{"id":8959,"date":"2016-02-25T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.altoros.com\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2019-05-30T05:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T02:07:50","slug":"how-to-create-a-perfect-cloud-foundry-manifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/how-to-create-a-perfect-cloud-foundry-manifest\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Perfect Cloud Foundry Manifest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Altoros, we use YAML to build deployment manifests for Cloud Foundry and other related projects. 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