When to Choose Cloud Foundry over Kubernetes

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Kubernetes (K8s) is a fascinating piece of technology. A closer look at Cloud Foundry (CF) will reveal that for several use cases, a Cloud Foundry environment may be preferred over Kubernetes. This article highlights Cloud Foundry for VMs (BOSH), in contrast to CF-4-K8s which is worth a dedicated comparison.

If used as an application developer platform, Kubernetes environments tend to have a different structure than Cloud Foundry environments.

While a Cloud Foundry environment (the staging or production environment, usually contains a single Cloud Foundry installation), a Kubernetes environment often consists of multiple Kubernetes clusters.

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