<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
is	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
,	O
multi-cloud	B-Architecture
application	B-Application
platform	I-Application
as	I-Application
a	I-Application
service	I-Application
(	O
PaaS	B-Application
)	O
governed	O
by	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
,	O
a	O
501(c )	O
(	O
6	O
)	O
organization	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
software	O
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
VMware	O
,	O
transferred	O
to	O
Pivotal	O
Software	O
(	O
a	O
joint	O
venture	O
by	O
EMC	O
,	O
VMware	O
and	O
General	O
Electric	O
)	O
,	O
who	O
then	O
transferred	O
the	O
software	O
to	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
upon	O
its	O
inception	O
in	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Originally	O
conceived	O
in	O
2009	O
,	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
was	O
designed	O
and	O
developed	O
by	O
a	O
small	O
team	O
at	O
VMware	O
led	O
by	O
Derek	O
Collison	O
and	O
was	O
originally	O
called	O
Project	O
B29	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
time	O
,	O
a	O
different	O
PaaS	B-Application
project	O
written	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
for	O
Amazon	B-General_Concept
EC2	I-General_Concept
used	O
the	O
name	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
founded	O
by	O
Chris	O
Richardson	O
in	O
2008	O
and	O
acquired	O
by	O
SpringSource	B-Application
in	O
2009	O
,	O
the	O
same	O
year	O
VMware	O
acquired	O
SpringSource	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
current	O
project	O
is	O
unrelated	O
to	O
the	O
project	O
under	O
SpringSource	B-Application
,	O
but	O
the	O
name	O
was	O
adopted	O
when	O
the	O
original	O
SpringSource	B-Application
project	O
ended	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
announcement	O
of	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
took	O
place	O
in	O
April	O
2011	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
year	O
later	O
,	O
in	O
April	O
2012	O
,	O
BOSH	B-General_Concept
,	O
an	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
tool	O
chain	O
for	O
release	O
engineering	O
,	O
deployment	O
,	O
and	O
life-cycle	O
management	O
of	O
large	O
scale	O
distributed	O
services	O
,	O
was	O
publicly	O
launched	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2013	O
,	O
Pivotal	O
was	O
created	O
from	O
EMC	O
and	O
VMware	O
,	O
to	O
market	O
assets	O
including	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
,	O
RabbitMQ	B-Application
and	O
Spring	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
2015	O
,	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
was	O
created	O
as	O
an	O
independent	O
not-for-profit	O
501(c )	O
(	O
6	O
)	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
Foundation	I-Operating_System
Collaborative	O
Project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Following	O
the	O
creation	O
of	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
,	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
software	O
(	O
source	O
code	O
and	O
all	O
associated	O
trademarks	O
)	O
was	O
transferred	O
to	O
be	O
held	O
by	O
the	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
foundation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
primarily	O
written	O
in	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
Go	B-Application
and	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
foundation	O
serves	O
as	O
a	O
neutral	O
party	O
holding	O
all	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
intellectual	O
property	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Once	O
intellectual	O
property	O
is	O
contributed	O
to	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
,	O
it	O
becomes	O
property	O
of	O
the	O
Foundation	O
and	O
these	O
assets	O
cannot	O
be	O
transferred	O
to	O
for-profit	O
entities	O
,	O
as	O
per	O
the	O
laws	O
governing	O
501(c )	O
(	O
6	O
)	O
organizations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
is	O
promoted	O
for	O
continuous	O
delivery	O
as	O
it	O
supports	O
the	O
full	O
application	O
development	O
lifecycle	O
,	O
from	O
initial	O
development	O
through	O
all	O
testing	O
stages	O
to	O
deployment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
’s	O
container-based	O
architecture	O
runs	O
apps	O
in	O
any	O
programming	O
language	O
over	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
cloud	B-Architecture
service	I-Architecture
providers	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
multi-cloud	B-Architecture
environment	O
allows	O
developers	O
to	O
use	O
the	O
cloud	O
platform	O
that	O
suits	O
specific	O
application	O
workloads	O
and	O
move	O
those	O
workloads	O
as	O
necessary	O
within	O
minutes	O
with	O
no	O
changes	O
to	O
the	O
application	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Applications	O
deployed	O
to	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
access	O
external	O
resources	O
via	O
an	O
Open	O
Service	O
Broker	O
API	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
launched	O
in	O
December	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
allows	O
administrators	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
marketplace	O
of	O
services	O
,	O
from	O
which	O
users	O
can	O
provision	O
these	O
services	O
on-demand	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
an	O
application	O
is	O
pushed	O
to	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
the	O
services	O
it	O
needs	O
may	O
also	O
be	O
specified	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
development	O
of	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
is	O
supported	O
by	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
,	O
through	O
the	O
governance	O
process	O
agreed	O
to	O
by	O
its	O
members	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
source	O
code	O
is	O
under	O
an	O
Apache	B-Application
License	I-Application
2.0	I-Application
.	O
and	O
contributions	O
are	O
made	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
contributors	O
 '	O
licenses	O
for	O
individuals	O
and	O
corporations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Born	O
on	O
a	O
container-based	O
architecture	O
,	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
is	O
able	O
to	O
support	O
innovation	O
in	O
containers	B-Application
through	O
collaboration	O
with	O
other	O
projects	O
and	O
standards	O
such	O
as	O
Open	B-Application
Container	I-Application
Initiative	I-Application
(	O
OCI	O
)	O
and	O
Container	B-Application
Network	O
Interface	O
(	O
CNI	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
buildpack	O
lifecycle	O
,	O
applications	O
packaged	O
as	O
Docker	B-Language
images	I-Language
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
using	O
the	O
Docker	B-Language
lifecycle	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Application	O
Runtime	O
can	O
be	O
deployed	O
to	O
many	O
different	O
infrastructure	O
providers	O
,	O
including	O
VMware	O
’s	O
vSphere	O
,	O
OpenStack	B-Application
,	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
,	O
IBM	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
,	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
,	O
SAP	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
,	O
Alibaba	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
and	O
others	O
using	O
the	O
Cloud	O
Provider	O
Interface	O
(	O
CPI	O
)	O
capability	O
of	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
BOSH	B-General_Concept
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
is	O
deprecated	O
on	O
IBM	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
as	O
of	O
October	O
2022	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
also	O
possible	O
to	O
install	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
using	O
a	O
BOSH-Lite	O
Vagrant	B-Application
virtual	O
machine	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
platform	O
is	O
available	O
from	O
either	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
as	O
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
or	O
from	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
commercial	O
providers	O
as	O
either	O
a	O
software	O
product	O
or	O
delivered	O
as	O
a	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
is	O
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
,	O
and	O
hence	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
available	O
to	O
anyone	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Deploying	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
involves	O
interfacing	O
with	O
the	O
underlying	O
infrastructure	O
using	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
BOSH	B-General_Concept
deployment	O
system	O
,	O
another	O
open-source	B-Application
tool	O
governed	O
by	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2015	O
,	O
the	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Foundation	O
announced	O
the	O
“	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
PaaS	B-Application
Certification	O
program	O
”	O
which	O
delineated	O
criteria	O
to	O
be	O
considered	O
a	O
Cloud	B-General_Concept
Foundry	I-General_Concept
Certified	O
Provider	O
.	O
</s>
