#cloud-foundry — Public Fediverse posts
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⚠️ CVE-2026-41011 (HIGH, 8.7): OS command injection in Cloud Foundry BOSH < v282.1.12 lets attackers execute arbitrary commands via package name input. Upgrade ASAP! Details: https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2026-41011-cwe-78-improper-neutralization-of-s-1c5e8b82 #OffSeq #CloudFoundry #Infosec
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CVE-2026-40965 - CRITICAL Cryptographic Key Exposure in Cloud Foundry UAA. EC private keys leaked via /token_keys endpoint. CVSS 10.0. UNPATCHED. Update or disable EC keys immediately. #CVE #CloudFoundry #infosec
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Join Daniel Schlachter and me in the chat for the premiere of part 2 of our Expert Session series on CAP Node.js in just over 1 hour from now. Bring your curiosity, questions and opinions, all welcome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0oArGkerVk #SAPCAP #CloudFoundry
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Join Daniel Schlachter and me in the chat for the premiere of part 2 of our Expert Session series on CAP Node.js in just over 1 hour from now. Bring your curiosity, questions and opinions, all welcome! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0oArGkerVk #SAPCAP #CloudFoundry
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From Boris Zarske I've learned about the option to configure #SAPBTP #CICD Service to use X.509 Client Certificates to authenticate to #CloudFoundry https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/deployments-without-passwords-with-sap-continuous-integration-and-delivery/ba-p/14089250 Please support the influencing request to add this also to SAP Cloud Transport Managment #CTMS https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/360815 (S-User required)
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From Boris Zarske I've learned about the option to configure #SAPBTP #CICD Service to use X.509 Client Certificates to authenticate to #CloudFoundry https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/deployments-without-passwords-with-sap-continuous-integration-and-delivery/ba-p/14089250 Please support the influencing request to add this also to SAP Cloud Transport Managment #CTMS https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/360815 (S-User required)
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@ceedee666 @Mianbsp @htammen the #SAP #BTP Trial with #CloudFoundry is back.
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@ceedee666 @Mianbsp @htammen the #SAP #BTP Trial with #CloudFoundry is back.
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Why does #SAP make it so hard to learn and/or teach its technology? 🤯
Since two weeks the #cloudfoundry environment on the #BTP trail is not working anymore. That means e.g. no deployment of #SAPCAP apps to the BTP trial anymore.
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Why does #SAP make it so hard to learn and/or teach its technology? 🤯
Since two weeks the #cloudfoundry environment on the #BTP trail is not working anymore. That means e.g. no deployment of #SAPCAP apps to the BTP trial anymore.
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Thirteen years ago yesterday, I was speaking at the first meeting of the London Platform-as-a-Service User Group (now, the London Platform User Group, aka LOPUG). I’d joined VMware a few weeks before, and this was one of my earliest speaking gigs telling the story about the open source Cloud Foundry platform.
At least I archived the Tweet about it, because apparently I didn’t write a blog post, and I can’t find the slides from that event. Look, historical proof! ⬆
Yesterday, the meetup celebrated 13 years since that first edition!
The plan was to bring together the original presenters and hosts as a panel to revisit the topics and talk about what had happened in the industry and in our careers in the meantime. Unfortunately, the original host (Russ) was unable to join at the last minute, but Tareq and I were the original speakers, and were both available for the panel, moderated by my friend Paula Kennedy.
I wrote a short thread on Mastodon with some thoughts – here’s a slightly longer version.
At #Accurx in London for a panel revisiting the first edition of the London Platform User Group (LOPUG) – I was a speaker at the first event, 13 years ago (in my #CloudFoundry days), and on the panel this evening! https://meetu.ps/e/NSspR/vXk8/i
— Andy Piper (@andypiper) 2025-05-14T17:42:31.745Z
The evening was a trip down memory lane, and a thought-provoking look at how much has changed – and what might be coming next. Thirteen years ago, my focus was on telling the Cloud Foundry story, advocating for private and hybrid cloud solutions based on open source to VMware (later Pivotal) customers across the UK, Europe, and beyond. Platform as a Service (PaaS) was the buzzword, and we were excited about its potential.
