This document provides an overview of Cloud Foundry, an open source platform as a service (PaaS) offering. Some key points:
- Cloud Foundry allows for multi-site application deployment across different cloud providers and on-premises. It supports multiple programming languages, frameworks, and data services.
- Major benefits include easy multi-site deployments, strong support for multiple languages/frameworks, and integration of various data services.
- Cloud Foundry is trademarked by VMware but also available as an open source project. It can be run on-premises or on various cloud providers.
- While popular, the document notes some missing pieces like less active community involvement