Hey there!

There were some questions in the CAB call yesterday about the readiness of
cf-deployment <https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-deployment>, so I
thought I'd share a few thoughts that would be valuable to share more
broadly.

Several teams in the Cloud Foundry foundation already use cf-deployment in
their testing pipelines successfully. If you need to deploy CF for
*development* or *testing*, cf-deployment is good to go. In fact, if you
use bbl <https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-bootloader> and
cf-deployment together, you can spin up a new environment really easily.

If you're hoping for something that's ready for *production*,
cf-deployment isn't quite there. There are two things standing in the way:
1) Being able to guarantee rolling deployments without downtime.
2) Providing a way to migrate a deployment from using cf-release to using
cf-deployment.
The Release Integration team is working on this, and I'll make sure to let
everyone know when we think it's ready.

If you're curious about cf-deployment, or ever have a question about it,
please join us in the #cf-deployment slack channel. The Release Integration
team posts updates about cf-deployment there. I'll also send updates to
this email list for anybody else following along.

Thanks!
David Sabeti
Release Integration PM