What this book covers

Chapter 1, What's a PaaS and Why CloudBees?, introduces the concept of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and why this is the best place for a developer to start using Cloud services. We will also introduce CloudBees high-level vision of PaaS.

Chapter 2, Getting Started Quickly, covers setting up your CloudBees account and using ClickStart to get an application ready to develop within a minute. Also, it explores the services provided by the CloudBees platform.

Chapter 3, Users, Domains, and Services, explores the CloudBees platform from a user management point of view. It also covers the service ecosystem that makes the CloudBees platform extensible to match your requirements.

Chapter 4, ClickStart in Depth, gets deeper into the concepts of ClickStart and demonstrates how to use it in order to improve your own efficiency.

Chapter 5, Managing Your Build, demonstrates the use of the DEV@cloud platform to drive your project build and development workflow.

Chapter 6, Running Your Applications, explores the application-hosting service and options to manage your application scalability and security.

Chapter 7, Tools, demonstrates the advanced use of the CloudBees platform using the SDK, as well as other development tool integrations.

Chapter 8, Using ClickStack to Extend the Platform, gets deeper in to the RUN platform and its extensibility capabilities. It demonstrates how to select an alternate stack, customize, or create your own ClickStack.