Top 7 reasons PCF made life difficult

1. Provisioning
2. Build Packs
3. Local Storage
4. Logging
5. Orchestration
6. SSL Support
7. Cost

1. one platform, multiple apps in multiple stages
2. Apps that need to, should be able to connect to PDV / RCN
3. should work automatically through pipelines
4. Requirements should be part of the code
5. Secrets and configrations should be stored centrally
6. SSL should work automatically and be enabled by default
7. Orchestration: be able to deploy apps consisting of multiple microservices

1. flexible & battle proven
2. Containers > Build Packs
3. Container builds are run in the pipeline and deployed ready to run
4. Local development and production / staging use the same containers
5. no struggle "getting it to run" aka "works n my machine"
6. Documentation about requirements is part of the code

1. live logs should be viewable by developers
2. historic logs should be available
3. flexible use of logged data

1. we don't know the future requirements
2. use internal hosted services whenever possible
3. be able to use external services
4. be able to setup and integrate custom servers (e.g. with Ansible)

1. no vendor lock in
2. transparency
3. high iteration rate

Azure
&
Azure Kubernetes Services(AKS)