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Implementing AppFog

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Implementing AppFog

Overview of this book

AppFog is the leading platform-as-a-service provider of PHP, Ruby, Node.js, and Java solutions. It is used by developers worldwide to deploy tens of thousands of applications. AppFog delivers a reliable, scalable, and fast platform for deploying applications in the cloud.This book is a hands-on guide that will walk you through creating and deploying applications to the cloud using AppFog, which will allow you to get your application deployed without the hassle of setting up servers.This book demonstrates how to use the AppFog service to build an application and have it running in the Cloud. It will walk you through the initial AppFog setup process and explain how to create your first application in minutes.You will also discover how to use services such as databases to make your applications more powerful. You will also learn how to create applications from scratch.You will find out everything you need to know to get an application running in the cloud for the first time.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Implementing AppFog
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Finding help


To start, there are two commands you can use to find more information about all the commands listed in this chapter.

Command

Description

af help [command]

Without any command, this will list all the possible commands. When you supply a parameter, this will give details about the usage for that command.

af help options

Lists options that are used for various commands. For example, you can use --verbose for more detailed output.

By typing just af help, you will get a list of all the available commands. These commands will be explained later in this chapter.

If you want more information about one command, you can pass along the name of the command to get usage details. For example:

$ af help login