I talk about Python a lot here but at work we also write quite a bit of Java (with Spring of course). Since it hit 1.0 in 2016, I’ve been hearing more and more about Kotlin as a viable alternative to standard Java on the JVM. At Pivotal we’re seeing clients start to use Kotlin because of its brevity compared to Java, the ease of use of existing Java based libraries, the adoption by Google for Android, and the (relatively new) ability to also target Javascript.

In this post I want to answer the question: What do you have to do to run a Django web app on Cloud Foundry in 2017? In the past, a few other people have described their approaches, but given that Cloud Foundry is continuously changing and improving, I thought it would be good to revisit the topic and learn about Python & Django support in 2017. Python on Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is a polyglot application deployment system.