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Cloud Development and Deployment with CloudBees

By : Nicolas De loof
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Cloud Development and Deployment with CloudBees

By: Nicolas De loof

Overview of this book

CloudBees offers a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to build, run, manage web applications, and support the entire application lifecycle right from development to deployment.The development and deployment of web- and mobile-based Java applications are the basic services that CloudBees has to offer. With these services you can efficiently build and enhance applications, and connect them to existing networks and systems. Cloud Development and Deployment with CloudBees introduces you to the concept of Platform as a Service. It talks about the services in detail that developers can leverage in order to build, manage, and deploy their applications with ease onto the cloud. You will learn the intricacies of the CloudBees ecosystem and how it can be extended to match your specific requirements. Cloud Development and Deployment with CloudBees will get you started with the concepts of PaaS and why it is considered better than other forms of services. You will then learn to create and manage your account, understand the CloudBees ecosystem, and subscribe to the wide array of services available. After this, you will use the clickStart feature that will enable you to set up, run, and host your application on the cloud. You will also venture out into the development phase by understanding Jenkins and how it would help you to build, maintain, and integrate your project build. You will then learn how to use the RUN@CLOUD platform to host your application, and you will also delve into cloud concepts, and understand the architectural constraints and how to monitor the application. Finally, you will deep dive into the extensive capabilities of using clickStack to create or customize your own stack.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Cloud Development and Deployment with CloudBees
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Validated partner services


The CloudBees ecosystem, mentioned in detail at http://www.cloudbees.com/platform/ecosystem/tech-partners.cb, includes a larger set of third-party services. Most of them aren't available on the services subscription page as they are validated partner services.

Such third-party services aren't as integrated to the CloudBees platform as Sonar or SendGrid are. CloudBees worked with such partners to agree about the commercial relations, to check whether both the services can smoothly work together, and documented the integration steps in wiki, but there is no subscription or billing integration between them.

Even the user experience is not as smooth in such integrations. The main benefit is that adding new partners to the ecosystem doesn't require any lengthy integration work. So there are more opportunities for you to get adequate services for your own use. The services that are very popular could later evolve into integrated partners.

Thanks to this model, the CloudBees...