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IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI,…
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- Development environment creation (22)7.777%
- Upgrades and platform fixes (22)7.575%
- Services-enabled integration (23)7.575%
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What is IBM Cloud Foundry?
IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed to make it easier and faster to build, test, deploy, and scale applications. Enterprises can now run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, IoT, and data tools.
Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment (CFEE) runs on a Kubernetes service, which reduces complexity by giving development teams a comprehensive set of familiar tools under one management umbrella. CFEE allows IT organizations to safeguard their existing investment in Cloud Foundry, while seamlessly bringing in new skill sets that will lead to building apps that provide contemporary customer experiences.
IBM Cloud Foundry Features
Platform-as-a-Service Features
- Supported: Ease of building user interfaces
- Supported: Scalability
- Supported: Platform management overhead
- Supported: Workflow engine capability
- Supported: Services-enabled integration
- Supported: Development environment creation
- Supported: Issue recovery
- Supported: Upgrades and platform fixes
Additional Features
- Supported: Ease of use building interfaces
- Supported: Service enabled integration
- Supported: Development environment integration
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Learn more about IBM Cloud Foundry: http://ibm.biz/cloud-foundry
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IBM Cloud Foundry Competitors
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon AWS
- Google Cloud Platform
IBM Cloud Foundry Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | https://console.bluemix.net/docs/containers/cs_regions.html#regions-and-zones |
| Supported Languages | EnglishEnglish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese/Brazil, Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional |
Frequently Asked Questions
IBM Cloud Foundry is an IBM version of the open-source platform designed for building, testing, deploying, and scaling applications. Enterprises can run Cloud Foundry in a public isolated environment, while natively integrating with other IBM Cloud services, such as AI, Blockchain, and IoT.
Microsoft Azure are common alternatives for IBM Cloud Foundry.
Reviewers rate Scalability and Platform management overhead highest, with a score of 8.5.
The most common users of IBM Cloud Foundry are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 06, 2021
A multi-cloud and industry-standard Platform-as-a-Service Solution
- IBM Cloud Foundry is a powerful deployment model that is easy to manage and use, its simplicity of usage has eliminated the need for IT experts and cut our costs down.
- The multi-cloud IBM Cloud Foundry has allowed us to eliminate an entire class of financial risks and protect us from losses in the development of applications by providing us with the right information.
August 20, 2021
IBM Cloud Foundry - Cloud platform done right
- Simplify deployment processes means we can bring new updates to market easier and faster.
- Zero downtime means improved customer experience and satisfaction.
- Best option for autoscaling within budget
- Flexibility with multiple language option
May 14, 2021
IBM Bluemix Review
- Evaluating a product is always time consuming
- Increased the speed for PoCs by using simple tools like NodeRed in a dramatic way.
- No need to order hardware anymore for smaller tests. It is very compact.
April 25, 2021
Cloud Foundry is a super PaaS Service
- For just a few euros/dollars per month you can have a 100% working application.
- Increase performance/price only when you need it (e.g. black-Friday).
February 18, 2021
Recommended over AWS
- With ready-to-use IBM Cloud Foundry and other IBM cloud services, I avoided costs for corresponding stuff. Leaning on the IBM service predictability, I expect highly efficient unit-sale-margin, which should lead to the total project payback period of one and a half to two years.
- Positive impact, it helps to prevent memory resources where by I can adjust default memory allocated for an application instance which I know that the memory usage won't grow significantly.
- Provide trust opportunity for developers with their clients without charging the IBM Cloud Foundry users when they make use secure test domain.
- It help to increase profit margin which the cost of hosting on this platform is market affordable with what other competitor offers which they don't even give free ssl for test domain.
March 01, 2020
Cloud Foundry Usage
- Increased website performance
January 21, 2020
IBM Cloud Foundry Review
- The platform scales well and allows us to save on infrastructure costs.
- Pay for what you use.
December 09, 2019
CF - ease of use from development to production
- Time to production is reduced significantly.
December 03, 2019
Easy move to the cloud
- Be careful. There is a cost even if you don't use the capacity. So you have to consider always, high volume apps to be moved first, especially those that are required 24x7.
- Be honest. That app installed on a beast of 32 GB of RAM may just need 8 GB or 16.
- Be tidy. The best approach is to group apps and maybe merge them so you can use less Diego cells (or App units). Remember that there is a cost for unused capacity.
- Be cheap. Check from time to time if you don't need an app or service and turn it off. Remember you are paying for it and you have an allowance of 375 GB/hour per month.
- Monitor all the time. Not just availability, check for utilization, traffic, cost. Your migration to the cloud is not completed by uploading your code, just by being sure that you have the right platform at the right cost.
- The local hardware that you are leaving behind: Consider how old it is, maintenance, power, software licenses, availability, technical support cost and be sure about the real cost to know if your cloud services can be below that limit.
November 21, 2019
CF is easy to adopt to, but difficult to extend
- No environment set up, easier for teams to move to cloud than request for environments.
- Catalog services makes it easier as we don't need to provision any services.
- Issues with patching
November 20, 2019
IBM CF way to go!
- Balanced
- Looking into the overall investment and comparing with opex
- Overall moving towards positive
May 28, 2019
Choose at your own discretion
- We've seen huge success on some functionalities.
- We had to switch to Kubernetes to deploy large applications like UI.
- Autoscaling the apps helped with the budgeting.
- We have had many production outages.
- We have wasted an ungodly amount of time trying to deploy our UI and have had to change our entire deployment strategy as a result.
- Our clients have wasted 10's of 1000's of dollars on services that just failed and failed with no good reason.
February 27, 2019
Cloud Foundry allows you to save time and simplify your deployments
- Allow us to focus on what matters rather than lose time on server management.
- Provide flexibility about languages we can use.
- Can be expensive sometimes.
February 15, 2019
IBM Cloud Foundry
- Time/effort savings in deployment and management of applications
- A consistent model across all languages simplifies a lot of processes.
February 15, 2019
Decreased time to market leading to more innovation, faster
- Decreased time to market
- More experimentation
- Easier access to development on mobile devices.
February 14, 2019
ia for AI
- API integration
- Better use of API
- Service catalog
February 14, 2019
CF can be a start or an end, but it does not need to go away...
- This was the founding solution used to allow us to move in to and test out a cloud pipeline. This is what paved the way for a full production cloud solution to be possible.
- Having Cloud Foundry at the base of our development and sandpit environment, segregated away from our standard on premise solution has moved away red tape and ensured an agile way forward.
- Well we didn't end up using it so, in that respect, I would say a negative business impact since we spent time messing with it.
- It did show us some technologies to look for in the future though, so that was positive.
- However, with Bluemix we were able to experiment with new technology which is always good for the engineers in terms of learning new things.
September 15, 2017
A review from a "not-so-technical" perspective
- Our Virtual Agent (designed with Watson Conversation Service) handles more than 1,000 conversations per day.
- Since February 2017, our Virtual Agent (designed with Watson Conversation Service) has saved 222,363 minutes, or roughly 463 days, of customer support agent's time working on less complex Tier 1 issues, freeing up agent capacity to assist customers with more complex inquiries.
- A lot of our work is still a WIP so it is hard to answer this.
September 12, 2017
A good service for companies with big guns.
- Deployments are easier than in a server up environment, though it takes some training.
- The service proved unreliable; if it didn't deploy, we just did it again until it worked.
July 24, 2017
BlueMix-a-lot
- High ROI. Useful demonstration of my abilities as an engineer; contributed to landing my most recent position.
- The time taken to work out things initially was a bit of a hit as some parts were a bit confusing, however I documented these for future reference and now it's not too time consuming at all to get going.