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Understanding the concepts of PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry)

In the previous article , we have talked about Cloud Computing and why it is so popular nowadays. We have also talked about how Amazon Web Services is different from Cloud Foundry . Now let’s see how PCF is related to Cloud Foundry and why it is so popular.   What is PCF? Pivotal Cloud Foundry abbreviated as PCF is a commercial cloud platform, a product built by Pivotal on top of the open source Cloud Foundry . Hence, it is Platform as a Service ( PaaS ) and can be deployed on any of the IaaS ( Infrastructure as a Service ) platforms including AWS , GCP , OpenStack , VMware vSphere and others.   Why go for PCF? The advantage of using a PaaS platform is the ability for the development teams to deploy quickly the new features of the application they are working on with ease. With faster deployment, the productivity of the deployment teams will increase as now, development process will be more focused on the implementation of the features or bugs o be deli...