Cloud Foundry Weekly

What does a Claude-pilled world actually look like? How are platforms evolving alongside AI-driven development? And what does all of this mean for developers, operators, and the way we build software going forward?Cote joins us as our special guest to unpack the current state — and future direction — of platforms, development, and, yes, general life in an AI-first era.Whether you’re building platforms, running them, or just trying to keep up, this episode sets the tone for the year ahead.

It’s time to celebrate! Join us for a special holiday edition of Cloud Foundry Weekly as we wrap up 2025 with highlights, laughs, and a look back at an incredible year in the Cloud Foundry and Tanzu ecosystem.Whether you’ve been with us all year or are just tuning in, this episode is all about community, gratitude, and ending the year on a high note. 🍾🎁Thanks for watching, supporting, and being part of CF Weekly—see you in 2026!👉 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share with the CF community.#CloudFoundry #CFWeekly #HolidayParty #DevOps #Tanzu #PlatformEngineering

In Cloud Foundry Weekly #79, special guest Ray walks us through the biggest observability updates in Tanzu Platform 10.3.What’s New in 10.3:Healthwatch migration/deprecation and the new consolidated Dashboards pageTIA Advanced support for deeper Foundation analysisRedesigned single-foundation page with expanded Ops Manager insights (Beta)OTEL now supports metric-registrar, enabling teams to move off legacy nozzlesNew OTEL exporters: Datadog, Kafka, syslogPotential for large resource savings plus new data transformation optionsPerfect for operators and teams looking to modernize their observability stack in TP 10.3.🔔 Subscribe for more Tanzu & Cloud Foundry insights every week!

Lloyd and Keith will join show to discuss all things services in Tanzu Platform 10.3

This episode is a quick deep dive into all the new security upgrades in Tanzu Platform 10.3 — making both your apps and platform safer than ever. Special guests DMZ and V. Körbes join us to unveil the new features and explain what they mean for real production workloads

This week on Cloud Foundry Weekly, we break down the GA release of AI Services Tile v10.3.We’ll explore:What’s new in the 10.3 GAKey improvements for developers and operatorsHow the renamed tile integrates with Cloud Foundry and Tanzu PlatformIt’s a technical deep dive with no tricks, only treats 🎃 — perfect timing for a Halloween edition of Cloud Foundry Weekly!

Get ready for the ultimate Tanzu demo! 🤯 In this episode of Cloud Foundry Weekly, we showcase how Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Data Intelligence come together in one powerful demo application suite.Created by Dan Baskette, the demo follows the fictitious enterprise Insurance MegaCorp, showing how a modern business can unlock new levels of agility and insight with Tanzu. From deploying apps on Tanzu Platform to harnessing data with Tanzu Data Intelligence, this is the most complete Tanzu story yet. 🚀👉 What you’ll see in this episode:How Tanzu Platform simplifies app deployment and scalingHow Tanzu Data Intelligence unlocks real-time insightsThe MegaCorp demo app suite in actionWhy combining Platform + Data delivers a true enterprise advantageDon’t miss it — this is the Tanzu demo that will blow your mind.#Tanzu #CloudFoundry #VMware #DataIntelligence #CloudNative

Join the Cloud Foundry Weekly crew as we are thrilled to host an incredible panel of Cloud Foundry Users and Contributors. We look to promote conversations between Cloud Foundry Users and Contributors. Our guests will share their experiences with Cloud Foundry and offer practical insights on how their organizations operate their businesses using Cloud Foundry. We're excited to close out the show by demonstrating how the Cloud Foundry contributors’ work is used in the real world and how Cloud Foundry drives your everyday lives.

This week on Cloud Foundry Weekly, we’re joined by Keith Lee for an exciting deep dive into the future of AI-powered development.We’ll be running live virtual vibe coding agents to stress-test AI services deployed on the Tanzu Platform Cloud Foundry environment. Expect real-time results, insights, and maybe a few surprises as we push the platform to its limits.After the test, we’ll break down the numbers—reviewing what happens when you burn through millions of tokens—and discuss the real economics of AI at enterprise scale.Whether you’re a developer, operator, or enterprise decision-maker, this session will give you a unique perspective on:Vibe coding and its impact on developer productivityHow Cloud Foundry handles AI service workloads under stressEnterprise ROI and the true costs of large-scale AI usage👉 Don’t miss this mix of hands-on experimentation and enterprise economics!#CloudFoundry #Tanzu #AI #DevEx #VibeCoding #100XDev

Ram Iyengar and Chris Clark will join the show to give a preview of CF Day EU 2025 and share the latest news and updates in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem!

Keith Lee will be joining the show this week to really deep dive into the performance differences between Ollama and vLLM. Especially when running them in our favorite Cloud Foundry distribution, Tanzu Platform.

