Note: This post is outdated: while the concepts are still the same, deploying CF has become much more easy over the last years, so don’t use this text to do an actual deployment unless you want to deploy like it’s 2015.
What do you base your selection on when buying some piece of technology? Is it the core functionality, or the added features?
As Kit Colbert aptly stated in his VMworld DevOps program Keynote, customers at this point implicitly assume the core functionality of almost any given product will be alright, and base their choices on the extras:
In my latest post, I tested Lattice.cf, the single VM smaller brother of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). Considering a full installation of PCF has a footprint of about 25 Virtual Machines (VM) requiring a total of over 33Gb RAM, 500+ Gb storage, and some serious CPU power, it’s not hard to see why Lattice is more developer friendly.
In April, Pivotal released Lattice, a platform for hosting cloud native applications which is aimed at being accessible and convenient for developers. However, it’s not just that: it’s also a testbed for the new elastic runtime codename ‘Diego’ which we will likely see incorporated in the next version of Lattice’s big - enterprise ready - brother Pivotal Cloud Foundry in due time.
