The document provides an overview of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.6, highlighting key features such as enhanced developer productivity, operational efficiency, and comprehensive security measures. It discusses advancements including sidecar processes for app developers, improved rollback capabilities, and new integrations and updates for various services. Additionally, it mentions the deprecation of older versions and outlines new functionalities for operations management, Kubernetes support, and multi-cloud capabilities.

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Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.6:
A First Look
Jared Ruckle
@jaredruckle
Dan Baskette
@dbbaskette

3. Operational
Efficiency
● Employ 500:1 developer
to operator ratio
● Perform zero-downtime
upgrades
● Runs the same way on
every public/private
cloud
Developer
Productivity
Comprehensive
Security
● Accelerate feedback
loops by improving
delivery velocity
● Focus on applications,
not infrastructure
● Give developers the
tools and frameworks to
build resilient apps
● Adopt a defense-in-
depth approach
● Continuously update
platforms to limit threat
impact
● Apply the 3 R’s → repair,
repave, rotate
● Deploy multi-cloud
resilience patterns
● Run platforms that stays
online under all
circumstances
● Scale up and down, in
and out, through
automation
Multi-Cloud
Success
The Pivotal value proposition.

4. Developer Productivity
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5. Sidecar Processes

6. App developers can run custom sidecar processes in the same container as their
application [beta]
● PAS continues to be the best place
for modern architectures, like the
sidecar pattern.
● Use cases: proxy forwarding,
credentials management, client-side
load balancing, timeouts, and retries.

7. Spinnaker Integration

8. Add Spinnaker to Your PCF Deployment
Open source, multi-cloud
continuous delivery. Releasing
software changes with high
velocity and confidence.
Works with PAS and Enterprise PKS
• Zero-downtime blue/green deployments
• Multi-foundation view of applications
• Manifest-based deployment
• Application management actions and pipeline stages
• Clone stage for promotion of applications across
environments
• Pipeline stages to deploy/destroy services
• Binding applications to services as part of deploy stages
• Artifact framework for triggering and assembling
deployments
• Artifactory and Nexus integrations
• Artifact traceability from build to deployed assets
• Concourse trigger type

9. Application Rollback

10. PAS 2.6
App developers can easily rollback to an app
revision from a specific point in time [beta]
● Quickly adjust if production deployments do not
go as expected.
● What’s a revision? A snapshot of code and
configuration for an application at a specific
point in time.
○ Revisions are automatically created for an
app when new app code or configuration is
deployed.
● In order to rollback an app to a previous revision,
a user creates a deployment for an app that
points to that previous revision.
Developer
Productivity

11. Spring Cloud Data Flow for PCF

12. Spring Cloud Data Flow for PCF 1.5
Open-source SCDF 2.1
Integration with UAA
The tile, and dependent
components, are packaged,
managed and updated by Pivotal
https://dataflow.spring.io
The hub for learning about all things Data Flow
related

13. Config Server 3.0

14. Spring Cloud Services for PCF 3.0 is GA!
Config Server 3.0 includes across-the-board enhancements:
● Removes dependencies on RabbitMQ for PCF and MySQL for PCF tiles.
This simplifies day-to-day management of the SCS tile.
● Improves performance by bundling in a local Git mirror service on each
PCF foundation. Config Server property updates are faster. What’s more,
the auditing and governance of these updates is easier.
● Bundles has an integrated CredHub backend to manage secrets for each
service instance. (We will continue to support Vault.)
PSA: Circuit Breaker Dashboard is discontinued. So for this release, continue to install
and use SCS v2.0 alongside SCS v3.0, so that they can retain their existing Circuit Breaker
Dashboard and Registry Server capabilities.

15. PAS for Windows

16. PAS for Windows 2.6
VCAP user can modify the ODBC
section of the registry settings
● Customers will now have the opportunity to
install ODBC drivers, including Jethro, to talk
to their .NET Apps.
.NET Framework and .NET Core apps
on Windows can now use multiple
custom ports
● Released in PAS 2.5 for .NET Core on Linux;
now it comes to Windows!
● Some workloads listen on ports other than
8080; others listen on multiple ports. For
example:
○ TCP protocols that require multiple
ports
○ Apps that serve web client requests
on one port and offer stats/debug on
another

17. PSA & Important reminders
PASW 2012R2 End of Availability
In line with delivering the best experience for Windows workloads on
PCF, the 2012 R2 stack is being retired. Please talk to your balanced
account team to discuss migration and upgrade strategy.
‘-s windows2016’ is deprecated (as of PASW 2.5).
Use ‘-s windows’ instead. You may run `cf buildpacks` to verify that you
have the `windows` associated stack.

18. Operator Efficiency
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19. MySQL for PCF

20. MySQL for PCF 2.7 to add multi-datacenter replication
(beta)
Enterprise-ready MySQL. Self-
service, on-demand, highly
available.
Coming soon
• Developers to create a leader-follower mysql in
two foundations
• Developers to bind apps in either foundation to
the multi-dc mysql instance
• Developers to trigger a failover to their DR site
in the case of a disaster
• Operators to perform datacenter maintenance
while keeping mysql services up and running
• Galera clustering remains in beta

21. Platform Automation for PCF

22. Platform Automation for PCF: Your Perpetual Upgrade Machine
Building blocks to create a
repeatable and reusable
automated pipeline for upgrading
and installing PCF foundations
Works with Concourse and leverages Concourse
tasks
Compatible with Ops Manager 2.3-2.6
Contains and extends om commands (the Ops
Manager API)
Uses externalized configurations, which enable
reusability across foundations
Can be used to update any supported
infrastructure
Provides how-to guides and example pipelines to
show how to string together tasks

