Page last updated: Cloud Foundry components include a self-service application execution engine, an automation engine for application deployment and lifecycle management, and a scriptable command line interface (CLI), as well as integration with development tools to ease deployment processes. Cloud Foundry has an open architecture that includes a buildpack mechanism for adding frameworks, an application services interface, and a cloud provider interface. Refer to the descriptions below for more information about Cloud Foundry components. Some descriptions include links to more detailed documentation. Routing Router The routes incoming traffic to the appropriate component, either a Cloud Controller component or a hosted application running on a Diego Cell. The router periodically queries the Diego Bulletin Board System (BBS) to determine which cells and containers each application currently runs on. Using this information, the router recomputes new routing tables based on the IP addresses of each cell virtual machine (VM) and the host-side port numbers for the cell’s containers.

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Authentication OAuth2 Server (UAA) and Login Server The OAuth2 server (the ) and Login Server work together to provide identity management. App Lifecycle Cloud Controller and Diego Brain The (CC) directs the deployment of applications. To push an app to Cloud Foundry, you target the Cloud Controller. The Cloud Controller then directs the Diego Brain through the CC-Bridge components to coordinate individual to stage and run applications. The Cloud Controller also maintain records of, and more. Nsync, BBS, and Cell Reps To keep applications available, cloud deployments must constantly monitor their states and reconcile them with their expected states, starting and stopping processes as required.

The nsync, BBS, and Cell Rep components work together along a chain to keep apps running. At one end is the user. At the other end are the instances of applications running on widely-distributed VMs, which may crash or become unavailable. Here is how the components work together:. nsync receives a message from the Cloud Controller when the user scales an app. It writes the number of instances into a DesiredLRP structure in the Diego BBS database.

BBS uses its convergence process to monitor the DesiredLRP and ActualLRP values. It launches or kills application instances as appropriate to ensure the ActualLRP count matches the DesiredLRP count. Cell Rep monitors the containers and provides the ActualLRP value. App Storage and Execution Blobstore The blobstore is a repository for large binary files, which Github cannot easily manage because Github is designed for code.

The blobstore contains the following:. Application code packages. Buildpacks. Droplets You can configure the blobstore as either an internal server or an external S3 or S3-compatible endpoint. Diego Cell Application instances, application tasks, and staging tasks all run as Garden containers on the Diego Cell VMs. The Diego cell rep component manages the lifecycle of those containers and the processes running in them, reports their status to the Diego BBS, and emits their logs and metrics to.

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Services Service Brokers Applications typically depend on such as databases or third-party SaaS providers. When a developer provisions and binds a service to an application, the service broker for that service is responsible for providing the service instance.

Messaging Consul and BBS Cloud Foundry component VMs communicate with each other internally through HTTP and HTTPS protocols, sharing temporary messages and data stored in Diego’s. The BBS stores more frequently updated and disposable data such as cell and application status, unallocated work, and heartbeat messages. The BBS stores data in MySQL, using the. The route-emitter component uses the NATS protocol to broadcast the latest routing tables to the routers. Metrics and Logging Loggregator The Loggregator (log aggregator) system streams application logs to developers.

Metrics Collector The metrics collector gathers metrics and statistics from the components. Operators can use this information to monitor a Cloud Foundry deployment.

Cloud Foundry is an open source cloud application platform, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.

It is an and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances. This guide presents an overview of how Cloud Foundry works and a discussion of key concepts.

Refer to this guide to learn more about Cloud Foundry fundamentals. General Concepts. Architecture. Diego.