Managing applications in OpenShift

At first, it might appear difficult to manage your application on a remote server. Once you have learned the commands to manage your application, this concern should be greatly reduced.

In order to control your applications, you can use the rhc app command, which takes the action to be performed and the -a command that specifies the application name. For example:

$rhc app restart -a app_name

The following table shows the list of commands available to manage your applications. You can view the list of available options via the command line, using the --help flag:

Option	Description
start	Starts an application
stop	Stops an application that is currently running
force-stop	Kills the application's processes
restart	Restarts an application
reload	Reloads an application
delete	Deletes an application
configure	Configures properties for an application
create	Creates an application
deploy	Deploys an application
scale-up	Scales...