1.
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.5:
A First Look
Jared Ruckle
@jaredruckle
Dan Baskette
@dbbaskette

2.
The platform can deliver on all of these outcomes as efficiently on day 1000 as it does on day 1.
Operators can serve
thousands of devs
within tight budget
constraints.
Operators have
choice around which
cloud to run on.
Developers reduce
waste through small
batch delivery and fast
feedback.
Operators can trust a
secure-by-default
platform that solves
their security needs
without introducing
toil.
Developers
experience the safety
to experiment and
iterate rapidly..
Operators can
provide a platform that
meets their scale
needs.
Developers can ramp
productivity linearly
with personnel.
Developers can run
applications that
handle large-scale
loads.
Operators can reason
about the stability of
the platform and
provide
well-understood SLOs.
Developers can rely
on the platform to
allow them to deliver
outcomes with low
volatility.
Operators can
efficiently manage the
platform and onboard
new teams.
Developers can
iterate on delivering
consumer value
rapidly.
We’re Going to Talk About These 5 Things
Speed Stability Scalability Security Savings
Sustained

3.
vSphere Openstack AWS
Google
Cloud
Azure &
Azure Stack
Shared Services
Shared Security
Shared Networking
Logging & Metrics / Services Brokers / API Management
Credhub / UAA / Single Sign On
VMWare NSX
Embedded Operating System (Windows / Linux)
Application Code & Frameworks
Buildpacks / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud / Steeltoe
PAS
Pivotal Application
Service
PKS
Pivotal Container
Service
PFS
Pivotal Function
Service
Pivotal Services
Marketplace
Pivotal and
Partner Products
Any App
Every Cloud
One Platform
PCF — for everything
that matters
Concourse

4.
Speed
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

5.
Manifest “Diff” View

6.
PCF Ops
Manager 2.5
Ops Manager shows a GitHub-style “manifest
diff” view of proposed changes to a given
manifest.
Speed

7.
Ops Manager 2.5: “Manifest Diff” View

8.
Platform Automation for PCF

9.
Platform Automation for PCF [beta]
Platform Automation for PCF provides the building
blocks for teams to create a repeatable and reusable
automated pipeline for upgrading and installing their
PCF foundations.
The goal of Platform Automation for PCF is to enable
platform engineers to make it easy to automate
upgrades.

10.
Platform Automation for PCF [beta]

11.
Weighted Routing

12.
PAS 2.5
Weighted Routing gives developers more
control of how to split traffic when rolling out
new versions of an app. [beta]
● Control what percentage of traffic for a route is
forwarded to each application mapped to the
route.
● This feature uses PCF’s new Istio & Envoy based
routing subsystem.
● Operators will have to choose to deploy
additional VMs for the subsystem, which includes
components Copilot, Pilot, and Gateway Envoy.
● App Developers can then use the Cloud
Controller API to control the % traffic to each app
mapped to a route.
Speed
Stability

13.
Multiple Custom Ports

14.
PAS 2.5
PAS now supports apps that require multiple
custom ports
● Some workloads listen on ports other than
8080
○ Docker images
● Others listen on multiple ports
○ TCP protocols that require multiple
ports
○ Apps that serve web client requests on
one port and offer stats/debug on
another
● We want you to run these apps on PAS!
Now, you can.
Speed

15.
Metadata on API Elements

16.
PAS 2.5
Operators can specify metadata on elements
throughout PAS.
● Add metadata to Apps, Orgs, Spaces,
Builds, Isolation Segments, Stacks,
Deployments, Processes and Tasks
● This metadata helps users identify and
enrich API resources with additional
information.
● This can add useful context for other
operators (i.e. understanding what’s in an
app), and labeling apps for chargeback /
internal billing purposes.
Speed

17.
Source: Labeling Cloud Foundry API resources with a git SHA

18.
Windows Server & .NET Updates

19.
PAS for Windows
2.5
Speed
Windows Binary Buildpack will add multi-buildpacks capabilities.
● A number of you push .NET Core applications to Windows cells, which
currently requires a self-published app and the Binary Buildpack.
● This new feature will enable the same add-on-like functionality for
these apps and any Windows executables, like APM agents.
vSphere Stemcell Automation
● With this phase of automation, all the stemcell-build steps are
automated except Windows Updates.
● Simplifies the control plane for stemcell creation.
SMB Service will be enabled in PAS for Windows 2.5.
● Made possible with a Windows Server 1803 update and the .NET
Developer Experience team.
● Developers can use Steeltoe and “net use” with FQDN file paths in a
.profile.bat script to mount an SMB network volume from a container.
Coming Soon

20.
Single Sign-On for PCF

21.
SSO for PCF 1.9 (coming soon)
Release Target: March 2019
The module will feature a revamped
application developer dashboard,
designed to improve onboarding.
● Key information is presented
at-a-glance.
● Instructions are more clear, and
workflows are simplified.
● The end result? First-time users
become productive faster.