Join the show today to learn tips and tricks on how you can run the latest open weights model from OpenAI "GPT-OSS" in your own Datacenter, HomeLab, or Enterprise.

Cote will join the show this week to talk about how Cloud Foundry Platform Engineers can adapt to the new challenge of managing and maintaining the next generation of AI-powered applications.We will pull from real-life examples from our Tanzu Platform customer base.

Mark Fynes and Corby Page join the show this week to deep-dive on their work around Securing MCP Server endpoints. Learn how you can use Tanzu Platform to serve as a platform to host and secure your MCP servers.

Kirti Apte and Yannick Levedar join the show this week to explore running JupyterLab & Langchain on Tanzu Platform and Cloud Foundry!Repos used in the show:cf-jupterlab-uv: https://github.com/yannicklevederpvtl/cf-jupyterlab-uvcode examples: https://github.com/kirtiapte/cf-jupyterlab-samples/tree/main

V Körbes and DMZ join the show in this special early edition episode to discuss updates on the security landscape, Tanzu Platform, and Cloud Foundry!

Continuing our coverage on Tanzu Platform 10.2 - Ray Belleville will join the show this week to deep dive into the Tanzu Hub! Don't miss this episode to learn about how Tanzu Hub can help you manage your Cloud Foundry foundations

Oded Shopen is our special guest this week! We will delve into his work, utilizing LLMs to perform multilingual RAG with the Tanzu Platform. This episode will provide an excellent primer on how to build applications on Cloud Foundry that can expand traditional RAG use cases across multiple languages.Oded's App Repo:https://github.com/odedia/spring-ai-multilingual-document-analyzer

Join us live as we attempt to vibe code an app live with the power of Cline, LLMs powered by the Tanzu Platform. Hopefully, we can get an app coded and cf pushed to the platform in a matter of minutes!

FYI - We had A LOT of technical difficulties on this one with Streamyard! Did my best cleaning up the audio on the podcast version posted here, but bear with us on this one :)Darin Zook joins the show this week to continue our coverage of the Tanzu Platform 10.2 release!

Join us to celebrate the release of Tanzu Platform 10.2! Our special guest will be Darin Zook as we dive into the latest and greatest features in your favorite Cloud Foundry distribution :)

We will explore some new homelab gear today on the show and how it can be used with Cloud Foundry!

Keith Lee and DaShaun Carter rejoin the show to continue our discussion on home labs and the automated installer of Tanzu Platform!

Mad scientist Mark Fynes will join the show this week to discuss his work on running cloud foundry/bosh-vended data services as a regional service!

Join the Cloud Foundry Weekly crew as we go live from Cloud Foundry Day NA 2025 from Broadcom's beautiful campus in Palo Alto!Special thanks to Amelia Downs, David Stevenson, Greg Otto, and Beyhan Veli for the joining the show!

DaShaun and Keith will join the show to discuss Tanzu Small Runtime and the various ways it can be deployed!Keith's Installer:https://github.com/KeithRichardLee/Tanzu-GenAI-Platform-installer

Hot off the presses in model releases - we will explore the Qwen3-30b-a3b MoE model running on the Tanzu Platform. Early testing shows it performs exceptionally well on somewhat older enterprise-grade server CPUs (aka Cascade Lake). This show will provide some insights on how enterprises can use their existing server infrastructure to start their intelligent application modernization efforts.

Cote will join the show to discuss his latest experiences in the vibe coding scene and recap the latest and greatest updates on VMware Tanzu strategy!

Corby and Kirti return to show how Cloud Foundry is the enterprise's Agentic AI platform of choice!We will continue to explore the Model-Context Protocol (MCP), Spring AI, and GenAI on Tanzu Platform. Last but not least, we will provide some commentary on what can be achieved on CPUs vs. GPUs within the platform and what resources you may need to run your LLMs locally on Tanzu Platform. 

Let's take a test drive of the latest Open WebUI release (0.6.0), which introduces MCP support! We will dive deep into this and how to debug LLMs running on the Tanzu Platform. Don't miss the episode to as we will be showing tips and tricks for getting LLM function support, MCP, and one of the best GenAI frontends working on Cloud Foundry!

DMZ, Nishad, and Rajan will join the show this week to discuss how Team Tanzu proactively handles the ever-changing security landscape by implementing proactive practices to respond to and mitigate the CVE threat landscape.We will also ask the team for their thoughts on wrapping security around the Model Context Protocol(MCP) as it continues to pick up steam!

We welcome special guests Chris Phillipson and Brian Kirkland to the show to discuss implementing continuous platform engineering with cf-kaizen and the rest of the cf-tool suite. Don't miss this episode to see how you can harness the power of agents to improve your overall platform operations and engineering.

