Infrastructure must be boring!

In the first keynote of the Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 in The Hague, Netherlands, Craig McLuckie said, "Infrastructure should be boring." With that sentence, the theme of many talks, panels and discussions was born.

The idea behind this is that developers no longer have to worry about infrastructure, because a solution will do it for them. Cloud Foundry wants to be that solution.

"Cloud Foundry places the utmost importance on allowing developers to focus on what matters to them: Developing applications and writing code. The Summit puts developers in the spotlight so they can share their experiences with our European community."

said Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

"Nearly 40 percent of our users report application development with Cloud Foundry in less than 24 hours."

In order to get even more developers on board, the Cloud Foundry Foundation advocates clean code and more inclusivity. This is important to maintain the diversity and creativity of the community.

As an open source multi-cloud application, collaboration and community input are essential to the continued development of the Cloud Foundry platform.

The Foundation announces that all certified Cloud Foundry providers, including SAP, are already supporting Project Eirini, announced at Europe Summit 2018, with several technology previews.

The Foundation announces updates to key Cloud Foundry projects, including Stratos and Quarks. Stratos, the open source user interface for the Cloud Foundry community led by the Suse team, has officially been upgraded from an incubation project to a Cloud Foundry core project.

The Quarks project team says the project is in beta and will be available for initial testing.

Precisely because of the success of Eirini and Quarks, the question arose among the participants whether Kubernetes might one day replace core platform functions.

Chip Childers, CTO of Cloud Foundry Foundation, commented:

"Yes, that will happen, but not right now. Not everyone can or wants to use Eirini and Quarks yet, and especially in open source it's important that no one is left behind. So yes, in the future definitely, but for now we continue to rely on Bosh and Diego."

The core message was clear: Cloud Foundry benefits developers and businesses. Developers because, without having to spend most of their time managing existing infrastructure, they are free to develop new solutions; and businesses because developers having more time to be creative means more revenue from new innovations.

Chip Childers adds:

"Modern practices and modern platforms speed up development significantly. A team of eight people can achieve more with modern practices than a team of a thousand developers with outdated ones. Developer experience is therefore as important as customer experience."