# CDF Consuming Application

## Introduction

CDF consuming applications (aka a facade) is an application or layer that contains customer specific business logic and orchestrates the underlying CDF modules.

![sequence](images/cdf-consuming-module-sequence.png)

The above sequence diagram shows the interaction of the consumer application layer with the cdf modules.

## Deployment

Since the consumer application is dependent on CDF, the consumer application should be deployed after all required CDF modules have been deployed.