Automate DevOps with Otto

Configure your development environment and deploy it on the cloud using Otto About This Book * Unleash the power of Otto to configure your development environment automatically irrespective of your application type * Automate the development and deployment of applications on any cloud platform * A comprehensive and practical guide to Otto that understands your applications and increases your productivity Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers or a technically-minded people interested in the web development and DevOps field. No knowledge of Otto is required. What You Will Learn * Get to know more about Otto Commands * Integrate Otto into the development process * See how to use AppFile to customize the configuration in Otto * Tear down an application through Otto * Deploy an app to Amazon Web Services In Detail Configuring a development environment manually and defining every dependency with your application initially used to be a very strenuous task for any application developer.
In order to overcome this, Otto, a successor to Vagrant, was developed to help you automatically build a dynamic development environment that detects your application type and configures dependencies easily, as well as building and deploying it on any cloud platform. In this book, you will learn how to manage the deployment of web-based applications using Otto. We start with an introduction to Otto, and demonstrate how to get your project deployed onto AWS and integrate Otto into your development process. We will then focus on the infrastructure part of Otto and the options and features available to edit its infrastructure. You'll see how it automates the development environment followed by building the application on a particular cloud platform and deploying it as well. You will not only become proficient with the build process of Otto, but will also be able to deploy to see the working app live on the internet. Towards the end, you will build a PHP social network and use Otto to deploy the application to Amazon Web Services.