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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 |
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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, 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 an easy, efficient, and multi-cloud platform to support users in the management, development, and continuous delivery of other applications.
- Linking a custom domain to an IBM Cloud Foundry-hosted PaaS application is simple.
- IBM Cloud Foundry offers well-explained and clear picture log errors to help users to figure out what's truly wrong and why the application isn't being pushed to the cloud or isn't working.
- Its online UI can become unresponsive or hang due to heavy usage, but we always have the CLI as a backup.
- When attempting to deploy larger Meteor-based applications, it frequently fails.
August 20, 2021
IBM Cloud Foundry - Cloud platform done right
- Simplicity - the command line tool provided can get you up and running within minutes.
- Resourceful - IBM Cloud Foundry is built on top of the open source Cloud Foundry technology, so any resources you find online about Cloud Foundry generally can be applied.
- Feature rich - provides all the necessary features for a cloud based platform, such as auto-scaling, 0 downtime deployment.
- Documentation - most of the time, you will be referring to the open source Cloud Foundry's documentation instead.
- Certificate management - this part is custom to IBM Cloud Foundry, and it does not have official APIs for you to manage SSL certificates for the various domains you might have.
- High scalablity
- Easy integration with few clicks
- High security provided
- Free allowance in every 30 days
- Needs better documentation
- Better support required
- Needs to improve on flexibility for setting resources
- Tough to access third party APIs
May 14, 2021
IBM Bluemix Review
- Bluemix provides a rich bundle of services you can use.
- Bluemix is now integrated with some infrastructure components.
- Fast ongoing development for services/offers.
- Support sometimes does not respond to tickets in an appropriate timeframe (currently waiting over 7 days for a reply). Sales does not respond to emails.
- The user interface and the integration of SoftLayer is weird, and it's easy to get lost there.
April 25, 2021
Cloud Foundry is a super PaaS Service
- Easy to use
- Scalable
- Very easy to add routes
- Nice UI/UX
- App logs are sorted by date but in the other direction (old logs are shown first).
- Not possible to switch off the service automatically.
- Difficulty in changing web server settings using Buildpaks.
February 18, 2021
Recommended over AWS
- The IBM Cloud CLI software doesn't change my laptop environment (whereas AWS CF Python CLI does).
- IBM Cloud Foundry allows me to use the most recent versions of Python.
- Hassle free linking of custom domain to hosted application on IBM Cloud Foundry
- Flexibility in hosting application on IBM Cloud with easy terminal command availability for all settings which is required to set up IBM Cloud Foundry instance for that project
- Well detailed explainable log errors to guide the user on what is really wrong , why the application was not push to cloud or not live
- Properly index error in search engine which often list IBM forums url within the top 5 when you search with keywords from the terminal log errors you copied
- Availability of IBM Cloud Foundry SDK on major languages with sample implementation code for the selected language
- Major improvement I think is currently needed is sponsor more seminars in tech related field because I could search and see more content on youtube compare to other IBM resources which I have to rely solely on the IBM documentation to implement it
- Properly index documentation on search engine optimization on how to point Cloud Foundry Application to a host on another platform
- Partner with Massive Open Online Courses like udacity to create video content on software development track with free tiers to host on the resources during learning
- Have issues when the domain doesn't come with ssl certificates and I upload generate Lets encrypt ssl to the custom domain interface after I install it, the domain won't be secure . I will want you to investigate this issue
March 01, 2020
Cloud Foundry Usage
- Good Scaling
- Easy to use
- Variety of Languages
- Not suitable for deploying large apps
- The user interface needs improvement
January 21, 2020
IBM Cloud Foundry Review
- Operations of the platform.
- Leveraging from other IBM cloud services.
- Adding external cloud services.
- UI could be easier to navigate.
December 09, 2019
CF - ease of use from development to production
- Routing.
- Ease of use.
- IAM security applies to Cloud Foundry.
- An option to assign a private IP for P2P security so that public routing can be avoided when needed.
December 03, 2019
Easy move to the cloud
- Easy move from local to the cloud for web apps and APIs.
- You can run IBM Cloud Foundry locally for testing.
- There is a free allowance every 30 days.
- Of course, you can take your apps back or move them to other kinds of hosting.
- Something like a scripting way to automate start/stop your cells so you can control or divide APIs you just need for a limited time.
- The pricing calculator is not considering the cost for the whole month.
- The IBM SDK is now deprecated so that means your actual SDK can be supported. More clarification is required on this.
November 21, 2019
CF is easy to adopt to, but difficult to extend
- Easy to use
- Bind services (catalog)
- Not easily extendable
- Lacks in observability
November 20, 2019
IBM CF way to go!
- Buildpacks
- Easy to Manage
- Security
- Reliability
- Availability
- Services
- User Dashboard
- Provide easy migration from on-prem/dedicated/other clouds to CFEE
May 28, 2019
Choose at your own discretion
- Scales well.
- Good for deploying small apps.
- A variety of commands to choose from to maintain the app well.
