Using downloadable cartridges with OpenShift applications

In this recipe, you will learn how to use a third-party downloadable cartridge with OpenShift applications.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need rhc installed on your machine. Also, we will make use of the OpenShift application created in the Creating an OpenShift application using the rhc command-line client recipe.

How to do it…

To add the Monit downloadable cartridge, use the rhc add-cartridge command as shown in the following command. Please replace email@address.com with your valid email address:

$ rhc cartridge-add --app myapp https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift-cartridges/openshift-origin-cartridge-monit/master/metadata/manifest.yml --env MONIT_ALERT_EMAIL=email@address.com ...

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