Our understanding of the possibilities for leveraging both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes extends beyond the obvious. At SUSE, we’ve taken containerization to heart and created a unique distribution of Cloud Foundry that is itself containerized. This makes SUSE Cloud Foundry efficient and lean – running in lightweight containers, not resource-hungry virtual machines, SUSE’s containerized Cloud Foundry implementation consumes a fraction of the memory footprint of other distributions and is faster to recover and scale.
Containerization also means that you can deploy SUSE Cloud Foundry easily, anywhere, using Kubernetes – which is also included in the solution. Once deployed, SUSE Cloud Foundry is managed by Kubernetes, ensuring that your Cloud Foundry environment remains available, automatically scales without downtime, and manages load according to your established criteria.
You can use the included Kubernetes platform to manage other containers as well. So bring your own – backing services for your Cloud Foundry web apps, third party containers that you want to use, custom containers and microservices that you’ve built, or traditional applications that you’ve dropped into containers. You can manage them all with SUSE Cloud Application Platform.