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Pivotal Cloud Foundry pros and cons

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PROS

Pivotal Cloud Foundry offers excellent scalability and good auto-scaling capabilities.
It has robust stability and resilience, particularly beneficial for Java and .NET applications.
Ease of deployment and management of microservices are highly valued features.
It integrates well with CI/CD pipelines and supports continuous integration and delivery.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment.

CONS

In the next release, they should offer additional applications for the databases and improve the deployment experience.
It is not straightforward to set up, and every step is a hurdle without proper resources or solutions available.
The scalability is limited when installed on virtual machines, with challenges in scaling beyond application level compared to platforms like Amazon.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve on the technology complexity and enhance documentation, including more use case examples.
There is a need for more security features, larger service offerings, and support for canary deployment instead of just blue-green deployment.
 

Pivotal Cloud Foundry Pros review quotes

reviewer2263239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 23, 2023
I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.
Vasundhara  Joshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo
May 9, 2023
It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET.
Gaurav Babbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at Natwest
May 2, 2023
The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution.
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Principal Engineer at Citi
Dec 15, 2022
It supports CI/CD, and is integrated with the CI/CD very well.
Stephen  Hack - PeerSpot reviewer
Web App developer at FDIC
Sep 16, 2022
The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily.
reviewer1320987 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 29, 2022
The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use.
Igor Khalitov - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/Full Stack Software Engineer at Maraphonic, Inc.
May 11, 2022
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance.
reviewer1280193 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant to Vice President at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Mar 9, 2023
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very robust, especially for building Java.
it_user1430724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 21, 2020
The most valuable features are the monitoring and the deployment is easier.
Venu Sunkara - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead System Operation Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 14, 2022
We find its stability and scalability valuable.
 

Pivotal Cloud Foundry Cons review quotes

reviewer2263239 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Aug 23, 2023
Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice.
Vasundhara  Joshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Wells Fargo
May 9, 2023
Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Gaurav Babbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Engineer at Natwest
May 2, 2023
Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features.
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Principal Engineer at Citi
Dec 15, 2022
I'd like to see a larger service offering.
Stephen  Hack - PeerSpot reviewer
Web App developer at FDIC
Sep 16, 2022
Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve the documentation. They are good, but they could improve more. Additionally, it would be beneficial if there were more use case examples.
reviewer1320987 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jul 29, 2022
The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use.
Igor Khalitov - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/Full Stack Software Engineer at Maraphonic, Inc.
May 11, 2022
Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications.
reviewer1280193 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant to Vice President at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Mar 9, 2023
There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
it_user1430724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oct 21, 2020
In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools.
Venu Sunkara - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead System Operation Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 14, 2022
There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features.