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STACKIT Cloud Foundry is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, deploy, and scale applications effortlessly. It abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing you to focus on your code.
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Basics

Understand the basic working principles of Cloud Foundry and dive into the terminology and concepts.

Getting started

Deploy your first application on Cloud Foundry in minutes.

How-tos

Utilize various tools such as the Cloud Foundry CLI and Terraform to manage your applications effectively.

Release notes

Discover what's new, including added features, bug fixes and deprecation notices.

FAQ

Read the list of frequently asked questions to get an idea of what other users are asking themselves. Maybe there is also an answer for you?

Features

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Cloud Foundry offers a range of features to simplify application development and deployment:

  • Multi-language support: Run applications written in various programming languages such as Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and more.
  • Auto-scaling: Automatically adjust the number of application instances based on traffic and resource usage.
  • Service marketplace: Access a wide range of managed services, including databases, messaging systems, and caching solutions, to enhance your applications.
  • Health management: Monitor application health and automatically restart or replace instances that are not performing well.
  • Zero-downtime deployments: Update applications without downtime, ensuring continuous availability for users.

Use cases

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Popular use cases for Cloud Foundry are the following:

  • Web applications: Deploy and scale web applications quickly, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Microservices architecture: Build and manage microservices-based applications, allowing for independent development and scaling of individual components.
  • API development: Create and deploy APIs that can be consumed by various clients, including web and mobile applications.
  • Data processing: Run data processing applications that require scalability and reliability, such as ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) jobs or real-time data analytics.

Latest updates

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    STACKIT Cloud Foundry portal update

    The STACKIT Cloud Foundry Portal got a major update, now offering intuitive Cloud Foundry organisation- and space-management, as documented here.

    STACKIT project owners can now change Cloud Foundry organisation quotas and assign the Cloud Foundry organisation manager role from the STACKIT Portal.

    Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.

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    Update to idle connection timeout for exposed STACKIT Data Services

    We would like to inform you that the 28.07.25 version has been updated. This change affects the idle connection timeout for the following services: MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, LogMe2, and OpenSearch. Previously set to several days, the timeout is now reduced to 60 minutes.

    Note: This change applies only to the above-mentioned Data Services and does not affect their Cloud Foundry counterparts ordered through the Cloud Foundry Marketplace.

    Key Benefits:

    • Optimised Resource Management: The new timeout setting helps manage system resources more effectively by reducing inactive connections.
    • Increased Stability: Users will experience fewer connection resets and timeouts, resulting in a more stable and reliable service.

    This change is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance performance and reliability.

    Our Help Center is always at your disposal if you have any questions.

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    STACKIT Cloud Foundry supports 32 GB RAM instances and got some other changes

    We are happy to announce that STACKIT Cloud Foundry now supports 32 GB RAM instances as documented here.

    There are also some other changes to note:

    • Please watch out when updating existing Spring Boot Java apps from now on, because the deprecated Spring Cloud Connector and Spring Auto Reconfiguration have been removed in favor of the java-cfenv library with Spring Boot Version 3. Older Spring Boot versions are not affected now, but we prepared all the details including some emergency fallback options on this information page.
    • For all apps it is recommended to use the latest buildpack versions that we provide with the platform, as older community buildpacks may use outdated container base images like the linuxfs3 stack, which will be removed from the platform beginning April 2024. More details on this are given on this information page.
    • Focussing on security, we also disable SSH access to newly created apps by default in April 2024, which then can be re-enabled with the CLI on-demand.
    • Please visit our updated FAQ to make sure you don’t miss important information on how to react.

Cloud Foundry release notes