In the past PaaS has been rigid and invasive for application developers. CloudFoundry aims to change that perception of PaaS with the use of Buildpacks. A Buildpack allows an application developer to define his deployment environment in plain text. Some refer to this as infrastructure as code since the aspects of a deployment environment that were previously handled by system administrators on dedicated servers now exist in plain text alongside the application files. What’s available out-of-the-box? Before diving into custom buildpacks, a lot of people will ask “What is available out-of-the-box with CloudFoundry?”.......

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