- Provides clear separation of organizations and spaces.
- It frequently fails when trying to deploy larger applications that involve Meteor.
- Mapping and unmapping require a restage, which loses the point of blue-green deployment.
- Needs better documentation for all the functionality.
- It is straightforward to deploy an application from the command line.
- It is straightforward via YAML files to change the specification of what you are deploying.
- Increasing the nodes supporting your app is easy.
- Autoscaling is a HUGE pain and not easy.
- The reliability is horrible.
- The connection between other IBM services works, but is not very good eg. Cloud object store, cloud functions, etc.
February 27, 2019
Cloud Foundry allows you to save time and simplify your deployments
- Quick setup
- Easy to manage
- Supports many languages
- Better scalability options
- More flexibility to set resources such as ram and CPU
- Improve environment variables management
February 15, 2019
IBM Cloud Foundry
- Simple deployment model
- Multiple language support
- Good monitoring and operational support
- Better security model, the current model is coarse grained.
February 15, 2019
Decreased time to market leading to more innovation, faster
- Enabling new services and the management of those services without involving another group.
- A wide variety of access to APIs and services
- It simplifies our internal documentation by reducing the number of steps that need to be taken.
- I’d love to see labels when marketing-names are used; for example, Cloudant is tough when I’m not aware what that brand is, but need to create a new database.
- Ability to copy projects, services, data, databases between domains - so a user of the IBM cloud with a partner of ours could build and test something, and then move it over to our account when it’s ready. Maybe that already exists.
- Easier access to third party APIs; perhaps a catalog of solutions from other vendors / a marketplace.
February 14, 2019
ia for AI
- Using for service management
- For chatbot
- For building our own applications
- Enterprise service authentication
- Scalability
- Resiliency
February 14, 2019
CF can be a start or an end, but it does not need to go away...
- Keeps things more standardized, ring fenced and thus easier for the end user to use
- Open source, allowing for a wide group for education, auto and support
- Developing at pace to keep up with the ever changing needs of the industry from on / off premise, public and private
- Wider ability for customization of applications
- Bluemix makes it really easy to deploy new applications; they give you a good starting point and try to walk you through the process until its time to write or deploy your code.
- They also offer basically everything you could need for your infrastructure in one spot, which is super valuable. This was an attractive option for us.
- They support all of the most popular languages and frameworks, JS, Ruby, etc... and have a lot of boilerplate apps to get you started.
- It significantly reduces the amount of DevOps work.
- When we used it, it was super buggy which didn't instill very much confidence in the platform.
- It seems kind of 'black boxy' like we didn't feel like we had much control over the system, so we were always kind of skeptical of the magic going on behind the scenes and how secure it was.
- There is not very much interfacing outside of the IBM ecosystem. We we felt pressured to use their version control management and the task management tools Bluemix provided when we were experimenting with it.
September 15, 2017
A review from a "not-so-technical" perspective
- Intuitive user interface makes it easy for anyone to use, regardless of their professional background.
- A lot of the services integrate well with external platforms, APIs, and programs, not just IBM services. A lot of the competitors in this space lack this ability.
- Maybe it is just our contract in particular, but support and help is always made available.
- Need: VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES! Particularly with the Conversation Service.
- Need: Annotation capabilities for dialog nodes in Conversation Service.
- Need: Search/querying capabilities in Conversation Service
- Need: Clearer documentation of the S2T service. I had to use a third party website for an understanding of how to use this.
September 12, 2017
A good service for companies with big guns.
- Large collection of tools to integrate with.
- Growing application support.
- Bluemix has the ability to scale easily from very small to very large.
- Applications that were integrated had a feeling like they came from very different companies and organizations.
- Logins had to be performed often between different services, once a week the applications would change and we had to learn a different way to do the logins.
- Branding is important, but the names, like "Jazz" would get in the way of what the application did for us. So new developers would have to learn 5-6 new special websites just to do a single deployment. And one or two new changes a month to keep up with it.
July 24, 2017
BlueMix-a-lot
- IBM Bluemix provides a wealth of powerful APIs. The ones I tried were easy to use and required minimal training to get up to speed.
- I'd rate the documentation 9/10 as it was easy to navigate, had good examples and explained most of the possible inputs/outputs.
- The IBM Bluemix interface itself was horrendous. Performance is a feature, especially for a platform as pricey as Bluemix. Please cure the sluggishness so it's actually useable.
- Billing details could be improved so it's easier to figure out how much I'm paying and why.
- Worst customer support I've ever seen. With multiple tickets, I never heard a response. Despite being a paying customer!
- Easy modular access to new functionality like text to speech.
- Integrates well with NodeRED.
- Documentation is really hard to search through and follow along with. Needs a lot more examples and guidance.
- Pricing isn't clear a lot of the time. As a developer trying new stuff, I've been hit with charges and been unsure where the usage came from. Would be good for this to be easier to follow up. Had asked support staff and got no reply.
- The interface can be overwhleming.