Cloud Foundry Blog
cloudfoundry.org · Company blog · on HN since 2011
The Cloud Foundry project blog covers the open source platform-as-a-service, its Kubernetes work, and its community and technology changes.
What HN saysCommenters point to Cloud Foundry as an open source, multi-tenant PaaS used by big companies, and cite its buildpacks.
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Most-shared posts
- 1CloudFoundry Open Source17 people · 7 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Run Cloud Foundry Applications in Kubernetes2 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 3UniK: Build and Run Unikernels with Ease2 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4Index2 people · first shared 2014
- 5Korifi2 people · first shared 2024
- 6How Cloudfuji (S11) uses Cloud Foundry to make open source Apps big business1 people · 59 points · first shared 2012 · 16 comments on HN
- 7“We Shrunk the Cloud” - Introducing Micro Cloud Foundry for Developers1 people · 31 points · first shared 2011 · 6 comments on HN
- 8Cloud Foundry Adds PHP and Python1 people · 30 points · first shared 2011 · 16 comments on HN
- 9Why Is Consul.io a Problem for Cloud Foundry?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10Taming the AWS API with statistics1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Cloud Foundry: Now Supporting Scala1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Build a Real time activity stream with Node.js, Redis and MoNgoDB1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 13Cloud Foundry Further Improves Support for Ruby Applications1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14How Is Cloud Foundry Transitioning from Consul.io?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Cloudfoundry announces new Open Source model1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
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WolfOliver · 2021-12-20
Heroku came up with the idea of buildpacks [01] the idea has later been picked up by Cloud Foundry [02]. Using buildpacks (as an alternative to dockerfiles/images) mitigates this problem. A lot of best practices are build into the buildpacks.
Of course this does not work for everything. But for most cases this is just good enough.
[01] https://buildpacks.io/
[02] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
maxmoehl · 2025-12-19
I am working on the bare metal automation of IronCore. The project provides tooling to automate the management of data-center hardware and a an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering on top of that.
https://ironcore.dev/
Previously I was working on the ingress components of Cloud Foundry, a Platform-as-a-Service offering.
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
maxt · 2017-01-06
I've started to use PaaS (Platform as a service) because it's way more convenient and reduces the headache of getting a simple blog up and running. VPSes are often difficult to harden and many of the recipes online for spinning up servers are not tried and tested and often leave gaping security holes in the installation. At least with PaaS these holes are patched because they are widely deployed on many machines and have to be secure by design. Here's a few to get you started:
https://www.ctl.io/appfog/
https://bitnami.com/
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
https://www.openshift.com/
tscolari · 2016-10-14
You should check cloudfoundry -> https://cloudfoundry.org
It's opensource, multi-tenant and widely tested (used) by big companies.
henryaj · 2015-11-11
> At Yelp we believe in not reinventing the wheel where possible.
Then... why invent your own platform instead of just using Cloud Foundry[0]?
[0]: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/
jacques_chester · 2015-05-17
Cloud Foundry does what you want -- push an app, see it run, get load balancing and log aggregation out of the box[0]. And healthchecks, and buildpacks, and so on and so forth.
CF runs on AWS.
You can also play with Lattice, which is a cut down version intended to support fast development cycles[1].
Disclaimer: I used to work on Cloud Foundry.
[0] http://cloudfoundry.org/
[1] http://lattice.cf/
bacongobbler · 2014-11-11
rancher is a bit different. It's based on lower-level APIs which allow your containers to hook into a certain cloud-provider features like Amazon's EBS, ELBs and VPCs. Deis uses the docker engine to ship and run applications, providing an easy developer workflow. We're similar to other PaaS solutions like Dokku[1], Flynn[2], and Cloud Foundry[3].
[1]: https://github.com/progrium/dokku
[2]: https://flynn.io/
[3]: http://cloudfoundry.org/
SingAlong · 2013-03-25
It looks like an alternative to Heroku and VMware's CloudFoundry (http://www.cloudfoundry.org, which is also opensource)
I just checked the docs - http://docs.tsuru.io and the git repo - https://github.com/globocom/tsuru
Would have been nice to see screenshots of the command line tool. Would have made things simpler for commoners.
druiid · 2012-12-25
There's also Cloud Foundry (Which is essentially becoming the standard for PaaS opensource) http://www.cloudfoundry.org/
And then the 'pay' version created by Activestate and supports PHP and a pretty GUI http://www.activestate.com/stackato
jasongullickson · 2012-06-15
This is what I was thinking of (I think):
http://cloudfoundry.org/
ctide · 2011-04-12
The stack is open source: http://cloudfoundry.org/
amluto · 2025-07-24
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/34902
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/cve-2020-15586/
I don’t see any evidence that anyone wrote an RCE exploit for this, but I also don’t see any evidence of anyone even trying to rule it out.
ofrzeta · 2025-05-31
"bring back Cloud Foundry"? It's not dead, afaik. Also there is Korifi, a project to bring the Cloudfoundry API to Kubernetes https://www.cloudfoundry.org/technology/korifi/
worldsayshi · 2024-04-29
Yeah, I looked a bit now. It seems there are some serious attempts at this.
