Item: IBM Cloud Foundry
Rating: 9
Author: Kim Desrosiers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloud Foundry to simply to manage our applications. Using Cloud Foundry allows us to deploy quickly and easily with no hassles. It is simple to manage multiple environments such as staging and production. Thus we are able to focus on development rather than managing deployments. Moreover, Cloud Foundry provides a good performance.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Google App Engine

IBM Cloud Foundry is among the services provided by our cloud provider. This is why we choose to go with Cloud Foundry.

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, IBM Cloud Object Storage, IBM Watson IoT

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloud Foundry is well suited for a web application using a monolithic architecture. It works well with a dockerized application as well.

However, Cloud Foundry is not well suited for microservices architecture applications. The pricing model of Cloud Foundry is not thought with microservices in mind.

Cloud Foundry allows you to save time and simplify your deployments

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Foundry