PCF 2.6 Feature – App Revisions

Overview

Developers, who have been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) have been asking the question of how they know which version of Application PCF is running. We used to check this in on-premise by going to that VM and checking the jar version. Also, performing a rollback smoothly for PCF deployments at the SCM (Github) or CI/CD level is painful and risk-prone. It involves verification, approval and other deployment processes.

With PCF 2.6, Pivotal has come up with a feature called App Revisions. Using this feature, we can rollback the deployment for an application very easily. In this article, we will try to understand this feature and walk through the steps for rollback.