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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

Setting up an application using ClickStart


On the GrandCentral welcome page, you probably noticed the big black ClickStart button.

This option gives you a list of available wizards to create typical applications based on a set of popular frameworks. From the list of available ClickStart options, you will notice that CloudBees is not just Java-specific, but we will discuss this further in later chapters.

So let's choose a classic Tomcat 7 ClickStart option for this guide as shown in the following screenshot:

ClickStart to get application set up in few clicks

ClickStart asks you for the application name and handles all the resource initializations to prepare a development pipeline for the requested framework. This means the following:

  • Git repository, hosted on CloudBees forge, with initial code source is committed

  • Jenkins build to compile, test, and package the application

  • Jenkins deployer is configured to deploy the resulting artifact on RUN@cloud up on build success

  • The RUN@cloud application...