What is Cloud Foundry?

Answer:  Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud platform as a service (PaaS) on which developers can build, deploy, run and scale applications on public and private cloud models. VMware originally created Cloud Foundry and it is now part of Pivotal Software.

 

Please see here: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/

Also please take a look here for information on how Cloud Foundry works.

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There are various flavors of CF, including HDP, HPE Stackato, and Pivotal.