Platform as a service (PaaS)
PaaS is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop and deploy applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the computing infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.
- Cloud Foundry Open Source Software (OSS) is a cloud computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) originally developed by VMware and now owned by Pivotal Software.
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Pivotal CF). A commercial product available from Pivotal. It provides tools for deploying apps to the cloud not included in the OSS product.
- Pivotal Web Services (PWS). An instance of Pivotal Cloud Foundry hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
UO-CIT on Pivotal Web Services
As a pilot for an educational use policy, PWS has created a UO-CIT organization for us, and provisioned it with resources and services (MongoDB, Redis, etc.).
How to join the UO-CIT organization
- PWS will be sending you an invitation to join the org by email at your UO address.
- The message body contains an Accept this Invitation link.
- Follow the link.
- This will open a Sign-in page where you will be assigned a randomly-generated user-name, and prompted to create a password.
(If you are asked to create a user-name, enter your DuckID user name. If your DuckID user name is already taken, add “cit” to the end of it.
Example: user name susanq is taken.
==> susanqCIT, or susanq-cit, or susanq-CIT - Take a screenshot of this page so you can remember your user-name.
- Sign in with your new account.
This will connect you to your PWS dashboard. Learning how to navigate the dashboard will be the topic of your Week 9 Lab.
Next: Getting Started with PWS/CF
The cf Command Line Interface (cf CLI) is your primary tool for deploying and managing your applications.