What is the Cloud Foundry Apps Manager?
- A web interface for managing organizations, spaces, apps, and other settings
- It offers a subset of the management features available through the cf CLI
- It provides you with a marketplace of services you can attach and leverage in your application development
Recall that, after signing up for the PWS account and logging in to it, we had a glimpse of the Apps Manager UI running at https://console.run.pivotal.io. Now with a simple app deployed, you can see the app named hello world-RANDOM-WORD
running successfully in the Apps Manager.
The information includes the status, the number of instances running, when the app was last pushed, and the route, Cloud Foundry's term for the application URL:
The Apps Manager gives us a subset of the functionality of the cf CLI. Behind the scenes, it is talking to the same RESTful endpoint that the cf CLI talks to and is doing much of the same work for us. We won't spend a lot of time on the...