How to deploy Etherpad Lite on Cloudfoundry

In case you're not familiar with Cloud Foundry, it's an opensource platform as a service (PaaS) project sponsored by Pivotal (R&D brand from Vmware). https://github.com/cloudfoundry

Register pivotal.io account (if you haven't a cloudfoundry instance)

1. Register an account at https://run.pivotal.io/
2. Install cloudfoundry command line tool Download it here
3. open a terminal
4. Login using your cf account cf login -a api.run.pivotal.io -u [email protected] -p your_password

Get the code and configure

1. Get etherpad code with cf support, download the latest etherpad-lite-cf.zip from here: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/etherpad-lite-cf/releases
2. extract the .zip file where you want
3. Adjust the settings.json to your liking (NOTE: do not configure any port on it! ).

Upload your etherpad-lite to your cloudfoundry instance

1. Go to the extracted archive with your console
2. Run cf push etherpad-lite-<your_name> -m 512M
3. You've done