[2][3][4] At the time, a different PaaS project written in Java for Amazon EC2 used the name Cloud Foundry.

A year later, in April 2012, BOSH, an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment, and life-cycle management of large scale distributed services, was publicly launched.

[6] In April 2013, Pivotal was created from EMC and VMware, to market assets including Cloud Foundry, RabbitMQ and Spring.

[11] Following the creation of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the Cloud Foundry software (source code and all associated trademarks) was transferred to be held by the open source software foundation.

[13] The foundation serves as a neutral party holding all Cloud Foundry intellectual property.

The Foundation holds two contributed types of intellectual property: trademarks and a copyright on the collective work of the community.

Applications deployed to Cloud Foundry access external resources via an Open Service Broker API, which was launched in December 2016.

[23] It is also possible to install Cloud Foundry using a BOSH-Lite Vagrant virtual machine.