Rob Allen has a new post to his site today showing you how to deploy your PHP application to Cloud Foundry, an open source cloud platform that helps to automate deployment onto multiple cloud infrastructures.

I recently had a requirement to deploy a Slim application somewhere. As I already have a Bluemix account, it seemed sensible to deploy it to their Application Runtimes service which is an installation of the Open Source Cloud Foundry project.

This turned out to be quite easy, but there are a number of steps involved, so I'm documenting it here.

After installing some of the command line tools he then prepares the PHP application by selecting a version, creating a manifest file, setting up buildpack options and defining rewrite rules. He then walks you through the deployment steps required to push the code out to the Bluemix host via Cloud Foundry, including the commands needed to make it all work.