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Cloud Foundry for Developers

You're reading from Cloud Foundry for Developers Deploy, manage, and orchestrate cloud-native applications with ease

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788391443

Length 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Ruby

Tools

Cloud Foundry

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Rick Farmer

Rahul Kumar Jain

Wu

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Cloud Foundry Introduction

2. Cloud Foundry CLI and Apps Manager FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Started with PCF Dev

4. Users, Orgs, Spaces, and Roles

5. Architecting and Building Apps for the Cloud

6. Deploying Apps to Cloud Foundry

7. Microservices and Worker Applications

8. Services and Service Brokers

9. Buildpacks

10. Troubleshooting Applications in Cloud Foundry

11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

The cf CLI help command

Perhaps the most useful command when starting out with the cf CLI is this:

$ cf help

This allows you to see the available CLI commands and understand their usage and syntax. The cf CLI enables you to control a wide range of commands that help you deploy and configure your applications on Cloud Foundry.

Finding cf CLI commands

Since there are many cf CLI commands available, it can be a bit overwhelming to find the command you are really interested in at a given point. If you have it available on your system, you can find commands containing cf CLI keywords using grep:

Command-specific help

With the cf CLI, commands can have specific subcommands that you can ask for help on to get more information.

To see the cf CLI syntax for specific commands, add --help or -h after the command, as shown here:

Note

The official documentation for the cf CLI can be found at http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/cf-cli. It includes significant details on the various commands. Additionally, there is an...

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Authors (3)

Rick Farmer

Rick Farmer

Rick Farmer is one of the founders and a leader of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Solutions enterprise consulting and delivery team at Pivotal. Over the last two decades, he established a track record of navigating complex organizational technology and services to deliver breathtaking results for mission-critical initiatives at over 70 of the world's most recognizable companies and government entities. Many of the engagements he has anchored have won various personal and project awards. Rick unlocks innovation and business value using Cloud Foundry to inject enterprise agility into even the most challenging environments by aligning digital transformation, technical and business opportunities. He enjoys speaking at conferences on subjects ranging from Cloud Foundry to Data Science to Digital Transformation to Agility in the Enterprise. Since 1997, Rick has surfed tropical events hitting the Texas Gulf Coast. He has a data science visualization project inducted into the Visualization Hall of Fame at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

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Rahul Kumar Jain

Rahul Kumar Jain

Rahul Kumar has got more than 10 years of experience in the space of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. His expertise lies in the machine learning and deep learning arena. He is known to be a seasoned professional in the area of Business Consulting and Business Problem Solving, fuelled by his proficiency in machine learning and deep learning. He has been associated with organizations such as Mercedes-Benz Research and Development (India), Fidelity Investments, Royal Bank of Scotland among others. He has accumulated a diverse exposure through industries like BFSI, telecom and automobile. Rahul has also got papers published in IIM and IISc Journals.

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Wu

Wu

David Wu has been developing software for over 17 years and has in-depth software and embedded device engineering experience in financial, photographic, medical, science and technology, and cinematic/broadcast industries, from the perspective of both enterprise and product development and for various operating systems such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux. A number of these applications and products have been highly praised, internationally recognized and have won prestigious awards. Wu holds a first class honors in the bachelors of computer science at Monash University and a Ph.D. in computer engineering at RMIT, Australia. In addition to software development, he is also an expert in image processing, compression, video analytics, and forensic imaging. He currently serves as an Advisory Solutions Architect at Pivotal, an agent of change helping transform organizations with Cloud Foundry and build better software. He can be followed on Twitter @_Doc_Dave_.

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