Like:
- https://www.cloudfoundry.org/technology/korifi/
- https://kubevela.io/
- https://www.crossplane.io/
Not sure if all of them are relevant and on first glance they all seem significantly harder to pick up than something like Heroku.
Found them through this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/m8r5py/looking_for_micro_…
based2 · 2021-01-09
https://github.com/vanillastack/vanillastack ASLv2
Kubernetes
Ceph via Rook https://rook.io/
OpenStack https://www.openstack.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack
Cloudfoundry https://www.cloudfoundry.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Foundry
Guacamole https://guacamole.apache.org/
Kubevirt https://kubevirt.io/
Prometheus
Promtail https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/clients/promtail/
Grafana
ForHackernews · 2020-08-25
Does Cloud Foundry/Cloud Native Buildpacks enable the Heroku workflow on k8s?
https://devstack.in/2020/01/03/introduction-to-cloud-native-buildpacks…
https://www.cloudfoundry.org/kubecf/
zmmmmm · 2018-10-31
I like the CloudFoundry report [1] better as a reflection of what businesses are actually using rather than search engine metrics (TIOBE) which are overly influenced by controversy and search engine methodologies than actual usage. However it's no prettier a picture, almost no functional languages in the list at all, only Scala making a significant dent (and you can debate whether that is functional or not). Other JVM languages like Groovy are significantly ahead of Clojure in all rankings.
[1] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/wp-content/uploads/Developer-Language-Rep…
helloiamaperson · 2016-02-26
There's a foundation that's a separate entity that owns the IP: https://www.cloudfoundry.org/membership/members/
m0shen · 2012-07-28
No Perl support. But, it looks like it's a Cloud Foundry thing:
http://cloudfoundry.org/search?q=perl
theossuary · 2024-09-04
I can't say I've seen the same, so I dug into it. There's a good list from RedHat[1] on CVEs SELinux mitigated. I went through them:
- CVE-2016-9962 - Bypasses Apparmor [2], mitigated by SELinux
- CVE-2022-0492 - Apparmor and Seccomp also protect against
- CVE-2019-5736 - Mixed, blocked by the default SELinux policy in RHEL (not Fedora), not blocked by the default AppArmor policy[3]
- CVE-2021-3156 - This one is not a good one for RedHat to put on the list. SELinux by default doesn't protect against it, Debian 10 at the time had a Linux security feature enabled (fs.protected_symlinks) that helped mitigate it, and additionally CVE-2021-23240 came out which had similar effects but only occurred on SELinux systems.
- CVE-2019-9213 - Not mitigated by AppArmor, mitigated by SELinux
- CVE-2019-13272 - Not mitigated by AppArmor, not mitigated by default SELinux policy, but easy to mitigate by enabling boolean. I'd consider this a win for SELinux, but only just.
While digging into this more, I came across this BlackHat talk[4] which really quantifies how SELinux improves security (though doesn't contrast it with AppArmor). I also came across a paper on usability of SELinux and AppArmor[5] which brings up an interesting point: If the tool is too complex, even if it's more powerful, more often than not it won't end up having better results.
That's all to say, I think if you're willing to invest a lot of time into it (say you want to make security your niche in your development…
boilerupnc · 2019-03-08
IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Edition [1] "IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment uniquely unites two powerhouse open-source projects: Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. The enthusiastic adoption of Kubernetes in the cloud market merited a closer look at how customers could leverage both platforms (one focused on applications and the other focused on containers as the primary units of business function) to build coherent cloud solutions."
Eirini [2] "Run Cloud Foundry Applications in Kubernetes"
IBM Cloud Private (self-managed K8s) CFEE [3] "Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment platform brings the same level of application capability that you experience in IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Dedicated to your data center. It runs directly on IBM® Cloud Private by using Kubernetes containers."
[Disclosure: I'm an IBMer and CF Enthusiast]
[1] . https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2018/10/ibm-cloud-foundry-enterprise…
[2] . https://www.cloudfoundry.org/project-eirini/
[3] . https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSBS6K_3.1.2/cloud_foun…