Pivotal CF is a platform as a service that provides containerization and scheduling of applications across clusters, native and extended data services, and automatic configuration of application servers and operating systems using buildpacks. It also offers policy, identity and role management, application health monitoring, load balancing, rapid scaling, and availability zones. Additionally, Pivotal CF handles infrastructure as a service provisioning, scaling and configuration, application network security, binding applications to services, and provides logging, metrics, performance monitoring and metric-based scaling.