Lessons Learned Using BOSH and OpenStack APIs to Deploy Large Distributed Systems
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2015-10-28

CloudFoundry (CF) is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that is designed to be agnostic to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds and application platforms. This means that CF can be deployed in many IaaS, e.g., AWS, OpenStack, SoftLayer, and deploy different applications of varied platforms, e.g., Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django, Golang, PHP/Zen, and so on.

CF achieves it's cross-cloud capabilities by defining a thin layer called Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) that is implemented for each targeted