hello@scotchmedia.com

Deploying to AppFog

  1. Install the af gem you must have Ruby and Ruby Gem's installed:

     $ gem install af

    For more info on the af gem please see AppFog Getting Started.

  1. Login into your AppFog account:

     $ af login youremail@example.com --passwd secret1

  2. Uploading to AppFog

     $ app push

    Results in a walk through of available options:

     Would you like to deploy from the current directory? [Yn]: Y
 Application Name: scotchmedia
 Detected a Node.js Application, is this correct? [Yn]: Y
 1: AWS US East - Virginia
 2: AWS EU West - Ireland
 3: AWS Asia SE - Singapore
 4: Rackspace AZ 1 - Dallas
 5: HP AZ 2 - Las Vegas
 Select Infrastructure: 1
 Application Deployed URL [scotchmedia.aws.af.cm]:
 Memory reservation (128M, 256M, 512M, 1G, 2G) [64M]: 128M
 How many instances? [1]: 1
 Create services to bind to 'scotchmedia'? [yN]: N
 Would you like to save this configuration? [yN]: y
 Manifest written to manifest.yml.
 Creating Application: OK
 Uploading Application:
   Checking for available resources: OK
   Processing resources: OK
   Packing application: OK
   Uploading (71K): OK
 Push Status: OK
 Staging Application 'scotchmedia': OK
 Starting Application 'scotchmedia': OK

  3. Map the your custom url to the Appfog url:

     $ af map scotchmedia http://www.scothmedia.com

    Upadte you DNS record to point to AppFog

    Please read Custom Domain Names for more info.

  4. Create a manifest.yml file:

    [Mainifests][] You can use manifest documents with AppFog to simplify app deployment. These manifest documents describe apps in human-editable format. They can also describe anything from simple “Hello World” apps to complex multi-app hierarchies with inter-app dependencies and service binding information.

    manifest.yml

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