--- title: "Cloud Foundry Fundamentals" description: "Deploy and scale applications on STACKIT Cloud Foundry: routing, domains, SSH access, debugging, and advanced network security controls." scfAsset: managed: false category: "guide" maintainers: - user: "can.celik1" external: true tags: ["STACKIT University", "Learning", "Cloud Foundry", "PaaS", "Deployment", "Scaling"] source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/architecture/assetcontainer/stackit/cloudfoundry-fundamentals/" source_file: "docs/architecture/assetcontainer/stackit/cloudfoundry-fundamentals.mdx" --- ## Course Overview A hands-on, roughly three-hour introduction to STACKIT Cloud Foundry, the Platform-as-a-Service that lets you deploy cloud-ready applications with a single `cf push` instead of managing infrastructure. Across six modules, you progress from that first deployment through the organization, space, and role model that governs multi-team access, into scaling, routing, and custom domains, then into production concerns: zero-downtime deployment strategies, debugging via logs and health checks, direct SSH access to running containers, and advanced network security controls like Application Security Groups and private routing. Cloud Foundry's whole value proposition is abstraction — you stop thinking about servers and start thinking about your application. This course makes that trade-off concrete: what you gain in deployment speed, and what you still need to understand about your application (statelessness, no reliance on the local filesystem) to make it "cloud-ready" in the first place. It's built for developers and operators who want applications running in production quickly, without giving up the ability to debug, scale, and secure them properly. ### What You'll Learn - Deploy applications with `cf push`, using automatic routing, scaling, and the Service Marketplace - Manage orgs, spaces, roles, and service accounts for team and CI/CD access - Scale applications manually and with the App AutoScaler, and configure custom domains - Apply zero-downtime deployment strategies and debug via logs, events, and health checks - Secure applications with SSH access controls and Application Security Groups ### Modules - Introduction to Cloud Foundry - Application Management: Orgs, Spaces & Roles - Scaling, Routing & Domains - Advanced Deployment and Debugging - SSH Access to Applications and Services - Advanced Routing & Network Security