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There are many good designs and patterns for building cloud-based applications. In the Linux container world, we have a choice of hand-crafting a set of linked services or using some of the declarative tooling like Docker stacks or Kubernetes pods. These can be deployed to any number of on-prem or public platforms. At a higher level of abstraction, systems such as Pantheon and Heroku promote one-command definition and deployment of web applications and services, which is achieved, in part, through use of simple configuration files coupled with a connection to the deployment host. These systems advance the promise of maintainability and reusability offered by containers, package registries, source code managers, config management tools, and hosted deployment environments.

We have adopted some of the best practices from popular systems and platforms to make it easy to build, deploy, and maintain Tapis apps and actors. One of these practices to offer a robust and usable CLI. Another is to allow automation of common tasks to enable reusability and decrease user error. To this end, the Tapis CLI features a deploy subcommand for the apps and actors APIs. The concept is that every step required in deploying a Tapis resource should be achievable by cd-ing into a project directory and running tapis apps deploy or tapis actors deploy