We will have special guest Joey McDonald on the show to discuss his latest project, ConcourseGPT! ConcourseGPT aims to tame the Beasts of CI/CD Infrastructure with AI-generated documentation! It solves the challenge of undocumented, complex Concourse pipelines with an AI-powered tool that generates comprehensive documentation for configurations that often remain untouched for months or years.If you are using Concourse, this will be a must-watch episode!Check out the project on Joey's blog:https://jmcdice.github.io/posts/concourse-gpt/Grab the code:https://github.com/jmcdice/concourse-gpt

We welcome Adib Saikali back to the show to continue covering his Zero to Hero class on Spring AI! We will also continue to show how easy it is to expand and empower Java developers on the platform using Spring AI to jumpstart intelligent app development using Cloud Foundry and our GenAI tile.Grab the code:https://github.com/asaikali/spring-ai-zero-to-heroCatch up on part 1 here:https://www.youtube.com/live/vyZSmePUiCE?si=6xzpkzjUgv65WbNI

We continue our coverage on running Open-WebUI on Cloud Foundry! We will dig into what services we can tie in from the Cloud Foundry marketplace to expand our exploration of running GenAI apps and LLMs within your foundations. Last but not least, we will give a sneak peek at Nick's latest addition to his homelab.

We are kicking off our "How-To" mini-series with this episode! We will show a deep dive on deploying the popular open-webui application on Cloud Foundry! Open-WebUI is a great tool to explore and experiment with GenAI on your locally deployed LLMs running on the GenAI for Tanzu Platform tile. We will also deep dive into different model variants and inference engines such as Ollama and vLLM.Open-WebUI: https://openwebui.com/GenAI for tPCF Samples:https://github.com/nkuhn-vmw/GenAI-for-TPCF-SamplesCloud Foundry Podcast: https://cloudfoundryweekly.com/episodesCloud Foundry Weekly LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cloud-foundry-weekly Cloud Foundry Weekly X: https://x.com/cf_weeklyNick Kuhn LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-kuhn-aa72a39/ Nick Kuhn X: https://x.com/tehkuhnzNick Kuhn Blog: https://tehkuhnz.io/Nicky Pike LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicky-pike/ Nicky Pike X: https://x.com/bearded_bytesNicky Pike Blog: https://nickypike.dev

Are you curious about the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? Join the show this week to hear from special guests Corby Page and Kirti Apte to learn the basics of MCP and to use that in the scope of your Cloud Foundry environment!

DaShaun Carter and Dan Vega will join the show this week to give an update on what's going on in the world of Spring! Don't miss this episode to see how you can pair Cloud Foundry with our favorite java framework :)

Are you trying to make sense of all the AI news around deepseek-r1? Well, then join the show this week to get a deep dive on how to deploy deepseek-r1 in your datacenter running on the Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry

Nick and Nicky will explore the latest features released in tPCF 10. Be sure to check out this episode to learn about the latest updates in your favorite Cloud Foundry distribution.

DMZ will join the show to give the first Into the DMZ update for 2025. Be sure to check out this episode for the latest security updates in the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

Join the CF Weekly crew and special guest Cote as we complete our year-end performance review for the podcast. We will discuss the top episodes and events in the CloudFoundry/tech ecosystem, set goals, and look forward to upcoming events and episodes in 2025!

Join the extended Cloud Foundry weekly crew as we celebrate the holidays, reflect on the year, and geek out about our homelabs!

This week, friends of the pod Tim Leong and Mark Fynes will join the show again to discuss all the goodness that Tanzu adds on top of the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

This will be the first part of our Tanzu Platform 10 launch coverage. Nicky and Nick will deep dive into the GA release of the GenAI for Tanzu Platform Tile. Don't miss this episode to get the latest tips and tricks on installing the GenAI tile.

Nicky will share his insights from Kubecon North America! He will share his stories from working at the Cloud Foundry Foundation and VMware Tanzu booths.LinksCloud Native Heroes Challenge:  Help vanquish patent trolls!  https://www.cncf.io/heroes/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Salt Lake City 2024 Playlist:   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2Pw4mRw4S-1p_xLARMqPkA7 

Cote and Keith Lee will join the show this week live from VMware Explore Barcelona 2024!

cf-toolsuite fans - Don't miss this episode! Friend of the pod, Chris Phillipson, will return to share updates on the latest addition to the cf-toolsuite, Sanford! This new app will run, use the GenAI on the Tanzu Platform tile, and do some fun document analysis.  Of course, stay tuned for general updates on cf-tool suite and perhaps some Halloween fun :)

What to catch up on all Cloud Foundry excitement from Karlsruhe this year? Be sure to tune into the show as we recap all the great talks and topics from Cloud Foundry Day 2024 EU!

It's time for another "Into the DMZ" security series update with David Zendzian! Chris Cropper will also join the show to deep dive into cloud-native security and compliance!