A couple of years after the original event, I joined Twitter. Now that I’m a few years on from that period of my life, I actually had to go back and remind myself of the internal Twitter cloud stack of Apache Mesos and Aurora etc. There’s a good piece about that (featuring my buddy Chris Anisczyk from back in the day!) if you want to take the same diversion I did ahead of the meetup last night!
Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress 🤷🏻
During the panel, I was asked about future predictions. My attention turned towards the growing push for digital sovereignty, particularly in Europe, and the emergence of concepts like the EuroStack. It’s a clear indication of a shift in priorities, and a desire for greater control over data and digital infrastructure.
It was an interesting moment of self-reflection too. I realized how my own world view has evolved, broadening from my primary focus on enterprise software stacks in my IBM and VMware days, to encompass a wider social perspective which connects to my work with social networks, and more evolved views about politics and economics in general.
Later in the evening, there was a brief discussion about whether current global events and trends are steering us towards a more complex business and technical environment. The suggestion was that an increased need for local negotiations and agreements could potentially slow everything down. This seems very likely, to me – the consequence of tariffs, breaches of trust, and protectionist behaviours from those looking to control their own domains, as opposed to those who champion collaboration and shared respect as drivers of progress.
And you know what? I find myself thinking that slowing things down might not necessarily be a bad thing. Perhaps a more deliberate pace is exactly what’s needed right now.
It was a really engaging evening, and it’s nice to see LOPUG still going strong. Thanks to Paula and the team for inviting me to join the panel – this was a lot of fun to come back to.
(shout out to Daniel Bryant for the photo I’m in above, thanks Daniel!)
https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/15/revisiting-the-clouds/
#100DaysToOffload #aurora #cloudFoundry #Computing #digitalSovereignty #economics #enterprise #EuroStack #events #kubernetes #London #lopug #meetup #mesos #panel #pivotal #politics #regulation #society #talks #Technology #Twitter #vmware
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Thirteen years ago yesterday, I was speaking at the first meeting of the London Platform-as-a-Service User Group (now, the London Platform User Group, aka LOPUG). I’d joined VMware a few weeks before, and this was one of my earliest speaking gigs telling the story about the open source Cloud Foundry platform.
At least I archived the Tweet about it, because apparently I didn’t write a blog post, and I can’t find the slides from that event. Look, historical proof! ⬆
Yesterday, the meetup celebrated 13 years since that first edition!
The plan was to bring together the original presenters and hosts as a panel to revisit the topics and talk about what had happened in the industry and in our careers in the meantime. Unfortunately, the original host (Russ) was unable to join at the last minute, but Tareq and I were the original speakers, and were both available for the panel, moderated by my friend Paula Kennedy.
I wrote a short thread on Mastodon with some thoughts – here’s a slightly longer version.
At #Accurx in London for a panel revisiting the first edition of the London Platform User Group (LOPUG) – I was a speaker at the first event, 13 years ago (in my #CloudFoundry days), and on the panel this evening! https://meetu.ps/e/NSspR/vXk8/i
— Andy Piper (@andypiper) 2025-05-14T17:42:31.745Z
The evening was a trip down memory lane, and a thought-provoking look at how much has changed – and what might be coming next. Thirteen years ago, my focus was on telling the Cloud Foundry story, advocating for private and hybrid cloud solutions based on open source to VMware (later Pivotal) customers across the UK, Europe, and beyond. Platform as a Service (PaaS) was the buzzword, and we were excited about its potential.
A couple of years after the original event, I joined Twitter. Now that I’m a few years on from that period of my life, I actually had to go back and remind myself of the internal Twitter cloud stack of Apache Mesos and Aurora etc. There’s a good piece about that (featuring my buddy Chris Anisczyk from back in the day!) if you want to take the same diversion I did ahead of the meetup last night!
Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress 🤷🏻
During the panel, I was asked about future predictions. My attention turned towards the growing push for digital sovereignty, particularly in Europe, and the emergence of concepts like the EuroStack. It’s a clear indication of a shift in priorities, and a desire for greater control over data and digital infrastructure.
It was an interesting moment of self-reflection too. I realized how my own world view has evolved, broadening from my primary focus on enterprise software stacks in my IBM and VMware days, to encompass a wider social perspective which connects to my work with social networks, and more evolved views about politics and economics in general.
Later in the evening, there was a brief discussion about whether current global events and trends are steering us towards a more complex business and technical environment. The suggestion was that an increased need for local negotiations and agreements could potentially slow everything down. This seems very likely, to me – the consequence of tariffs, breaches of trust, and protectionist behaviours from those looking to control their own domains, as opposed to those who champion collaboration and shared respect as drivers of progress.
And you know what? I find myself thinking that slowing things down might not necessarily be a bad thing. Perhaps a more deliberate pace is exactly what’s needed right now.
It was a really engaging evening, and it’s nice to see LOPUG still going strong. Thanks to Paula and the team for inviting me to join the panel – this was a lot of fun to come back to.
(shout out to Daniel Bryant for the photo I’m in above, thanks Daniel!)
https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/15/revisiting-the-clouds/
#100DaysToOffload #aurora #cloudFoundry #Computing #digitalSovereignty #economics #enterprise #EuroStack #events #kubernetes #London #lopug #meetup #mesos #panel #pivotal #politics #regulation #society #talks #Technology #Twitter #vmware
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This was a fascinating evening.
13 years ago I’d recently started telling the #CloudFoundry story about private / hybrid cloud based on open source, to VMware/Pivotal customers in the UK and Europe (and elsewhere in the world, but I was the CF Developer Advocate in region).
In the meantime, Kubernetes and other things basically ate the PaaS market.
Tonight, asked for predictions for the future, I was talking about the push for #DigitalSovereignty (and now, the #EuroStack) in Europe.
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This was a fascinating evening.
13 years ago I’d recently started telling the #CloudFoundry story about private / hybrid cloud based on open source, to VMware/Pivotal customers in the UK and Europe (and elsewhere in the world, but I was the CF Developer Advocate in region).
In the meantime, Kubernetes and other things basically ate the PaaS market.
Tonight, asked for predictions for the future, I was talking about the push for #DigitalSovereignty (and now, the #EuroStack) in Europe.
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At #Accurx in London for a panel revisiting the first edition of the London Platform User Group (LOPUG) - I was a speaker at the first event, 13 years ago (in my #CloudFoundry days), and on the panel this evening! https://meetu.ps/e/NSspR/vXk8/i
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At #Accurx in London for a panel revisiting the first edition of the London Platform User Group (LOPUG) - I was a speaker at the first event, 13 years ago (in my #CloudFoundry days), and on the panel this evening! https://meetu.ps/e/NSspR/vXk8/i
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Looking to integrate Korifi with your Go applications? ✨ I've published a blog post that walks you through connecting to Korifi on a Kind cluster. It includes authentication tips and code examples for getting started. Check it out here: https://gciavarrini.github.io/blog/go_korifi/
#korifi #cloudfoundry #blog #go #golang #kubernetes #Tech #technology
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Korifi 0.14.0 has been released! 😻
Overall compatibility with the Cloud Foundry V3 API has been improved. Experimental UAA authentication represents another significant step forward. While support for managed services remains experimental, it has undergone numerous improvements.
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🚀 Turn frustration into fun! I channeled my annoyance into a handy #Terraform script for setting up a fresh #SAP #BTP account.
What does it do?
