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title: Cloud Foundry Concepts
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Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. It is an [open source project](https://github.com/cloudfoundry) and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.

This guide presents an overview of how Cloud Foundry works, a discussion of key concepts, and a glossary of terms. Refer to this guide to learn more about Cloud Foundry fundamentals.

## Table of Contents

* [Overview](./overview.html)

* [Cloud Foundry Components](./architecture/index.html)

* [How Applications are Staged](./how-applications-are-staged.html)

* [Zero Downtime Deployment and Scaling Cloud Foundry](./high-availability.html)

* [Orgs, Spaces, Roles, and Permissions](./roles.html)

* [Cloud Foundry Security](./security.html)

* [Stacks](./stacks.html)

* [Glossary](./glossary.html)


---
title: Cloud Foundry Concepts
---

Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service, providing a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. It is an [open source project](https://github.com/cloudfoundry) and is available through a variety of private cloud distributions and public cloud instances.

This guide presents an overview of how Cloud Foundry works, a discussion of key concepts, and a glossary of terms. Refer to this guide to learn more about Cloud Foundry fundamentals.

## Table of Contents

* [Overview](./overview.html)

* [Cloud Foundry Components](./architecture/index.html)

* [How Applications are Staged](./how-applications-are-staged.html)

* [Zero Downtime Deployment and Scaling in CF](./high-availability.html)

* [Orgs, Spaces, Roles, and Permissions](./roles.html)

* [Cloud Foundry Security](./security.html)

* [Stacks](./stacks.html)

* [Glossary](./glossary.html)


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