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Cloud Foundry can already manage Windows applications and has been doing so for some time now. There's also a .NET Core buildpack for those who are OK with usin
by jacques_chester 10y ago
Cloud Foundry can already manage Windows applications and has been doing so for some time now. There's also a .NET Core buildpack for those who are OK with using it.
The underlying components (Garden and Diego) were written with this possibility in mind, long before Microsoft themselves made any move to simplify containerisation on their platform. It'll definitely become easier in newer versions of Windows as Microsoft expose more APIs to implementors.
But lots of people won't move in a hurry, so backwards compatibility is done the hard way. I don't know much about the hard way.
Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, the major donor of engineering on Cloud Foundry. By coincidence in the same office as the Greenhouse team ("Garden on Windows", geddit?).
- snuxoll 10y agoI looked at CloudFoundry as an option, but I was underwhelmed at the platform seeming like it was more designed for companies to provide their own PaaS with it as a base for orchestration than it being a ready-to-go solution. It's great that Diego can support Windows apps, but CloudFoundry doesn't look like a great solution for a team like ours who just wants a set of nice tooling to deploy and manage our applications without having to jump to the CLI for everything (I may be comfortable with this, but I do work in a primarily .Net shop).