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Editor's Notes

• #10: Each new generation of computing brings with it a new type of application platform. For the cloud era, platform as a service, aka PaaS is the application platform. PaaS lets developers focus on development while their platform is delivered as a service. No more waiting for hardware or configuring machines or monkeying with middleware – the platform is operated as a service on the developers’ behalf. Apps get written, deployed and scale more quickly. Our approach to PaaS is to deliver an open PaaS. Give developers a choice of standard app frameworks, app services and clouds to deploy their applications. This seems obvious but even a year ago this was a novel concept. Remember people running around just last year saying we’d have to rewrite all our applications in Ruby for the cloud? Or assuming you’d write to a proprietary API that only ran on a proprietary cloud? Cloud Foundry has helped usher in a lot more choice when it comes to frameworks and app services. But there is a third leg to the open PaaS strategy which is giving people a choice of what clouds they deploy to, both today and into the future. We’re going to talk more about how important it is to be multi-cloud a little later.
• #14: There is another element of the open PaaS strategy – that is making the code available as open source. Cloud Foundry has been open source on Github under an Apache license since day one. You just can’t credibly deliver a technology for developers today that isn’t open source. We’ve seen some embrace of open source at lower levels of cloud infrastructure in recent weeks, but the reality is most PaaS is still very proprietary. [mention Spring, Rabbit, Redis – gotten pretty comfortable with OSS model at VMW]
• #15: What is BOSH? Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large-scale distributed services. Designed to enable the systematic and prescriptive evolution of services, BOSH facilitates the operation of production instances of Cloud Foundry. BOSH automates a variety of cloud infrastructure and allows targeted service updates with consistent results and minimal to no down time. Proven in the course of operating CloudFoundry.com, BOSH is available under an Apache license from CloudFoundry.org and currently includes support for VMware vSphere as well as early support for Amazon Web Services.
• #16: Broad industry investment in Cloud Foundry – companies making investments in and around Cloud Foudnry Include development tools, private cloud distributions, cloud management and deployment companies, public cloud operators, framework and app services developers, application developers. And great global distribution We appreciate all these companies investments and contributions. Want to highlight a few more
• #17: Hard to imagine locking yourself into a single cloud: From private to public From public to private From one public provider to another – pricing, reliability, geographic location, etc. Cloud Foundry designed to support multi-cloud environment Cloud Foundry was designed to support a wide variety of clouds: public clouds, private clouds, we even have shipped a micro cloud version that runs on a developer’s laptop, giving them a full version for dev and test that is symmetrical to other instances of Cloud Foundry. We believe multi-cloud support is an imperative in the cloud era. Customers will insist on choice and flexibility when it comes to clouds. They want to be able to move in the event a cloud becomes uncompetitive price-wise or has reliability problems. People need flexibility today and the future to move around based on compliance or geographical requirements, or to take advantage of vertical capabilities or innovation. Locking yourself into a single vendor, both oeprationally and technically, is a tough proposition to take. Cloud Foundry gives you the flexibility to run your own instance or choose form a variety of operators and preserve the freedom to move in the future.
• #18: In our first year, we’ve seen multi-cloud become a reality. Today you have a variety of options for Private cloud distributions where you get bits you can use to instantiate your own clouds Cloud Management and deployment solutions that will deploy CF onto a variety of clouds Public cloud operators who run instances of CF today These numbers constantly growing
• #21: Demo Flow: www.cf.com – show signup Console, show vmc install, target password reset Run simple ruby on Sinatra, show instances… “now let’s see how can build a full app”, develop locally on MCF and scale on CF.com – symmetry! Micro.cf.com – show login, download, domain management Show the running MCF console with “ok” on services STS – show cloud foundry plugin STS create a micro cloud server, Add MySQL services, deploy to MCF, run on mybookstore.mydevcloud.me locally in STS browser – “all the dev cycle in STS” Now let’s run on the .COM and scale Create .COM server and deploy book store IN THE SAME WAY Scale instances 3, Switch to vmc, show vmc apps – show instances 3, greater capacity, load balanced Back to command line , show node.js chat app + Redis on MCF – experiment with new technologies quickly First deploy on MCF, you can’t access the chat “it’s only me” Vmc –noresources , experimental Depoly to CF.com, same way - symetry [email protected], appCl0ud, books, --noresources