What Does It Take to Run Cloud Foundry at Enterprise Scale?
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Verizon runs Cloud Foundry across six data centers (including AWS) with 12 foundations, supporting about 100 apps and ~4,000 containers for 10,000 developers and 3,000 systems. The platform migrates from OpenStack to AWS, enforces opinionated buildpacks and multi-tenancy, and relies on a full‑stack operations team that owns infra through Elastic Runtime. Monitoring uses DataDog metrics fed by smoke tests every 15 minutes; upgrades, stemcells and buildpack management use Concourse-driven automation. Focuses are developer self‑service tooling, capacity KPIs and automating remediation.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction to speaker
- 0:43Verizon's digital shift
- 2:07Becoming a software company
- 3:09The journey with Cloud Foundry
- 4:43Goals and benefits
- 6:12Developer experience
- 7:41Platform constraints
- 9:06Empowering developers
- 10:41Operating at scale
- 12:27Visibility and monitoring
- 14:42Automation with Concourse
- 16:53Smoke test pipeline
- 18:42Key learnings
- 20:51Future roadmap
- 22:36Q&A session
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