SSH into the application gear using rhc
In this recipe, you will learn how to use rhc to SSH into the application gear.
Getting ready
In order to complete this recipe, you will need rhc installed on your machine. Also, you will need to make use of the OpenShift application created in The Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe.
How to do it…
To SSH into the application gear, open a new command-line terminal and run the following command:
$ rhc ssh --app myapp
The --app option is not required if you are running the command within the application Git repository.
How it works…
Every OpenShift application gear acts and behaves like a virtual server that you can access using SSH. A gear is assigned a unique user ID and is associated with a SELinux context. When you run the rhc ssh command, a secure communication channel is opened between the node hosting the gear and the local machine where you are presented with a limited shell within the environment, as shown in...
