Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs VMware Tanzu Platform comparison

Pivotal Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu Platform are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.4, while VMware Tanzu Platform is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.4. Additionally, 93% of Pivotal Cloud Foundry users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of VMware Tanzu Platform users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Pivotal Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

VMware Tanzu Platform

Ranking in PaaS Clouds

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (10th), Cloud Management (18th), Development Platforms (2nd), Container Management (3rd), Service Mesh (4th), Agile and DevOps Services (3rd)

Featured Reviews

Stephen Hack

Web App developer at FDIC

Sep 16, 2022

Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is used as a cloud platform Pivotal Cloud Foundry has helped our organization by the way we've set it up, it's easy to sign in, bind services, push services, and create YAML files. The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line…

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SiddhitRenake

Platform Engineer - Linux at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Feb 28, 2024

Easy to register multiple Kubernetes clusters, offers a single pane of visibility on its dashboard, and perform lifecycle management operations

Our TMC usage was limited, and exploring it further was hindered by the lack of an on-premise model. Due to compliance issues with the SaaS model, we couldn't proceed with it as a production-grade product. So, an on-premises model would have been useful for us. VMware rolled out an on-premise model for TMC, allowing for an on-premises implementation, which we learned about six months ago. Also, cost is always a concern. Smaller companies might find the price a bigger issue. Since we were at a large data center, the price might not have been a concern for us. Smaller and medium businesses might hesitate due to the price tag. VMware can be quite expensive.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We find its stability and scalability valuable."

"It is a scalable product...We are not facing any particular issues since most of the applications in our company are written in Java and .NET."

"PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."

"The most valuable features of Pivotal Cloud Foundry are its ease of use and the command line interface has the ability to push instances to the cloud easily."

"The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided."

"Stability is not a concern with this product."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance."

"The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution."

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"I have multiple Kubernetes environments within my environment. TMC gives me a single pane view, which is good for managing everything."

"The valuable feature I have found to be the management of Kubernetes clusters in a private cloud or public clouds, such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform."

"The most popular feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is its graphical user interface for describing network policies on the Service Mesh, which is highly integrable with other tools commonly used in supply chains such as security."

"The solution is integrated very well with a lot of other systems. Also, its GUI is very good."

"The most important feature of Tanzu Mission Control is its integration with the other products, especially with ESX and vSAN. This is a strong part of Tanzu Mission Control. In other solutions, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, you can find similar features, but they don't have similar integration. With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider. You have the integration with the infrastructure, virtualization of networking, and virtualization of storage. You have a natural integration, and you don't have the problem of integrating it with different products or providers. Sometimes, different companies have good integration, but it is not always guaranteed. For example, many years ago, Cisco and VMware were good partners in networking, but when VMware started to sell ESX, the relationship was broken. This is the problem that you can face when you are using solutions from two different companies."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to check the flow of all the different variants within our applications."

"The multi-tenancy with the VCD is great."

"The observability platform and end-to-end service portal provided by Tanzu are the most valuable features."

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Cons

"The user interface should be simpler to navigate because it t can take time for users to learn it."

"Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice."

"I'd like to see a larger service offering."

"There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry."

"There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features."

"It is not straightforward to setup."

"Pivotal Cloud Foundry is not scalable, infinitely, because when you install it on a set of virtual machines it is very hard to scale. It's easy to scale on an application level, but not it is not similar to if you were using Amazon. Amazon you can scale thousands of applications."

"The Pivotal Cloud Foundry's initial setup has a learning curve for my team, but it was easy to use."

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"Having a unified dashboard to manage all infrastructure, whether it involves additional IT infrastructure or modern apps, would be highly advantageous"

"Tanzu provides better manageability as compared to OCP, but when it comes to tagging it with other products, it's a bit rigid. If I have to bring in any new product or something out of the box from a different vendor, working with Tanzu becomes a little difficult. For example, if I want to use the F5 services, I have to add one more layer of Avi, but I don't want to do that. If I have a list of the products that I want to use, such as for firewall services, with Tanzu, I will have to go through another layer, which creates complexity."

