1. Personal Experience

You should have experience with Java software development, the Spring Framework, with Git and GitHub, with the maven build system, and general facility with the command line.

2. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Environment

You’ll need access to a Pivotal Cloud Foundry Environment, with the Spring Cloud Services PCF Tile installed, and a workspace in cloudfoundry with perhaps 6GB of memory quota.

3. Software Requirements

You should have the following installed on your local machine:

  1. Java Development Kit 1.8

  2. Maven

  3. git

  4. The CloudFoundry CLI

  5. Spring Tool Suite or some Java IDE

If you are on a Mac and using homebrew, you can install the cloudfoundry cli as follows:

$ brew tap cloudfoundry/tap
$ brew install cf-cli

Also, these tools are useful:

  1. curl or httpie

  2. Json Formatter

Finally, some of the labs will require you to have a publicly accessible git repository. One simple way to achieve this is by obtaining a GitHub account.