22.
Spring Cloud Data Flow for PCF 1.4

23.
Spring Cloud Data Flow for PCF 1.4 (coming soon)
SCDF for PCF 1.4 will bundle OSS SCDF 2.0, and automate day-to-day
operations. Highlights of the OSS release include:
● [speed] Java 11 compatibility (Java 8 is EOL)
● [speed] New Analytics and Monitoring abilities through Prometheus and InfluxDB
● [stability] Builds on the latest Spring Boot and Spring Cloud 2.1 GA foundation to
provide a stable orchestration environment for Stream and Batch processing in
PAS/PKS
● [scalability] Multi-platform backend support to launch Streams/Tasks from PAS to PKS,
and vice-versa,

24.
Stability
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

25.
Native Azure AZ Support for New
PCF Installs

26.
PCF Ops
Manager 2.5
● Ops Manager natively supports Azure AZs
in available regions for clean installs of
PAS.
Stability

27.
Windows Server 2019

28.
PAS for Windows
2.5
Stability
PAS for Windows 2.5 includes stemcells with Windows
Server 2019. Never patch an OS again - let Pivotal do it for
you!
● Operators can deliver rapid, uncomplicated,
zero-downtime upgrades of Windows Server for their
org.
● The new OS stabilizes and enhances a number of
container APIs we consume in the Garden Windows
implementation, winc.
● Perform a cf push with -s windows to target these
cells.
● Stemcells will be available on PivNet and bosh.io for all
IaaS targets, except vSphere.
Coming Soon

29.
Steeltoe 2.2

30.
Steeltoe 2.2
Steeltoe.Management
Config server and Service Discovery Client can now contribute to
an app’s health profile.
Actuator endpoints are better aligned to the Spring Boot 2.0
spec (i.e. naming and functionality).
Steeltoe.Connectors
MongoDB has been added as an optional connector. This
simplifies how .NET services call this database.
Steeltoe.Discovery
More support for additional scenarios: load balance across
multiple Eureka server URLs and for Hashicorp Consul as a
Discovery server.
Blog | Docs
Stability

31.
MySQL for PCF 2.6

32.
MySQL for PCF
2.6
● MySQL for PCF 2.6 offers multi-DC replication
(beta).
○ Developers can create a leader-follower
mysql in two foundations
○ Developers can bind apps in either
foundation to the multi-dc mysql instance.
○ Developers can trigger a failover to their DR
site in the case of a disaster.
○ Operators can do datacenter maintenance
while keeping mysql services up and
running.
● Galera clustering remains in beta in this release.
Coming Soon
Stability

33.
Scalability
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

34.
Apps Manager

35.
Apps Manager
Speed
Scalability
● Developers new to PAS can use Apps Manager
to become proficient with common platform
functions.
● In PAS 2.5, Apps Manager gains additional parity
with the CLI for async bindings
● PAS 2.5.x will also includes a new feature not
found in the CLI: Multi-foundation support [beta]
[coming soon]
○ Search on org name, space name, service
instance name, and app names.

36.
View and Manage Apps Across Multiple Foundations [coming soon]

37.
Windows Stemcells for AWS China

38.
PAS for Windows
2.5
Scalability
Windows Stemcells in AWS China.
● When released, these stemcells will work
with PAS for Windows 2.4 and 2.3 as well.
Coming Soon

39.
Security
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

40.
Trusted CA Certs in PAS for Windows

41.
PAS for Windows
2.5
Security
PAS for Windows 2.5 will support
custom trusted CA certs.
● In this forthcoming release, Windows
containers will load the trusted-CA certs
provided by operators in Ops Manager. This
leverages a new OCI-layer insertion process
built by Garden Windows team.
Coming Soon

42.
Pivotal Cloud Cache OAuth Integration

43.
Pivotal Cloud
Cache 1.7
PCC 1.7 integrates with OAuth2
providers like UAA.
Coming Soon
Security

44.
PSA
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

45.
PCF Ops
Manager 2.5
Stability
● OpsManager 2.5 comes with a breaking change
○ Breaking change impacts any customers who
are using pipelines to pull down new versions
of OpsManager
○ New filename follow the format below:
ops-manager-aws-2.5.1-build.123.p
df
○ For more information on how to workaround
this breaking change, please see the KB
article

46.
PSA
PASW 2012R2 End of Availability
In line with delivering the best experience for Windows workloads on
PCF, the 2012 R2 stack is being retired. Please talk to your Pivotal
account team to discuss migration and upgrade strategy.

47.
PSA
Please note:
PAS 2.5 does not ship with cflinuxfs2. Operators must complete
migration of their buildpack-based apps prior to upgrading.
● Resource [cflinuxfs3 Migration]
These features remain in beta status:
● Dynamic Egress Policy Configuration [blog]
● Native Rolling Deployments
● App Automator [docs] [PivNet]
● Compliance Scanner Add-on

48.
Partner Ecosystem
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

49.
ISV Ecosystem Momentum Drives Platform Advantage
ETL
DATABASE
IaaS
CACHE / LB
COMMERCE
SEARCH
IAM
SECURITY
TEST
ANALYTICS
BATCH
APM
MOBILE
CI / CD
NETWORKING
ITIL
BPM
IDE/CODE
API / SOA /
uS / IOT
MESSAGING SIEM / LOG /
AUDIT
CRM
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform

50.
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved. Version 1.0
● Software published to
network.pivotal.io
● Many features available now
run.pivotal.io
● Contact your account team for
updates on PKS & PFS.
● Contact your account team to join
roadmap call in June.

51.
Transforming How The World Builds Software
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.