Under no circumstance would I recommend Cloud Foundry to anyone for any reason
May 28, 2019

Under no circumstance would I recommend Cloud Foundry to anyone for any reason

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Foundry

We have several clients with whom we have used it. We have it in production for both the front and back ends of our implementation. We have it running to serve a web app that is used as a call taking management system. We have it running to serve an application that is used for inventory management, tracking, and purchasing.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
  • 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.
We have had to move our deployments to Kubernetes because we needed more reliability. We moved to Google because IBM rates and billing was so backward and expensive. Our client was also very angry at all the outages, lost revenue, production down time and inordinately expensive costs that all the outages cost them.
It is appropriate if you are deploying a very lightweight app. It is appropriate if your application is not going to be used in production. It is horrible if you are going to deploy any type of UI that has any level of complexity. Not appropriate for complex processes. Not appropriate for high CPU operations.

Comments

  • Shannon Cardwell | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Shannon Cardwell
    (Vendor Representative) commented 5 years ago
    Hello,  This is Shannon from IBM Cloud, thanking you for your feedback and sharing your experience with IBM Cloud Foundry.  We are glad to hear you found deploying an app and customizing straightforward and easy. But we are sorry to hear you've experienced issues with reliability and scaling. As we continue to improve our product roadmap, these comments are extremely valuable.  Our autoscaling has recently been updated, please see this blog post for details: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/new-autoscaling-capabilities-for-ibm-cloud-foundry-public-environments-now-in-beta In terms of application stability, these tutorials might be helpful: >https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-strategies-for-resilient-applications >https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/tutorials?topic=solution-tutorials-multi-region-webapp In addition, please reach out to Sachi Pradhan, our Cloud Foundry Offering Manager,  at spradha@us.ibm.com to help personally resolve your issues.

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