✅ Creates a subaccount
🟡 Activates #CloudFoundry & sets up a space
✅ Subscribes to Business Application Studio, #HANA Cloud, and Integration Suite
❌ Assigns all the necessary authorizationsOnce finished, this should simplify the (re)creation of #SAP #BTP trial accounts significantly!
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🚀 Turn frustration into fun! I channeled my annoyance into a handy #Terraform script for setting up a fresh #SAP #BTP account.
What does it do?
✅ Creates a subaccount
🟡 Activates #CloudFoundry & sets up a space
✅ Subscribes to Business Application Studio, #HANA Cloud, and Integration Suite
❌ Assigns all the necessary authorizationsOnce finished, this should simplify the (re)creation of #SAP #BTP trial accounts significantly!
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Korifi 0.13.0 has been released!
#kubernetes #korifi #cloudfoundry
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If you'd like any of these, er, "classic" #tech #books for just the price of posting, let me know. I think they'd be about £3 to send inside the UK, each. Please only bother if you'd personally like to own it/them - if you'd just plan to flip them then it really wouldn't be worth your while!! #FreeBooks #Free #GiveAway #Techbooks #SecondHandBooks #bookstodon #Devops #development #Developers #sre #sysadmin #golang #cucumber #rspec #cloudfoundry #internet #protocols #programming #PleaseBoost
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If you'd like any of these, er, "classic" #tech #books for just the price of posting, let me know. I think they'd be about £3 to send inside the UK, each. Please only bother if you'd personally like to own it/them - if you'd just plan to flip them then it really wouldn't be worth your while!! #FreeBooks #Free #GiveAway #Techbooks #SecondHandBooks #bookstodon #Devops #development #Developers #sre #sysadmin #golang #cucumber #rspec #cloudfoundry #internet #protocols #programming #PleaseBoost
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Korifi 0.12.0 has been released!
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My work on the v3/info endpoint for #Korifi #CloudFoundry has been merged https://github.com/cloudfoundry/korifi/pull/3248
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My initial work towards a ‘v3/info’ endpoint in #Korifi has been merged 🏆 #CloudFoundry #Kubernetes https://github.com/cloudfoundry/korifi/pull/3239
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I think I may have bumped my head recently because I can't stop writing about CAP, design time vs runtime, and deployment to Cloud Foundry. Three related posts, available on my blog now:
Share & enjoy!
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I think I may have bumped my head recently because I can't stop writing about CAP, design time vs runtime, and deployment to Cloud Foundry. Three related posts, available on my blog now:
Share & enjoy!
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Please support this new #SAPCAP Influencing request: Support cds add html5-repo also for #CloudFoundry https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/311606 (#SAP S-User required)
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Please support this new #SAPCAP Influencing request: Support cds add html5-repo also for #CloudFoundry https://influence.sap.com/sap/ino/#/idea/311606 (#SAP S-User required)
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Anyone using #CloudFoundry to deploy #PHP anywhere?
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/php/gsg-php-usage.html
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Anyone using #CloudFoundry to deploy #PHP anywhere?
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/buildpacks/php/gsg-php-usage.html
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@drajt in BTP #cloudfoundry you could try the apt buildpack to get a environment with the needed tools. Provide the API using CAP and call it from #ABAP using HTTPS.
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@drajt in BTP #cloudfoundry you could try the apt buildpack to get a environment with the needed tools. Provide the API using CAP and call it from #ABAP using HTTPS.
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@anthonydahanne Yes, of course #paketo #buildpacks is great. I too have been using Buildpacks since the #CloudFoundry days.
However, with Buildpacks, all processes are transparent, or hidden, to the some developer, so I thought it might not be suitable for some cases where you want to do detailed customization. -
@anthonydahanne Yes, of course #paketo #buildpacks is great. I too have been using Buildpacks since the #CloudFoundry days.
