Cloud Foundry concepts

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Cloud Foundry is an open-source cloud app platform, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and app services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale apps. It is an open-source project and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances. For more information, see Cloud Foundry on GitHub.

This documentation presents an overview of how Cloud Foundry works and a discussion of key concepts.

To learn more about Cloud Foundry fundamentals, see the following topics:

• Cloud Foundry Overview

• Security and Networking

• High Availability

• How Cloud Foundry Manages Apps

• Cloud Foundry Components