Pivotal Cloud Foundry Reviews

Since we have just started using the solution, I won't be able to comment on its features. In my current company, we need access to and understand the solution. So, it takes a lot of time.

Improvement-wise, the tool needs to have the capability for more configurations. Pivotal Cloud Foundry does not support the migration process. So, it is also an area for improvement in the solution.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files.

We use it primarily to build microservices.

I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry serves as a cloud hosting platform for our company, where all microservices and cloud-related components in our application are deployed. Essentially, it's a hosting cloud platform for us.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a private cloud platform for internal bank transactions, whereas AWS is for external transactions. The bank has set up a private cloud for more security, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides a secure option for hosting internal transactions. Unlike other cloud platforms such as Amazon, GCP, or Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry is more secure as it is a private cloud platform.

We used the solution to deploy the microservice that we developed that is built on Spring Boot.

Previously, everything was monolithic, sometime around 2014 to 2016. After that, the organization slowly moved to microservice-based architecture.

Cloud Foundry is the brand or container that offers a private cloud mode and can host within the enterprise data center. It helps to push all the new microservices or the migrated monolith to microservice-based design microservices, and the micro front end will be pushed to this PCF-based container.

Also, it can code gateways too. By that, I mean the security gateways. Cloud Foundry supports the config server and the Discovery server, then the router also on the microservice, which is nothing but the API hosting. These are all the use cases in which we mainly use PCF.

Essentially, the solution provides cloud diagnostic capabilities, making it easier to port applications from one cloud provider to another. Some companies do not wish to build technology that is linked to AWS, Azure, or Google, and instead opt for platforms such as OpenShift.

Most cloud services can deploy the solution, but countries such as Switzerland and Singapore have strict data residency rules. They must ensure that the data they store in the cloud remains within their geographical boundaries. If they cannot get this assurance from the cloud providers, they usually do not move their applications. Therefore, these customers prefer to keep their applications running on their own data centers. Other customers who do not have these constraints can move to any cloud provider of their choice.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java. The solution is especially strong in Java because later it began to support other technologies, but Java remains its forte and it leverages many frameworks from the Spring Cloud, which is a very robust capability. It is very easy to build applications and they take care of many cross-cutting concerns that any application or platform has. Therefore, developers only need to focus on writing the business services, without worrying about the cross-cutting technical challenges that need to be solved in application development. The solution also has a very robust deployment capability, making deployment quite easy. We can build a service and then push it through with ease. Setting up the Pivotal platform is complex and takes a while, but once it is set up, it becomes much simpler.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a microservice architecture for enterprises.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance.

I use the Pivotal Cloud Foundry mainly in the financial services space and the solution is used for shifting your on-premise work to the cloud. 

The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use.