VMware Pivotal CF
The Leading Enterprise PaaS Powered by Cloud Foundry

Overview:

Pivotal CF is Pivotal's commercially supported Platform-as-a-Service built on Cloud Foundry, offering hybrid deployment options powered by vSphere and vCloud Hybrid Service.

	Enterprise-class capability Run an enterprise-ready PaaS powered by the virtualization platform that you already trust to run and manage your applications.
	Business agility Enable business agility by accelerating application development and streamlining the delivery of underlying infrastructure.
	Hybrid flexibility Build and run applications using a PaaS that supports the flexibility of on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid cloud deployment.

At-A-Glance

• Pivotal CF provides a turnkey PaaS experience for agile development teams to rapidly update and scale applications on a private cloud that can be instantly expanded and upgraded with no downtime.
• Pivotal CF is the first integrated platform encompassing the industry's leading big data framework, Apache Hadoop, and the leading open source PaaS, Cloud Foundry, to enable enterprise developers and cloud operators to build, manage and scale a new class of applications that leverage modern frameworks that instantly bind to massive data sets.
• Pivotal CF Elastic Runtime Service provides a complete, scalable runtime environment, extensible to most modern frameworks or languages running on Linux. Deployed applications enjoy built-in services, and can automatically bind to new data services through a service broker or to an existing user provided service.
• Pivotal CF Operations Manager is the world's first IaaS-integrated PaaS Operations Manager to support turnkey, fully automated deployment, canary-style updates and 1-click horizontal and vertical scaling on vSphere private clouds and VMware Hybrid Cloud Service (vCHS)

Becoming a Software Driven Enterprise

Software is eating the world — executives cite software as the top factor impacting their organizations. Companies effectively using software development to achieve competitive advantage are more profitable than their peers¹. Organizations such as Square ($3.5B valuation, Financial Services), Uber ($3.5B valuation, Transportation), Netflix ($19B valuation, Media and Entertainment), Airbnb ($3.5B valuation, Hospitality), the Climate Corporation ($1.1B acquisition, Agriculture) and Etsy ($600M valuation, Boutique Retail) are using software to change industries and disrupt business models.

Powering this trend is a new generation of developers driving a deep shift in platforms and processes. These developers work in agile teams and demand a platform that allows them to continuously deliver updates to and horizontally scale their applications with no downtime. They seek standardized ways to plug in leading data services and perform deep user analytics on top of massive datasets to drive rapid iteration based on customer needs.

An enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry, is the key enabler for achieving the modern, software driven organization. Purpose built for continuous delivery and horizontal architectures, Cloud Foundry allows developers to focus on the application as the unit of deployment and scale, not infrastructure. It provides an abstraction layer that enables enterprises to make infrastructure choices based on price, performance, location and efficiency.

Why Pivotal CF?

Companies seeking to become a software-driven enterprise for greater agility are often impeded by the complexity of deploying, upgrading, operating and scaling a PaaS on their private cloud.

Pivotal CF is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. It delivers a turnkey experience for scaling and updating PaaS on the private cloud, with no downtime. Pivotal CF enables developers to provision and bind leading application and data services such as Hadoop on a unified platform. It empowers businesses to deliver applications and update them with new features at a velocity and scale previously only available to Internet giants, allowing enterprises to innovate with disruptive speed.

Elastic Runtime Service

Self Service Platform for Application Management
Pivotal CF provides the ideal self-service platform for development teams of any size to start small and rapidly evolve new ideas into complex applications, increasing business agility. Developers upload their application source files using the CF CLI or via plugins for popular IDE and build tools like Eclipse, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Bamboo and more. The simplified semantics of the CF CLI and REST API allow users to manage and scale applications, as well as create and bind zero-touch data services. Pivotal CF's role-based control and lifecycle staging isolation enable different teams to be responsible for early development, testing, staging and ultimately production. A web console allows developers and application owners to monitor, manage and administer users and services.

