Cloud Foundry Documentation

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  • General Information
  • Contribute to Cloud Foundry documentation
  • Cloud Foundry concepts
    • Cloud Foundry overview
    • Security and networking
      • Cloud Foundry security
      • Container security in Cloud Foundry
      • Container-to-container networking
      • Orgs, spaces, roles, and permissions in Cloud Foundry
      • Planning orgs and spaces in Cloud Foundry
      • App Security Groups in Cloud Foundry
      • Cloud Foundry app SSH components and processes
    • High availability
      • High availability in Cloud Foundry
      • How Cloud Foundry maintains high availability
    • How Cloud Foundry manages apps
      • Staging your apps in Cloud Floundry
      • The app container lifecycle on Diego architecture
      • How Diego balances app processes in Cloud Foundry
    • Cloud Foundry components
      • Diego components and architecture
      • Cloud Foundry routing architecture
      • Cloud Controller
      • Cloud Controller blobstore
      • User Account and Authentication server
      • Garden component
      • GrootFS disk usage in Cloud Foundry
      • HTTP routing
  • Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI)
    • Installing the cf CLI
    • Upgrading to cf CLI v7
    • Upgrading to cf CLI v8
    • Getting started with the cf CLI
    • Using the cf CLI with a proxy server
    • Using the cf CLI with a self-signed certificate
    • Using cf CLI plug-ins
    • Developing cf CLI plug-ins
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  • Information for Operators
  • Deploying Cloud Foundry
    • Setting up DNS for your environment
    • Deploying Cloud Foundry with cf-deployment
      • Deploying BOSH on AWS
      • Deploying BOSH on GCP
      • Deploying Cloud Foundry
    • Configuring your Cloud Foundry for BOSH Backup and Restore
      • Backup and restore for external blobstores
    • Additional configuration
      • High availability in Cloud Foundry
      • How Cloud Foundry maintains high availability
      • Cloud Controller blobstore configuration
  • Administering Cloud Foundry
    • Managing the runtime
      • Stopping and starting virtual machines
      • Creating and modifying quota plans
      • Using feature flags
      • Examining GrootFS disk usage
      • Using metadata
      • Managing custom buildpacks
      • Using Docker in Cloud Foundry
    • User accounts and communications
      • Creating and managing users with the cf CLI
      • Creating and managing users with the UAA CLI (UAAC)
      • Get started with the Notifications Service
    • Routing
      • Enabling IPv6 for hosted apps
      • Distributed tracing
      • Enabling Zipkin tracing
      • Enabling W3C tracing
      • Supporting WebSockets
      • Configuring load balancer health checks for CF routers
      • Securing incoming traffic
      • Enabling and configuring TCP routing
      • Configuring HTTP/2 support
    • Isolation segments
      • Managing isolation segments
      • Routing for isolation segments
    • Delayed jobs in Cloud Foundry
      • Configuring delayed job priorities with Cloud Controller
    • Managing apps and their stacks
      • Using Stack Auditor
      • Changing stacks
      • Restaging your apps on a Windows stack
  • Running and Troubleshooting Cloud Foundry
    • Cloud Foundry logging
    • Configuring system logging
    • Configuring Diego for upgrades
    • Audit Events
    • UAA audit requirements
    • Usage events and billing
    • Configuring SSH access for Cloud Foundry
    • Configuring Diego Cell disk ceanup scheduling
    • Configuring Health Monitor Notifications
    • Monitoring and testing Diego components
    • Troubleshooting Cloud Foundry
    • UAA performance
    • UAA performance metrics
    • Scaling Cloud Controller
    • Cloud Controller Multi-Process Mode (Puma)
    • Scaling Cloud Controller (cf-for-k8s)
  • Logging and metrics in Cloud Foundry
    • Logging and metrics architecture
    • Installing the Loggregator plug-in for cf CLI
    • Security event logging
    • Limiting your app log rate in Cloud Foundry
    • Cloud Foundry component metrics
    • Container metrics
    • Loggregator guide for Cloud Foundry operators
    • Logging and metrics in Cloud Foundry
    • Configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector
    • Deploying a nozzle to your Cloud Foundry Loggregator Firehose
  • BOSH Documentation
  • BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR)
    • Installing BBR
    • Release notes for BBR
    • Backing up with BBR
    • Restoring with BBR
    • BBR logging
    • Advanced features
    • BBR developer's guide
  • Information for developers
  • Developing and managing apps
    • How to push your app with Cloud Foundry CLI (cf push)
      • Pushing your app using Cloud Foundry CLI (cf push)
      • Deploying with app manifests
      • App manifest attribute reference
      • Deploying an app with Docker
      • Deploying your large apps
      • Starting, restarting, and restaging apps
      • Pushing an app with multiple processes
      • Running cf push sub-step commands
      • Configuring app deployments
