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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

CloudBees SDK


CloudBees SDK is an extensible command-line tool to manage CloudBees resources and services. Compared to web UI, it lets you manage all the advanced features for the CloudBees services, so it will quickly be necessary for you to manage your CloudBees applications.

Installation

You can download CloudBees SDK from http://wiki.cloudbees.com/bin/view/RUN/BeesSDK. This is a simple multiplatform ZIP file you can uncompress and then add the exploded path to your system path.

Mac users can also install CloudBees as a homebrew package using the command brew install cloudbees-sdk.

Then, run the bees init command and provide user credentials for SDK to set up your $HOME/.bees directory, and install the initial plugins as shown in the following screenshot:

Tip

CloudBees SDK uses plugins to provide commands. This extensible architecture allows engineering to provide additional features, such as the blue-green plugin we will experiment with later in this chapter, as well as technology partners...