Getting Started

• 1: Getting Started Overview
• 2: Quickstart
• 3: Compare Cloud Foundry and Kf services

1 - Getting Started Overview

With Kf, you can migrate your Cloud Foundry apps to Kubernetes without changing your developer workflows.

Use the following sections to get started deploying Cloud Foundry apps to Kf.

Get started with a quickstart

Use the quickstart to install Kf and deploy a simple test Cloud Foundry app. This introduces you to the basic steps you’d perform for most app deployments.

Get an introduction to key concepts

For an introduction to the value of Kf, as well as high-level overviews of the technology, see the following documents:

• To learn more about how Kf works, see Kf dependencies and architecture.
• For a side-by-side comparison of Cloud Foundry and Kf components, see Compare Cloud Foundry and Kf services.
• To learn how to use service brokers with Kf, see Service brokers.
• For more information about Kf security design, see the Security overview.

2 - Quickstart

In this quickstart, you will deploy a sample Cloud Foundry app on an existing Kf cluster.

Push an application

Prerequisites

The following are required to complete this section:

1. The kf CLI installed and in your path.

2. You have connected to the Kf Kubernetes cluster:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials CLUSTER_NAME \
       --project=CLUSTER_PROJECT_ID \
       --zone=CLUSTER_LOCATION
   

3. The git CLI installed and in your path.

Prepare space

1. Create new space:

   kf create-space test-space
   

2. Target the space:

   kf target -s test-space
   

Push the Cloud Foundry test app

1. Clone the test-app repo.

   git clone https://github.com/cloudfoundry-samples/test-app go-test-app
   
   cd go-test-app
   

2. Push the app.

   kf push test-app
   

3. Get the application’s URL.

   kf apps
   

4. Open the URL in your browser where you should see the app running.

   

Clean up

These steps should return the cluster to the starting state.

1. Delete the application.

   kf delete test-app
   

2. Delete the Space.

   kf delete-space test-space
   

3 - Compare Cloud Foundry and Kf services

This document provides a side-by-side comparison of the various services available on Cloud Foundry (CF) and those that Kf integrates with on Google Cloud.