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Cloud Foundry for Developers

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Product type Book

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788391443

Pages 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Rahul Kumar Jain

Rick Farmer

David Wu

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Cloud Foundry Introduction

2. Cloud Foundry CLI and Apps Manager

3. Getting Started with PCF Dev

4. Users, Orgs, Spaces, and Roles

5. Architecting and Building Apps for the Cloud

6. Deploying Apps to Cloud Foundry

7. Microservices and Worker Applications

8. Services and Service Brokers

9. Buildpacks

10. Troubleshooting Applications in Cloud Foundry

11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Installing the cf CLI

To install the cf CLI, go to https://console.run.pivotal.io/tools. Download and run the installer for your platform.

Verify the installation by opening a Terminal window and typing cf --version. With this, you now have a Cloud Foundry client that can communicate with any Cloud Foundry installation, including PWS.

Note

Make sure that you have the latest version of the cf CLI installed. There may be cases where a previously installed version of the cf CLI is already present. This will cause frustration if there have been significant changes in the tool since the previous version was installed.

If you are interested in alternative ways to install the cf CLI, there are a few additional possibilities, including:

Downloading and installing it from GitHub
Installing it using a package manager

Note

The cf CLI is written in the Go programming language so that it is a highly performant application. It is distributed as a self-contained binary with no external dependencies. If you are...

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Authors (3)

Rahul Kumar Jain

Rahul Kumar has got more than 10 years of experience in the space of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. His expertise lies in the machine learning and deep learning arena. He is known to be a seasoned professional in the area of Business Consulting and Business Problem Solving, fuelled by his proficiency in machine learning and deep learning. He has been associated with organizations such as Mercedes-Benz Research and Development (India), Fidelity Investments, Royal Bank of Scotland among others. He has accumulated a diverse exposure through industries like BFSI, telecom and automobile. Rahul has also got papers published in IIM and IISc Journals.

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Rick Farmer

Rick Farmer is one of the founders and a leader of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions enterprise consulting and delivery team at Pivotal. Over the last two decades, he established a track record of navigating complex organizational technology and services to deliver breathtaking results for mission-critical initiatives at over 70 of the world's most recognizable companies and government entities. Many of the engagements he has anchored have won various personal and project awards. Rick unlocks innovation and business value using Cloud Foundry to inject enterprise agility into even the most challenging environments by aligning digital transformation, technical and business opportunities. He enjoys speaking at conferences on subjects ranging from Cloud Foundry to Data Science to Digital Transformation to Agility in the Enterprise. Since 1997, Rick has surfed tropical events hitting the Texas Gulf Coast. He has a data science visualization project inducted into the Visualization Hall of Fame at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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David Wu

David Wu has been developing software for over 17 years and has in-depth software and embedded device engineering experience in financial, photographic, medical, science and technology, and cinematic/broadcast industries, from the perspective of both enterprise and product development and for various operating systems such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux. A number of these applications and products have been highly praised, internationally recognized and have won prestigious awards. Wu holds a first class honors in the bachelors of computer science at Monash University and a Ph.D. in computer engineering at RMIT, Australia. In addition to software development, he is also an expert in image processing, compression, video analytics, and forensic imaging. He currently serves as an Advisory Solutions Architect at Pivotal, an agent of change helping transform organizations with Cloud Foundry and build better software. He can be followed on Twitter @_Doc_Dave_.

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