share app

background：

When we are currently using Rainbond, in order to quickly deploy some applications, we can connect to the open source application store and install it with one click.In this way, for users, it can be installed directly using some open source applications or infrastructure.

However, due to the different needs of each user, the app store cannot meet the needs of all users.For example, some users have encountered the following problems when using：

• The application installed from the application market is very convenient to use, but the version is relatively low, and there is no version you want

• My business uses some common middleware. After running it in the Rainbond development environment, it needs to be deployed again in the production environment.

• After running some open source projects on Rainbond, if you rebuild the Rainbond environment, you need to deal with various dependencies again before deploying

When these problems were encountered before, users had to deal with them manually.But now we’ve provided a way for you to share your own apps.It is convenient for your own use and for others to use.To do this, we need to first understand what Rainstore is.

What is Rainstore?

Rainstore is a platform that can manage the enterprise application delivery process and realize the whole process management of the store.

For most users who have used Rainbond, they should have noticed the application market, which will connect to our own store：open source application store by default.This store is the store we created based on Rainstore.In this store, there will be applications made by us. Users only need to complete the authorization to install the application with one click.

Of course, the premise that users can install with one click is that someone has made the application.If no one has made an app, when you encounter the above problem, you can only post to the community for help, but now, you can do it.

You can share your own apps to the open source app store for everyone to use.

How to share apps?

When you want to make your own application for yourself or others to use, you will go through the following steps：

• Connect with open source app stores to obtain app publishing permissions

• To make your application, you can refer to the Rainbond application market application production specification, and verify the pass

• Publish your app for everyone to use

The first step：docking store

If you have not connected to the open source app store before, then you only need to enter your mobile phone number on the following page, log in with the verification code, and we will create a user for you and give you the corresponding permissions.

If you have connected to the app store before, you need to perform the following operations to re-acquire publishing authorization.

1. Find the app market in Rainbond, switch to the Tab page of the open source app store, and click Edit

2. Clear the accesskey and click Save.After the save is complete, you will see that you only have read-only permissions.

3. At this point, select an application at random, click Install, and the authentication dialog box will pop up again.

4. Finally, enter the mobile phone number, and the verification code can be connected.

After you complete the above steps, you will see that the open source app store has the following permissions：read-only, install, push apps.At this point the preparatory work is completed.

The second step：make the application

The next step is to make your application, here we take harbor as an example.The current version of harbor in the app store is lower.When we want a higher version, but the app store doesn’t provide it.We can make a harbor application and share it by ourselves.

For the applications we made before, we will share the application making tutorials with the community. Take this harbor as an example, we can refer to the deployment ofenterprise-level Docker image warehouse Harbor on Rainbond.Here we refer to this article to make a harbor application of version 2.3.As shown below

Step 3：Share the app

At this point, select Publish on the left, publish to the cloud application store, and select the open source application store.

Next we need to create a new application template.Fill in the corresponding version number.Choose to publish.After the image push is completed and confirmed, the app is successfully shared.

caution

Note：You must create a new application template, you cannot push the version to other people’s applications.

At this point we create a new application template：Harbor application.As shown below

Next, after selecting the corresponding version and submitting it, the component image will be synchronized. After the image synchronization is completed, click Confirm to publish, that is, the sharing is complete.

Step 4：Supplementary Information

You have finished sharing, but now the application has only one name, and the others are default values. Others cannot understand what the application is. In order for others to better understand the application and be willing to use it, we need to go to the application store. Supplementary relevant information.

The website of the app store is https://hub.grapps.cn/enterprise/login. On this page, select the mobile phone verification code to log in, enter the mobile phone number you used when applying for authorization in Rainbond, and after logging in, select store management, and you can I saw the app you posted.

Click on the app you just released, and we can edit the introduction of the app, upload the corresponding Logo, etc.

After completing these, we enter the package management, create a package, and put the application on the shelf.The purpose of listing the application is to allow more people to see this application.That is, you can see your published applications in theopen source application store.

The package type is free, and the name can be the corresponding version.After saving, go back to the background management page, and click on the shelf in the application list.

At this point, your first app sharing is complete.

What are you sharing?

Rainbond proposes an application model, the Rainbond Application Model (RAM), which is the standard Rainbond application specification.During the software delivery process, Rainbond abstracts the business system into an application model. As long as the business system can run normally in Rainbond, it can be released to the application market through the application template.

The abstraction of the RAM model includes all the service components and the associations between the components contained in the enterprise application.This high-level abstraction has nothing to do with how many service components are included in the enterprise application, and whether the relationship between the components is complex.The application template (the specific implementation of the RAM model in the application market field) can be released to the Rainbond-specific application market, and the released application template can be regarded as the installation package of the enterprise application, no matter how complicated the original architecture is and the number of internal components, it can be Complete one-click installation and upgrade.

The RAM model is working hard to evolve towards the Open Application Model (OAM) in order to accommodate the wider delivery domain.OAM is a newly proposed application model in the industry, which is designed to deliver more robust enterprise applications in complex environments in a simple manner.

How do I manage my shared apps?

how to use

Now that the sharing has been completed, how should it be used at this time? You can search for your application in the open source application store, select Install on the right, and install it under an application to deploy with one click.

The deployment effect is shown in the following figure.Wait for the build to complete, you can access

Manage applications

If you make any adjustments to the application in the future and need to manage the application-related information, you still need to log in to the app store, log in with your mobile phone number, and complete the application-related operations in the store management.

final effect

After completing the above steps, we can see the effect.Visit theopen source app store , search for your app, here you can see the number of visits and installs of the app.You can see that we have just completed an installation.

After clicking into it, you can see your application profile and related information, as shown below.

On the right side of this page, your relevant information is displayed.You can click on your name to enter the aggregation page of your personal information. On this page, your own related information and all applications published will be displayed here.

Since you log in with your mobile phone number and the data is not complete, you can choose to enter the background, move the mouse to the avatar in the upper right corner, and modify the information.

Summarize

Through the above steps, we have completed the sharing of an application, which solved the problem that the previous application store application did not meet our needs, and also allowed others to use the application you made.Everyone is welcome to contribute your own applications.If you have made a good application, please contact us, we can make your application available to more people through some channels of publicity.