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Cloud Foundry Integration

Zend Server's integration with Cloud Foundry allows you to quickly get your PHP applications up and running on a highly available PHP production environment which includes, amongst other features, a highly reliable PHP stack, application monitoring, troubleshooting, and more.

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Terms

Get acquainted with basic Cloud Foundry concepts:

Term Description

Buildpack

A buildpack is a set of scripts that Cloud Foundry runs on an application package to create a droplet that contains everything the application needs to run. A buildpack is specific to a particular framework or runtime environment.

Droplet

A droplet is the result of the application staging process, it is an uploaded application to which a buildpack has been applied. It is the original application, with a wrapper around it that accepts one input – the port where it should listen for HTTP requests, and has two methods, a start and a stop.

Application Manifest

An application manifest defines application deployment settings, such as the name of an application, the number of instances to deploy, the maximum memory available to an instance, the services it uses, and so on. The default name for a manifest is manifest.yml. Use of a manifest automates application deployment, allowing a user to provide deployment settings in a file rather than at the command line.

Services

Cloud Foundry Services are any type of add-on that can be provisioned alongside your application; for example, a database or an account on a third-party SaaS provider.

For information on additional Cloud Foundry terms, check out the Cloud Foundry Glindex at http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/docs/using/terms.html

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