"The solution is currently focused on VMware infrastructure and I would like to see more options made available."

"Cost is always a concern. Smaller companies might find the price a bigger issue."

"I would like to see additional support for things outside of Cloud Foundry."

"The infrastructure is quite challenging."

"The network control and security policies must be improved."

"This product doesn't have a GUI. In order to use it properly, I need to connect it to a new GUI or build a GUI to manage it — it's pretty difficult."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."

"The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."

"You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."

"Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."

"The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."

"One of our Spanish customers told us that VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is a very expensive product for their data center."

"It is not the most expensive option, and I believe the capabilities align well with the value it provides."

"Its pricing is very competitive. We get around 70% or 75%, sometimes even 80%, discount on the product. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

"Since we were at a large data center, the price might not have been a concern for us."

"The solution is only for large or medium size enterprises because it is expensive."

"The licensing cost is expensive."

"The price of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is greater than that of Red Hat's competitor solution"

"I would recommend that businesses look into the full price for their requirements. The price is high, but there are some open-source add-ons that can be used for customization while keeping costs down, although these might not be suitable for everyone."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

39%

Manufacturing Company

21%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database...

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What do you like most about Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pivotal Cloud Foundry?

I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.

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Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...

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What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Application Service?

The solution is integrated very well with a lot of other systems. Also, its GUI is very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Application Service?

The licensing cost is yearly. The licensing cost is expensive.

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Comparisons

Microsoft Azure vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 31% of the time

Red Hat OpenShift vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 23% of the time

Amazon AWS vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 17% of the time

Google Cloud vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 16% of the time

Cloud Foundry vs Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Compared 3% of the time

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Rancher Labs vs VMware Tanzu Platform

Compared 19% of the time

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform vs VMware Tanzu Platform

Compared 12% of the time

Nutanix Kubernetes Engine NKE vs VMware Tanzu Platform

Compared 12% of the time

Amazon EKS vs VMware Tanzu Platform

Compared 8% of the time

Amazon AWS vs VMware Tanzu Platform

Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)

Tanzu Application Catalog, Application Platform, Application Service, Hub, Mission Control, Service Mesh, Build Service, Concourse for VMware Tanzu

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Overview

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

VMware Tanzu Platform is designed for cloud-native development and management of Kubernetes, CI/CD processes, microservices, and containerized workloads. It supports deployments both on cloud and on-premises, providing centralized management via Mission Control.

VMware Tanzu Platform offers seamless integration with vSphere, ESX, and vSAN, supporting centralized cluster management and lifecycle management. The platform provides a GUI for monitoring CI/CD pipelines and network policies, enhancing multi-tenancy and Day 2 operations. Users can easily manage Kubernetes clusters, monitor applications, and integrate with tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Foundry, and Azure. It ensures compliance and security for service providers, financial institutions, and businesses.

What are the key features of VMware Tanzu Platform?

Integration with vSphere, ESX, and vSAN: Enhances compatibility and flexibility.
Seamless Cluster Management: Centralized control over Kubernetes clusters.
CI/CD Pipelines and Network Policies: Simplifies monitoring and management.
Multi-tenancy Support: Facilitates resource sharing among multiple users.
Comprehensive Lifecycle Management: Streamlines deployment and scalability.
Observability Platform: Provides enhanced visibility and control.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in VMware Tanzu Platform reviews?

Centralized Management: Simplifies operations and reduces manual effort.
Enhanced Compliance and Security: Meets regulatory requirements.
Flexibility in Deployment: Supports both cloud and on-premises options.
Seamless Integration: Works with multiple vendors and tools.
Developer-Friendly Environment: Improves productivity and innovation.

Industries such as financial institutions, service providers, and businesses requiring rigorous compliance and security deploy VMware Tanzu Platform. These entities benefit from centralized management, streamlined DevOps processes, and integrated tools, enhancing their capabilities in cloud-native developments and containerized workloads.

Sample Customers

Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank

Verizon, Cerner, Zipcar, Avarteq

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