Copying an App

To copy an existing app you can use the copy application command. This creates a new app with the same configuration as your existing app with some minor exceptions that are explained below. In this example, the existing app named go-example in the currently active project is copied to a new app named go-example-v2.

nctl copy application go-example --target-name=go-example-v2

To copy an app to a different project, you can use the --target-project flag.

nctl copy application go-example --target-name=go-example-v2 --target-project=nine-project2

By default the copied app will be in paused state so you can review it and make adjustments before starting it. To override this behaviour you can pass the --start flag to the copy command to immediately start the copied app.

Similarly, the copy won't include the custom hosts by default. To override this behaviour you can pass the --copy-hosts flag to the copy command to also copy over all hosts of the existing app. When copying hosts, they will need to be verified again and the hosts need to be removed from the old app, in case it still exists, before they become active on the new app.