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Book Description

A practical guide to getting started with AppFog to deploy and manage your apps

  • Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
  • Deploy and manage your applications on AppFog easily using the AppFog tools and web console
  • Secure your application using SSL on AppFog
  • Manage add-ons for your application for other services such ask load tests and logging

In Detail

Publishing applications to the web takes a lot of effort from hardware, firewalls, databases, and your network setup. is the AppFog platform has evolved over the years to enable developers to publish applications in minutes with simple steps. Using AppFog, now developers can focus on developing their applications rather than worrying about up-time, firewalls, and applying OS security patches. AppFog allows developers to easily deploy their applications, scale up and down instantly, and use third party feature-rich add-ons to enhance their applications.

Instant AppFog Starter is a step-by-step guide that will provide you with all the information you need to deploy applications to AppFog. This book will teach you how to use the AppFog platform to scale, maintain, and manage your application on the cloud. This starter book provides easy to understand steps to deploy, implement your application on the AppFog platform, as well as knowledge about the community around it.

Instant AppFog Starter will guide you through how to prepare your environment for installing the AppFog tool. You will learn how to deploy applications using AppFog’s jump start feature, as well as how to manage your application and scale up and down instantly using AppFog.

Instant AppFog Starter is a step-by-step guide that will provide you with all the information you need to deploy applications to AppFog. This book will teach you how to use the AppFog platform to scale, maintain, and manage your application on the cloud. This starter book provides easy to understand steps to implement your application on the AppFog platform, as well as knowledge about the community around it.

Table of Contents

  1. Instant AppFog
    1. Instant AppFog
    2. Credits
    3. About the Author
    4. About the Reviewer
    5. www.packtpub.com
      1. Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
    6. packtlib.packtpub.com
      1. Why Subscribe?
      2. Free Access for Packt account holders
    7. 1. Instant AppFog
      1. So, what is AppFog?
        1. Introduction to AppFog
        2. AppFog features
        3. AppFog tools
      2. Installation
        1. Step 1 – sign up to AppFog
        2. Step 2 – installing Ruby
        3. Step 3 – installing af
        4. Step 4 – running Ruby on Rails
        5. Step 5 – setting up the database
      3. Quick start – deploying and managing your first app
        1. Jump start
        2. The AppFog platform
        3. Deploying applications
        4. Horizontal and vertical scaling
        5. Services
        6. Custom domain name
          1. Subdomain
          2. Root domain
          3. Subdomain or root domain?
          4. Mapping a custom domain
        7. Environment variable
      4. Top 7 features you need to know about
        1. Auto reconfigure
          1. Enabling auto reconfigure
          2. Disabling auto reconfigure
            1. Java Spring application
            2. Ruby on Rails
        2. Custom SSL
          1. The Install tool
          2. Generating a private key
          3. Generating Certificate Signing Request
          4. Installing the SSL certificate
        3. Teams
        4. Third-party add-ons
          1. Installing an add-on
          2. Managing add-ons
          3. Configuring Rails to use Logentries
        5. Tunnel
          1. Tunnel to service
        6. Export/import service
        7. Cloning
          1. Choosing an infrastructure
          2. Choosing a subdomain
      5. People and places you should get to know
        1. Official sites
        2. Articles and tutorials
        3. Community
        4. Blogs
        5. Twitter
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