Flexible Multi-Language 'Buildpack' Architecture
Developers simply push applications to Pivotal CF for an "it just works" experience. Pivotal CF uses a flexible approach called buildpacks to dynamically assemble and configure a complete runtime environment for executing a particular class of applications. Rather than specifying how to run applications, developers can rely on buildpacks to detect, download and configure the appropriate runtimes, containers, and libraries. Since buildpacks are extensible to most modern runtimes and frameworks running on Linux, enterprises can deploy apps written in nearly any language to Pivotal CF. Pivotal provided buildpacks for Java, Ruby and Node are part of a broad buildpack provider ecosystem that ensures constant updates and maintenance for virtually any language. Operators can add new runtimes using buildpacks and control the order in which buildpacks are applied.

Outstanding Java Spring Support and Zero-Touch Service Integration
Enterprises can expect outstanding Java Spring support through the Pivotal provided Java buildpack. Most Spring applications require no changes to get started on Pivotal CF and, once there, enjoy zero-touch integration with services such as MySQL and RabbitMQ. The Java buildpack automatically infers memory settings and configures the container for bound services so developers can focus on writing code, not configuring middleware.

Deployed Applications Enjoy Built in Services
Once deployed to Pivotal CF, applications enjoy built-in services for:

• Instant, horizontal application tier scaling
• Load balancing and DNS
• Automated health management
• Logging and auditing
• User and services management via a Developer Console

The built in features of the Elastic Runtime service allow enterprises to dramatically reduce the number of vendors and integrations required for continuous software delivery.

Pivotal CF supports horizontal scaling and rapid application deployment via updates to a shared routing tier for all applications in real-time. Tight coordination of dynamic routing and fast, dynamic container creation are at the heart of Pivotal CF's ability to instantly scale and update hundreds of instances. Pivotal CF empowers enterprises to support mobile and social applications and update them with new features at a velocity and scale previously only available to Internet giants.

A truly scalable platform must maintain availability for all running applications with minimum operator intervention. Pivotal CF's 3rd generation application health manager continuously monitors all applications running on a Pivotal CF instance and intervenes to make the actual state match the intended state for single second app recovery.

The ability to deliver a unified log stream of application platform events with end user actions for root cause analysis and understanding end-to-end service delivery is key to unlocking the value of an organization's unstructured data. Pivotal CF Loggregator delivers the ability to tail a unified log stream of application platform events and end user actions to clients like the CF CLI, and publish the log stream to a syslog drain for integration with tools such as Splunk or logstash.

Standardized Service Configuration and Extensibility
Enterprises are shifting towards consumable web services to simplify configuration and increase application extensibility and portability. Developers using Pivotal CF's standard service "binding" mechanism benefit from automatic provisioning, configuration, management and storage of service connection information, credentials and dependencies. The application can now be moved from development and test to staging and production environments with no changes.

Pivotal CF Operations Manager

World's First IaaS Integrated PaaS Operation Manager
Pivotal CF is the only PaaS that supports direct IaaS API integration for turnkey deployment and full life-cycle management. Pivotal CF Operations Manager installs from a single virtual appliance (OVA). From there, Operations Manager fully automates the deployment of Pivotal CF, using IaaS APIs, onto a resource pool of Linux VMs with Linux containers.

Rapid, Turnkey Deployments and Updates Optimized for VMware Clouds
Cloud operators can use a simple interface for rapid, turnkey deployment onto a vSphere environment running in their data centers or the VMware Hybrid Cloud Service. Operations Manager uses 'canary-style' deployments to perform live updates of a running Pivotal CF system. This allows a cloud operator, with a few clicks, to:

• Both vertically and horizontally scale the Elastic Runtime
• Provide continuous software updates and upgrades for Pivotal CF, including OS patches

without application downtime. Pivotal CF Operations Manager provides a general mechanism for turnkey deployment of large-scale distributed services.