Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is another PaaS provider for Node.js. One major difference between Cloud Foundry and other services is that it does not rely on Git, so if you are not keen on using Git as part of your deployment process, this may be a good choice for you.

Signing Up for Cloud Foundry

To register for the service, visit https://my.cloudfoundry.com/signup and enter your details (see Figure 11.3). You then receive a confirmation link that invites you to select a password.

Figure 11.3. Signing up for Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry requires that you have vmc, a command-line tool for interacting with the service, installed on your system. This requires Ruby and RubyGems to be installed on your system. For many, this may be a turn-off from using this service, but Cloud Foundry does provide comprehensive documentation on getting everything installed at http://start.cloudfoundry.com/tools/vmc/installing-vmc.html.