23. RabbitMQ for PCF

24. RabbitMQ for PCF 1.16.4: Across-the-Board Enhancements
Easily connect distributed applications
using with the most widely deployed open
source message broker. Simplify
connections between applications, deploy
more scalable systems, and ship faster.
New plugins for on-demand
instances
Share metrics with PCF Healthwatch
Option to disable service metrics
Simpler TLS setup
Option to enforce TLS
New metrics

25. Pivotal Cloud Cache

26. Pivotal Cloud Cache 1.8: High-performance caching for Spring microservices
An in-memory, key-value store
that performs read/write
operations at blazingly fast
speeds.
● Service instances can now be
backed up and restored via BOSH
Backup & Restore
● PCC now captures more details
about the health of your
deployment
○ Use this enhanced telemetry to
establish SLOs for the throughput
and latency of each cluster.
● Performance improvements
○ Puts are 7% faster
○ Gets are 9% faster
○ Server gets are 250% faster

27. Observability

28. Additional IaaS VM Metrics via the Loggregator Firehose
New tooling simplifies this scenario and eases troubleshooting.
● System Metrics Agent. This is deployed as a collocated job within PAS. It
collects metrics and makes them available over a Prometheus compatible
exposition endpoint.
● Metric Scraper. This component consumes any Prometheus compatible
exposition endpoint, and sends it to Loggregator Agent. It will report VM
metrics for all PAS VMs. This component will run on the Scheduler VM and
use Bosh DNS to discover Bosh deployed VMs.

29. PAS 2.6
App Operators can set up more than 10k syslog
drains [beta]
● PAS 2.6 moves the syslog forwarding from the end of
the Loggregator pipeline (at the adapter) closer to the
point of emission, eliminating the scaling issue.
● The enhancements include an agent that runs on all
VMs between the emitting jobs (containers and
components) and loggregator-agent. This agent
forwards the logs to the configured syslog drains and
additionally to loggregator-agent / pipeline.
● Feature is a beta, off by default.Operator Efficiency

30. PCF HealthWatch 1.6
Operator Efficiency
New UX Capabilities
● Highlight-to-zoom behavior
● Synchronised needles across charts for
easier cross comparison of metrics.
● This is especially helpful when
troubleshooting.

31. PCF Healthwatch 1.6: New UX Capabilities

32. Operations Manager 2.6

33. PCF Ops
Manager 2.6
Ops Manager API users can now call an
endpoint to receive a list of required fields.
● The OM GUI shows what fields are required for
a deployment. Until now, API users didn’t have
an easy way to check what’s required.
● The API response lists out actionable data to
help the operator.
● API docs
○ Pre-deploy-check-for-a-staged-bosh-director
○ pre-deploy-check-for-a-staged-product
Operator
Efficiency

34. Ops Manager 2.6: APIs Calls to Get a List of Required Fields

35. PCF Ops
Manager 2.6
Ops Manager supports specifying
monitor_port for NSX load balancers. Now,
PCF deployments on vSphere can use the OM
NSX load balancer features.
Ops Manager tracks and exposes how long an
individual product takes to deploy. A new
“change log” page shows a historical view of all
your deployments.
Operator
Efficiency

36. Ops Manager 2.6: New Change Log page

37. Comprehensive Security
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38. Concourse for PCF

39. Concourse for PCF 5.2
Continuously integrate and
deliver any change to your
application stack
New Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)
• Concourse Admin
• Team Owners
• Team Members
• Pipeline Operators
• Team View
Parallelized Container/Volume Clean-Up
Integration with Credhub
...and Much More!
• Generic credential caching
• Primitive audit logging
• Pinned resources
• Global Resource
• Sidebar navigation added back
• Icons on pipeline
• Check out new Examples section

40. Enterprise PKS

41. Enterprise PKS 1.4
Production-ready Kubernetes on
any cloud
Kubernetes 1.13.5
Streamlined Install & Config for vSphere
Single Operations Manager for PAS + PKS
Lifecycle Management features
• Pod Security Policies
• Cluster Admin resource quotas.
• Self-service KubeConfig access.
• Backup and restore
• ...and more!
Want early access to PKS 1.5 for Windows
workloads? Contact your balanced account
team.

42. Other Security Features

43. PAS 2.6
Improved security for Gorouter
○ The system now defaults to DNS lookup for resolving user-
provided internal route services. [docs]
○ Previously, Gorouter would prefer any route registered internally.
Security updates to the new Istio-based routing tier
○ The new routing tier (launched as part of PAS 2.5) includes an
updated Envoy version (1.9.1). This version fixes security
vulnerabilities in the previous version.
Comprehensive
Security

44. Multi-Cloud Success
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45. AWS Service Broker for PCF

46. AWS Service Broker for PCF - now GA!
Released
The AWS Service Broker allows native AWS services to be exposed
directly through application platforms that implement the Open
Service Broker API, and provides simple integration of AWS Services
directly within the application platform.

47. PCF Ops
Manager 2.6
Ops Manager now supports 5th generation
AWS instances.
Ops Manager supports ADFS for Azure Stack.
Enables use of PCF on Azure Stack in
disconnected mode.
Multi-Cloud
Success

48. Partner Ecosystem
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49. ISV Ecosystem Momentum Drives Platform Advantage
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MESSAGING SIEM / LOG /
AUDIT
CRM
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