Cloud Foundry Summit 2026

Cloud Foundry makes deploying apps incredibly fast, but what actually happens when typing cf push? In this 25-minute session designed for beginners, Maurice will guide the attendees through the best ways to rapidly prototype and deploy applications. Maurice will showcase the most effective methods to get code running quickly, comparing the standard CF CLI, the visual Stratos UI, and modern CI/CD pipelines like GitHub Actions.

Once the prototypes are live, Maurice will pull back the curtain to demonstrate how all of these different tools ultimately communicate with the exact same Cloud Controller API, which the attendees can easily interact with using cf curl. To truly demystify the platform's magic, Maurice will break down a standard cf push into its individual lifecycle phases (creating the app record, uploading the package, staging with buildpacks, and starting the droplet). Finally, Maurice will show the attendees how to execute and rerun these distinct steps in complete isolation using granular CLI commands and direct API calls, giving them total control over their deployments.