Variations & Experiments

In this lesson, we'll look at some variations and experiments that can be conducted with Cloud Foundry.

We'll cover the following

Variations #

This chapter refers to the PaaS concept. Cloud Foundry is not the only available PaaS.

  • OpenShift supplements Kubernetes with support for different programming languages to automate the generation of the Docker containers.

  • Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is only available on the Amazon Cloud. It can install applications in virtual machines and scale these virtual machines. Elastic Beanstalk represents a simplification compared to the IaaS approach. Since Beanstalk is based on IaaS and some additional features, Beanstalk rests on a very stable foundation. In Beanstalk applications, additional services from the Amazon offer can be used. These include databases and MOMs. Elastic Beanstalk benefits from the numerous components available in the Amazon Cloud.

  • Heroku is only available in the public cloud. Similar to Cloud Foundry it has buildpacks for supporting different programming languages and a marketplace for additional services.

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