Cloud Foundry Summit North America 2019

As a developer using Cloud Foundry there can still be some unique benefits found in a nearby Kubernetes cluster. Whilst losing some platform features associated with “cf push”, using Kubernetes also loses some platform constraints that enforced good behavior and separation of concerns within Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry users never ran their own MySQL server without any backups or recovery plans; but Kubernetes users can do this with “helm install stable/mysql”. I implore all Kubernetes users who have access to Cloud Foundry to continue using their Cloud Foundry marketplace for production-grade, professionally-managed services.

In this talk, we introduce the Kubernetes Service Catalog, the Open Service Broker API, and a special new service broker that bridges a CF user’s marketplace access into their own Kubernetes cluster.