However, with Buildpacks, all processes are transparent, or hidden, to the some developer, so I thought it might not be suitable for some cases where you want to do detailed customization. -
Time flies. Today, I looked up an old blog post: https://blog.4loeser.net/2014/06/some-fun-with-bluemix-cloud-foundry.html It is about #IBMCloud and is from 2014, nine years ago. #Bluemix #Python #weather #cloudfoundry
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BOSH was designed and built with influence by Google's Borg.
BOSH == Borg++
(r+1=s, g+1=h).I feel like I haven't uttered this passage in a long time😉
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RT @tehkuhnz
Check my new blog to see how the team at @VMwareTanzu improved deployment times with #VMwareTanzu Operations Manager 3.0! #PlatformEngineers using #VMware Tanzu Application Service should check this out! #CloudFoundry @cloudfoundry https://dy.si/Mf3dGo
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BOSH was designed and built with influence by Google's Borg.
BOSH == Borg++
(r+1=s, g+1=h).I feel like I haven't uttered this passage in a long time😉
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RT @tehkuhnz
Check my new blog to see how the team at @VMwareTanzu improved deployment times with #VMwareTanzu Operations Manager 3.0! #PlatformEngineers using #VMware Tanzu Application Service should check this out! #CloudFoundry @cloudfoundry https://dy.si/Mf3dGo
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The year 2022 started with "cf push" and ended with "cf push".
Let's have fun "cf push" again in 2023🚀
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RT @tehkuhnz
2022 Wrapped #CloudFoundry Edition: Check out all the great work the @VMwareTanzu team has accomplished with #VMware Tanzu Application Service and the @cloudfoundry ecosystem this year! https://dy.si/Rd5x
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The year 2022 started with "cf push" and ended with "cf push".
Let's have fun "cf push" again in 2023🚀
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RT @tehkuhnz
2022 Wrapped #CloudFoundry Edition: Check out all the great work the @VMwareTanzu team has accomplished with #VMware Tanzu Application Service and the @cloudfoundry ecosystem this year! https://dy.si/Rd5x
https://twitter.com/tehkuhnz/status/1603119079425859584 -
$cf push❣️
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RT @tehkuhnz
Final Day of #CloudFoundryDay Celebration! I present to you @ramiyengar's blog on @cloudfoundry day! It's great to see all the work in the #cloudfoundry community this past year! Super proud of all my colleagues from @VMwareTanzu who have contributed! https://dy.si/VTjv4
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$cf push❣️
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RT @tehkuhnz
Final Day of #CloudFoundryDay Celebration! I present to you @ramiyengar's blog on @cloudfoundry day! It's great to see all the work in the #cloudfoundry community this past year! Super proud of all my colleagues from @VMwareTanzu who have contributed! https://dy.si/VTjv4
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@h_neumann @dtometzki in #SAPBTP #CloudFoundry you pay 100 €/Month. With #Kyma you follow https://blogs.sap.com/2022/11/01/public-custom-domains-easy-with-sap-btp-kyma-runtime./ and get it for 50 € Cent / Month when using #Azure DNS.
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@h_neumann @dtometzki in #SAPBTP #CloudFoundry you pay 100 €/Month. With #Kyma you follow https://blogs.sap.com/2022/11/01/public-custom-domains-easy-with-sap-btp-kyma-runtime./ and get it for 50 € Cent / Month when using #Azure DNS.
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I'm deleting all of my tweets in batches of 1000, and I'm glancing through them briefly just to reminisce.
One thing that's really been nice is seeing a little slice of #cloudfoundry oral history.
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heise-Angebot: Mit dem Cloud Native Day die Cloud-Transformation meistern
Beim fünften Thementag von Continuous Delivery und ContainerConf dreht sich alles um Tools, Techniken und Plattformkonzepte für Cloud-native Betriebsmodelle.
