To avail all services, you need to set up a CloudBees account. This process requires some registration steps and an initial setup before you are ready to do something productive. This chapter demonstrates how the CloudBees platform has been designed to lower this barrier and bring you to active application development as soon as possible.
To create an account, www.cloudbees.com provides a SIGN UP link. Registration is a simple process as the base services are free, so you only have to provide a valid e-mail address and some personal information.
A user on a CloudBees platform is identified by their e-mail address. Once you sign in, you create a user and domain to host your resources. This domain is sometimes called account in documentation, but is not tied to the user, because the user can access multiple domains, and a domain can be shared between a set of users with distinct roles. When you select a domain/account name, note that it will be used in all...