Deploy Your Node.js App with the Cloud Foundry CLI

Create a manifest.yaml file in the nodetutorial directory. This file is the deployment descriptor and contains all required information to deploy an application to a SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry instance.

Copy the following content to the recently created file:

---
applications:
- name: myapp
  random-route: true
  path: myapp
  memory: 128M

The property random-route will generate a route, which does not conflict with any other application in the same Cloud Foundry instance.

You should now have the following directory structure:

nodetutorial
├── manifest.yaml
└── myapp
    ├── node_modules
    ├── package-lock.json
    ├── package.json
    └── server.js

Explanation for the manifest properties:

Refer to the official documentation for more fields of the manifest file.

Make sure you are logged in to your SAP Cloud Platform Cloud Foundry endpoint cf login and navigate to your space via cf space <SPACE>). Execute the following command inside the nodetutorial directory:

user@host:~/nodetutorial
=> cf push

Note:

Make sure you are logged in via cf login before, otherwise the push command will fail.
The Cloud Foundry command line interface implicitly uses the manifest.yaml file to deploy the application. After the deployment process the status of the application should be displayed in the command line:

To open the application in a browser, there are two ways to figure out the according URL. You should see the URL in the console output when the deployment has completed.

Or you could generally access the application overview. It shows among other information the URL. Accessing the application overview is done via:

user@host:~/nodetutorial
=> cf apps

Access the URL shown in this list. You should get a 'Hello World' response when accessing the web server at the according URL.