Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018

Nowadays, companies are moving to the cloud and redesigning their applications using self-built containers and microservices applications, coupled with the adoption of agile methodologies, to quickly react to their customers’ needs. This is commonly referred to as digital transformation.  

While Cloud Foundry is designed to run microservices applications, Kubernetes is the counterpart for running self-built containers. To utilize the advantage of both platforms, we see organizations combining these two into multi-cloud solutions (with even different infrastructure providers). Consequently, apps are running next to containers and even interacting with each other. But how can you ensure that the interaction between several cloud abstraction levels works as indented? How can you quickly identify the root cause when users complain about a slow website? Does collecting tons of metrics really provide you with the full picture?

In this talk, we cover a monitoring approach for distributed applications running on multi-cloud platforms. Regardless of the cloud stacks used, you need a monitoring solution that understands different cloud abstraction levels for reporting the health of the entire cluster and that helps to identify bottlenecks impairing the fusion of microservices and containers without adapting your application images.

Developing cloud-native applications presents several challenges. How do microservices discover each other? How do you configure them? How can you make them resilient to failure? How can you monitor the health of each microservice?

Spring Cloud Services for Pivotal Cloud Foundry picks up where Spring Cloud leaves off, offering an out-of-the-box experience with service registry, a configuration server, and circuit breaker dashboard services that can be bound to applications deployed in Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Developers can focus on developing applications rather than microservices infrastructure.

In this talk, we will introduce the capabilities provided by Spring Cloud Services and demonstrate how it makes deploying and running microservices on Cloud Foundry simple.

Join us on a space journey with SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry environment. Get an overview of how developers can overcome the force of gravity with SAP Cloud Platform and understand the astrodynamics of a complex business application: multi-tenancy, on-premise connectivity, integrated tooling that works with multiple runtimes, backing services like SAP HANA and running your application on a variety of cloud infrastructure providers. The space journey will end with a demo of our programming model for business applications and a sample business application landing on a Cloud Foundry environment.

This talk will give an overview of VMware’s Networking & Security Solution NSX-T and it’s integration into PKS 1.2. You will get an understanding how the NSX-T CNI-Plugin is working, how it is debugged and how you can take traceflows between Kubernetes Pods. A new feature of PKS 1.2, Network Profiles, will also be presented. 

Store locator is an app many customers run on Cloud Foundry. In this session learn how to build and deploy a store locator app using Spring and services provisioned with the service broker for Google Cloud.

Cloud Application Platform offers efficiency and flexibility for application developers and platform operators. Find out how Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes together can provide the flexibility and productivity required by agile organizations.

The Swisscom Enterprise Application Cloud is a Cloud Foundry based multi-cloud PaaS aimed at enterprise integration. We will first provide an overview of the multi-cloud architecture and then go on to demonstrate the features which Swisscom has built on top and extending the Cloud Foundry API in order to maximize enterprise integration and self-service capabilities. This will include the web application for managing Cloud Foundry based apps as well as the CLI plugin which provides access to the Swisscom-specific features via the command line.

In this Demo Session, IBM will present an in-depth view into IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment. The demo will be use-case centric: We'll show how to self-service provision a CFEE instance in IBM cloud, how to manage authorizations and access to this Cloud Foundry, the possibilities behind service bindings in CFEE, and how the built-in monitoring of CF works, etc.