The Hello world application using Cloud Foundry

In this section, we will develop a very basic Cloud Foundry application to illustrate the nature of the cloud-native application using PaaS. The application itself is a basic HTML page index.html as given in the following example.

Optional step: A prerequisite for executing this application is to have access to a PaaS provider, such as the Pivotal CF platform https://pivotal.io/platform/, the command-line tools for connecting to the cloud provider, and so on. This is optional seeing as the focus is to highlight some of advantages of running in a PaaS environment.

Download the source code from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/tjayant/Predix-HelloWorld-WebApp # replace with the final git ...

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