This document discusses Cloud Foundry, an open source platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, test, deploy and scale applications. It provides an overview of key Cloud Foundry concepts like the runtime, services, service brokers, BOSH, and how applications can use services. It also provides examples of Cassandra integration with Cloud Foundry using different plans - a multi-tenant plan suited for development/testing and a single-tenant plan suited for production workloads. Pivotal provides an on-premise version of Cloud Foundry to deploy on various infrastructure like vSphere, AWS, OpenStack.