      • Pushing apps with sidecar processes
      • Using blue-green deployment to reduce downtime
      • Troubleshooting app deployment and health
    • SSH for apps and services
      • Configuring SSH access for your deployment
      • Accessing your apps with SSH
      • Accessing services with SSH
    • Routes and domains
      • Configuring routes and domains
      • Configuring per-route options
      • Configuring CF to route traffic to apps on custom ports
      • Routing HTTP/2 and gRPC traffic to apps
      • Troubleshooting TCP routing
    • Managing services
      • Managing service instances
      • Sharing service instances
      • Delivering service credentials to an app
      • Managing service keys
      • Configuring Play Framework service connections
      • Using an external file system (volume services)
      • User-provided service instances
    • Streaming app logs
      • Streaming app logs to log management services
      • Streaming app logs to third-party services
      • Streaming app logs to Splunk
      • Streaming app logs with Fluentd
      • Streaming app logs to Azure OMS log analytics
      • Using metrics with drain logs
    • Managing apps with the cf CLI
      • Running tasks in your apps
      • Scaling your app using Cloud Foundry CLI (cf scale)
      • Using Cloud Foundry health checks
      • Retrieving app and event information
      • Configuring container-to-Container networking
    • Cloud Foundry environment variables
    • Available Cloud Controller API client libraries
    • Designing and running your app in the cloud
    • Cloud Foundry API app revisions
  • Cloud Foundry Buildpacks
    • Cloud Native Buildpacks
      • Paketo Buildpacks
    • Classic Buildpacks
      • What are classic buildpacks?
        • Working with buildpacks in Cloud Foundry
        • Stack association
        • Pushing an app with multiple buildpacks
        • Using a proxy server
        • Supported binary dependencies
        • Configuring the production server
      • Binary buildpack
      • Go buildpack
      • Hosted Web Core buildpack
      • Java buildpack
        • Using Cloud Foundry Java buildpack
        • Getting started deploying Java apps to Cloud Foundry
          • Getting started deploying your Grails apps to Cloud Foundry
          • Getting started deploying Ratpack apps to Cloud Foundry
          • Getting started deploying Spring apps to Cloud Foundry
        • Configuring service connections
        • Using Java Native Image
        • Cloud Foundry Java Client Library
        • Using Java Native Image
      • .NET Core buildpack
      • NGINX buildpack
      • Node.js buildpack
        • Node.js buildpack-specific information
        • Environment variables defined by Node buildpack
        • Configuring service connections for Node.js application
      • Using PHP buildpack with runtimes
        • Additional information on PHP buildpacks in Cloud Foundry
        • Getting started deploying PHP apps to Cloud Foundry
        • PHP buildpack configuration
        • Composer
        • Sessions
        • New Relic
      • Python buildpack
      • R buildpack
      • Ruby buildpack
        • Additional information on Ruby buildpacks in Cloud Foundry
        • Getting started deploying Ruby apps
          • Getting started deploying Ruby apps
          • Getting started deploying Ruby on Rails apps
        • Configuring Rake tasks for deployed apps
        • Environment variables defined by Ruby buildpack
        • Configuring service connections for Ruby
        • Windows Gemfile support
      • Staticfile buildpacks
      • Customizing and developing buildpacks in Cloud Foundry
        • Creating custom buildpacks
        • Packaging dependencies for offline buildpacks
        • Merging from upstream buildpacks
        • Upgrading dependency versions for Cloud Foundry
        • Using CI for buildpacks
          • Releasing a new Cloud Foundry buildpack version
          • Updating buildpack-related gems in Cloud Foundry
  • Information for Managed Service Authors
    • Services in Cloud Foundry
    • Service Broker API
      • Open Service Broker API
      • Platform profiles
      • Catalog metadata
      • Volume services
      • Release Notes
    • Managing service brokers in Cloud Foundry
    • Managing access to service plans
    • Binding credentials in Cloud Foundry
    • CredHub
      • Setting up and deploying CredHub with BOSH
      • Configuring a hardware security module
      • Using a key management service with CredHub
      • CredHub credential types
      • Backing up and restoring CredHub instances
      • Troubleshooting CredHub
    • Dashboard Single Sign-on
    • Service instance sharing in Cloud Foundry
    • Service broker examples
    • App log streaming in Cloud Foundry
    • Offering Route Services in Cloud Foundry
    • Supporting multiple CF instances
  • User Account and Authentication
    • UAA Overview
    • UAA Concepts
    • Identity Providers in UAA
    • UAA Metrics
    • Deploy UAA
  • API Reference
  • UAA API
  • CAPI API
    • Available Cloud Controller API client libraries
    • Rate limit information returned by the Cloud Controller API
    • CAPI V2
    • CAPI V3