Cloud Foundry Day at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018

Platform and Container as a Service layers (PaaS/CaaS) enable developers to deliver the functionality of their code to end users in a fast way.

One decision the developer has to make here is which abstraction layer to use for deployment - container or application.

Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry are very popular options to deploy and run Spring Boot Microservices successfully by providing the 2 approaches. But what does it really take to get your application and required backend services up and running successfully on either platform? How many configuration steps are in fact required and where are the hidden pitfalls? How easy do you scale, recover from failure or update the application without downtime? What kind of a difference does the level of abstraction "Bring your own code vs. Bring your own container" mean in the end?

In my role as Cloud consultant and university lecturer for distributed systems I come across these topics a lot and want to share my experience with this talk. I will analyse the differences between the two platforms as seen from a developer's perspective from getting started to running successfully. The comparison is based on a Spring Boot sample app. The talk includes a live demo of those steps.