Cloud Foundry is an open source, multi-cloud application platform as a service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity, allowing developers to deploy applications with a single command (cf push) across any major IaaS provider — including AWS, Azure, GCP, and vSphere — without modifying application code. Cloud Foundry supports the full application development lifecycle, from initial development through all testing stages to deployment. The platform handles containerization, load balancing, scaling, and service binding automatically.

For enterprises running Java-based applications like dotCMS in environments where Cloud Foundry is already the standard deployment platform, it provides a familiar, governed pathway to get dotCMS into production alongside other cloud-native workloads — without requiring teams to adopt new infrastructure tooling.