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  "description": "Cloud Foundry is an open-source, multi-cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. It provides a highly automated developer experience that abstracts away underlying infrastructure, allowing teams to deploy and scale applications using a simple command-line interface. Originally developed by VMware and Pivotal, it is widely used by Global 2000 enterprises for mission-critical application hosting.",
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      "Raw Kubernetes (DIY): Using general-purpose container orchestrators like Kubernetes which require significant manual configuration of ingress, logging, and monitoring.",
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