Mit dem Cloud Native Day die Cloud-Transformation meistern -
Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes - In a normal year, the Cloud Foundry project would be hosting its annual European Summit in Dublin th... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CHmFjU1xP3I/ #cloudnativecomputingfoundation #cloudinfrastructure #cloudcomputing #chipchilders #cloudfoundry #abbykearns #kubernetes #dublin #cloud #tc
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SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation - SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Jtnnz2EI_t8/ #cloudfoundryfoundation #cloudinfrastructure #cloudcomputing #chipchilders #cloudfoundry #freesoftware #enterprise #kubernetes #developer #computing #suse
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In late 2011, I was contacted by a very charming, smart and persuasive French gentleman who spoke of clouds, platform-as-a-service, and polyglot programming. It took him and his team a couple of months to get me thinking seriously about a career change, after 10 great years at IBM. I’d spent that period with “Big Blue” coding in Java and C, and primarily focused on enterprise application servers, message queueing, and integration – and yet the lure of how easy
vmc push[1] made it for me to deploy and scale an app was astounding! Should I make the transition to a crazy new world? Over Christmas that year, I decided it would be a good thing to get in on this hot new technology and join VMware as Developer Advocate on the Cloud Foundry team. I joined the team early in 2012.The Cloud Foundry adventure has been amazing. The day after I joined the team, the project celebrated its first anniversary, and we announced the BOSH continuous deployment tool; I spent much of that first year with the team on a whirlwind of events and speaking engagements, growing the community. The Developer Relations team that Patrick Chanezon and Adam Fitzgerald put together was super talented, and it was brilliant to be part of that group. Peter, Chris, Josh, Monica, Raja, Rajdeep, Alvaro, Eric, Frank, Tamao, Danny, Chloe, D, Giorgio, friends in that extended team… it was an honour.
A year after I joined, VMware spun out Cloud Foundry, SpringSource and other technologies into a new company, Pivotal – headed up by Paul Maritz. I’ve been privileged to work under him, Rob Mee at Pivotal Labs, and most closely, my good friend James Watters on the Cloud Foundry team. I’ve seen the opening of our new London offices on Old Street, welcomed our partners and customers into that unique collaborative and pairing environment, and observed an explosion of activity and innovation in this space. We launched an amazing product. James Bayer heads up a remarkable group of technologists working full-time on Cloud Foundry, and it has been a pleasure to get to know him and his team. Most recently, I’ve loved every minute working with Cornelia, Ferdy, Matt, Sabha and Scott (aka the Platform Engineering team), another talented group of individuals from whom I’ve learned much.
Over the course of the last two years I’ve seen the Platform-as-a-Service space grow, establish itself, and develop – most recently resulting in my recent talk at bcs Oxfordshire:
Last week, we announced the forthcoming Cloud Foundry Foundation – and one could argue that as a community and Open Source kinda guy, this was the direction I’ve helped to move things in the past two years, although I can claim no credit at all for the Foundation announcement itself. I’ve certainly enjoyed hosting occasional London Cloud Foundry Community meetups and drinks events (note, next London PaaS User Group event has 2 CF talks!), and I’ve made some great friends locally and internationally through the ongoing growth of the project. I’m proud of the Platform event we put on last year, I think the upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit will be just as exciting, and I’m happy to have been a part of establishing and growing the CF community here in Europe.
Cloud Foundry is THE de facto Open Source PaaS standard, the ecosystem is strong and innovative, and that has been achieved in a transparent and collaborative way, respectful to the community, in a good-natured way in the face of competition. Rest assured that I’ll continue to watch the project and use PaaSes which implement it (I upgraded to a paid Pivotal Web Services account just this past week, I tried BlueMix, and I’m an ongoing fan of the Anynines team).
There are many missing shout-outs here… you folks know who you are, and should also know that I’ve deeply enjoyed learning from you and working with you. Thank you, Pivotal team! I do not intend to be a stranger to the Bay Area! In my opinion, Pivotal is positioned brilliantly in offering an end-to-end mobile, agile development, cloud platform and big data story for the enterprise. I look forward to continuing the conversations around that in the next couple of weeks.
