Cloudnode Documentation

Deploy your Node.js applications using git and use our infrastructure to host your applications on specialized Virtual Node Machines.

Getting Started

Cloudnode has many documents to help. To get started read the Quick Start Guide. Then browse and read the documents on the left side.

Support

If you can’t find the resources you are looking for, or need any help, open a ticket from your dashboard.

User’s Guide

These documents are also available as an eBook for your preferred reader:

• cloudnode.pdf— Cloudnode User’s Guide (latest build)
• cloudnode.epub — Cloudnode User’s Guide (latest build)

Contents:

• Quick Start Guide
  • Create a new cloudnode app
  • Initialize your local working copy
  • Commit to your new app and deploy
  • Hello World sample (server.js)
• Prerequisites
  • Required Software
  • Best Practices
  • Read-only Filesystem
  • Logs
  • Dependency Management
  • App Initialization
  • Git
• Support Resources
• Cloudnode Command Line
  • Installation
  • Usage
• Cloudnode Developer Shell
  • Getting Started
  • Features
  • Web preview
  • Use Cases
• Node Package Manager
• API
  • Status
  • User
  • App
  • Apps
  • Env
  • NPM
  • Appdomains - Add DNS A Record
  • CLI Commands
  • Git
• Git
  • Cloudnode Remote
  • Branches
  • Special Directories
  • Submodules
• Troubleshooting
  • Login to the Cloudnode web site
  • Using the API / CLI
  • SSH issues
  • Permission denied (publickey)
  • Finding out what keys ssh is using
  • SSH private key passphrases
  • Analysing the application log files
  • Cloudnode Community Channnel
  • Open a ticket
• Node.js
  • Preparing for deployment
  • Deploying to Cloudnode
  • Dependencies
• CouchDB
  • CouchDB Administration
  • CouchDB Credentials
  • Usage Example
• MongoDB
  • MongoDB Administration
  • MongoDB Credentials
  • MongoDB Backups
  • Usage Example
• Redis
  • Redis Administration
  • Redis Authorization
  • Redis Backups
  • Usage Example
• SSL
• HTTP Caching
  • Cache Invalidation
  • Cache TTL Control
• Cloud Storage
  • Special Directories
• Custom Domains
  • Example CNAME Record
  • Steps to activate a custom domain on Cloudnode
• Deploy Hooks