Cloud Foundry Developer (CFD)

Application developers seeking introductory understanding of Cloud Foundry and experience using it to deploy, manage, and scale applications.

At the end of the training, you should have an understanding of the following:

Understand the differences between traditional IT provisioning, Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service
Explain organizations, spaces, routes, services (managed, user-defined), manifests, buildpacks, applications and droplets
Identify Pivotal Cloud Foundry components: Router, Cloud Controller, Health Manager, Loggregator and Cells
Deploy pre-existing applications to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, obtain logs, debug deployment issues, scale, start, stop, bind to services
Use the command-line interface and Apps Manager to work with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Understand the impact of the cloud environment on application architecture
Perform zero-downtime deployments
Understand the role of services in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, gain experience using one or more examples
Understand the purpose of buildpacks, gain experience specifying buildpacks and making configuration changes
Understand and gain experience with 3rd party log management, Application Performance Monitoring, and Continuous Delivery tools that integrate with Pivotal Cloud Foundry.