Question
How to use app-spec.yaml in App Platform and doctl?
- Posted on January 22, 2021
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by elenaRay
Hello everyone, I don’t understand from documentation how to use App Platform with doctl. Specifically, how can I release a deployment with a yaml contained in the repository? I see that there is the following command:
doctl apps create-deployment
But I don’t understand how to connect the yaml file. And in general the auto deploy connected to a branch how do you tell it to use the yaml file present in the repository?
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Thanks very much Bojand for your explanation. Last question if I can ask:
I have a Laravel app. In the first deploy, example, I have to launch the following commands:
php artisan migrate php artisan db:seed
In a second release I have the following command:
php artisan optimize
What is the best practice? Update commands in dashboard or other?
Thanks in advance
Hello, sorry if this is misleading help text. A deployment is an instance of an app in time. This is implying that the deployment created will use whatever the current spec of the app is within App Platform. We will try and improve this wording.
The app spec yaml file is used to create an app using
doctlCLI.Alternatively you can create an app using the dashboard by connecting to source control such as GitHub or GitLab.
Regardless of the creation mechanism, once an app is created, you can initiate a new deployment using the command:
You can get app IDs by listing apps:
You can retrieve the app’s spec using spec command:
The app spec is only used to create or update an app.
Here are command line documentation
Hope this helps!