; Spring Cloud: Spring helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable,fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications. Spring helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable, fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications.
Cloud Foundry can be classified as a tool in the "Platform as a Service" category, while Spring Cloud is grouped under "Container Tools".
Cloud Foundry is an open source tool with 605 GitHub stars and 532 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Cloud Foundry's open source repository on GitHub.
Zetaops, Swingvy, and Monkey Exchange are some of the popular companies that use Spring Cloud, whereas Cloud Foundry is used by Intel, VMware, and SBT Aqua. Spring Cloud has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 55 developers stacks; compared to Cloud Foundry, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
Pros of Cloud Foundry
- Perfectly aligned with springboot2
- Free distributed tracing (zipkin)1
- Application health management1
- Free service discovery (Eureka)1