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What happens after “the next couple of weeks”? Well, this is as good time as any (!) to close that chapter, difficult though it is to leave behind a team I’ve loved working with, on a product and project that is undoubtedly going to continue to be fantastically successful this year and beyond. So, it is time to announce my next steps, which may or may not be clear from the title of this post… 🙂
Joining Twitter!I joined Twitter as a user on Feb 21 2007. On the same day, seven years later, I accepted a job offer to go and work with the Twitter team as a Developer Advocate, based in London.
If you’ve been a long-term follower of mine either here on this blog, or on Twitter, or elsewhere, you’ll know that Twitter is one of my favourite tools online. It has been transformational in my life and career, and it changed many of my interactions. True story: between leaving IBM and joining VMware I presented at Digital Bristol about social technologies, and I was asked, which one I would miss the most if it went away tomorrow; the answer was simple: Twitter. As an Open Source guy, too, I’ve always been impressed with Twitter’s contributions to the broader community.
I couldn’t be more #excited to get started with the Twitter Developer Relations team in April!
Follow me on Twitter – @andypiper – to learn more about my next adventure…
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https://andypiper.co.uk/2014/03/06/hashtag-newjob/
#career #cloud #cloudFoundry #job #paas #pivotal #social #SocialNetworking #springsource #Twitter #vmware
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I’m very excited to announce that, from April 10th, I will be joining the Developer Relations team for Cloud Foundry at VMware.
This is a thrilling opportunity for me for a number of reasons.
- from a technology perspective: Cloud Foundry is very, very, very cool. In my opinion, it really comes from a different set of thought processes than the other Platform-as-a-Service offerings out there, which make it unique and compelling.
- the operating system stuff gets out of the way (why should it matter?), but multiple language runtimes and backend resources are available for easy scaling. Seriously, the first time I walked through the command-line tutorial and scaled a Ruby app to 6 load balanced instances with a single command, I was instantly impressed.
- it is Open Source. The code is on Github. You can run your own cloud if you like. You can add support for your own languages and frameworks, much as AppFog have done for PHP, Tier 3 and Uhuru have done with .NET in Iron Foundry, and so on. This provides a huge amount of flexibility. Oh, and of course mobile and cloud go hand-in-hand, so last week’s announcement of FeedHenry providing tools to develop HTML5 apps to deploy on Cloud Foundry was really significant, too.
- you can take your cloud with you using Micro Cloud Foundry – so the development and deployment model remains the same whether you are online or offline. I love this idea.
- for me, personally: it’s a natural evolution of much of the work I’ve been doing over the past few years – focusing on developer communities and promoting technology adoption, as much as top-down solution selling. As my good friend James Governor is fond of saying and as his colleague Steve O’Grady wrote, developers are the new kingmakers – and with trends like mobile, cloud, and devops, nurturing those communities is more important than ever. You don’t impose technology on a community – you explain it and earn your place and reputation.
- I’m looking forward to more speaking, more writing, more mentoring, and more online community building. These are things I’ve grown to enjoy (and in the case of the latter, appear to do naturally).
- I’ve followed Patrick Chanezon, the Senior Director of the team, since he was setting up the developer advocacy programme back at Google – I have a lot of respect for what he’s achieved and the way he operates, so I’m delighted to have the chance to work closely with him. I’m excited to join everyone in the team, of course – I have spoken with most of the group already and I’m really looking forward to learning from their diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.
Between now and April 10th, I have a few things planned including a vacation (!), heading to EclipseCon to talk about MQTT and M2M topics, and some other speaking engagements. After I start the new role, I expect I’ll join in on the Cloud Foundry Open Tour and start to meet folks. I’ll also be on the team for the GOTO conference in Aarhus in October – exciting times ahead!
https://andypiper.co.uk/2012/03/12/joining-vmware-cloudfoundry/
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- from a technology perspective: Cloud Foundry is very, very, very cool. In my opinion, it really comes from a different set of thought processes than the other Platform-as-a-Service offerings out there, which make it unique and compelling.