Deploy NodeJs Apps to Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)

Explore how cloud computing provides on-demand remote servers over the internet to store, manage, and process data instead of local hardware, with scalable resources and pay-as-you-go pricing.

Explore the advantages of cloud computing, including flexibility, scalability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and easy backup and restore, enabling cost-efficient, secure deployment from anywhere.

Understand the three cloud service models—IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS—and how responsibilities move from user to provider, with examples like Rackspace Cloud, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, and Google Apps.

Explore cloud service models through a real-time leasing versus taxi analogy, identifying infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service.

Explore Cloud Foundry as an open source platform as a service, enabling deploying, running, scaling, logging, and monitoring Java, PHP, and .NET apps on PCF.

Explore the architecture of PCF, detailing metrics and logging, log aggregation, messaging, services with secure databases, application storage, and the cloud controller that manages app deployment, health, and authentication.

Create a PCF account, verify your email and mobile, sign in, create your first organization, and install the Cloud Foundry CLI to verify it is working.

Discover how organizations and spaces structure your PCF environment, and assign roles such as org manager, billing manager, space manager, space developer, and space auditor to control access and deployment.

Log in to Cloud Foundry from the command line, create spaces in your organization (development, stage, broad), and select the deployment space before pushing your app.

Learn how to deploy a Node.js app with the Express framework to Cloud Foundry, and set up the accompanying school database in preparation for integration in later lessons.

Install MySQL locally using MySQL Workbench, start the local server, and connect to localhost:3306 with root, exploring the default schema and a sample product table.

Launch and deploy a nodejs express CRUD app with mysql to pcf, illustrating a home page that displays products from a mysql database and supports add, edit, and delete operations.

Provision a my school database on PCF via marketplace, choose the free plan, bind to development space, and connect from the local workbench using host, port 3306, and credentials.

Export the local database's product table and import it into the MySQL database on PCF Cloud Foundry, creating the product table and three records for verification.

Deploy a nodejs app to PCF by switching local my school properties to the portal Cloud Foundry database, then push the app to the development space and monitor logs.

Learn to deploy your Node.js application to pivotal cloud foundry with a MySQL database, and share feedback or ask questions.