In the last chapter, we had visited the concepts of architecting and building apps for Cloud. This chapter explores the deployment of apps onto Cloud Foundry. It will enable you to understand how to deploy applications and have them running on Cloud Foundry.
By the end of this chapter, you will know the following:
- What you will need before you push an application to Cloud Foundry
- What are buildpacks and how they are used during deployment
- What are services and how to create them
- How to deploy apps onto Cloud Foundry
- How to update a deployed application
- What happens when an app is deployed on Cloud Foundry
- How to scale applications
- How to access application logs
- Using Apps Manager