This document discusses key aspects of cloud native applications and platforms. It notes there is consensus around cloud native traits like containers, microservices, platform independence, and automation. Cloud Foundry is presented as a platform that can deploy and manage cloud native applications by providing automated scaling, routing, service integration, and other capabilities through declarative configuration. The platform handles tasks like detecting application frameworks, linking to services, self-service deployment, routing, versioning, upgrades, scaling, and more through simple commands. This allows developers to focus on their code while the platform manages the complex runtime environment.