Using downloadable cartridges with OpenShift applications
In this recipe, you will learn how to use a third-party downloadable cartridge with OpenShift applications.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need rhc installed on your machine. Also, we will 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 add the Monit downloadable cartridge, use the rhc add-cartridge command as shown in the following command. Please replace email@address.com with your valid email address:
$ rhc cartridge-add --app myapp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift-cartridges/openshift-origin-cartridge-monit/master/metadata/manifest.yml --env MONIT_ALERT_EMAIL=email@address.com
The --env option is used to set the environment variable required by this cartridge. The cartridge required the MONIT_ALERT_EMAIL environment variable, which is used to configure e-mail that would be used to send alert notifications...
