Cloud Platform Professional subscribers may create an application at any time. You must be an Owner or Administrator to create an application using the Cloud Platform user interface. Cloud Platform Professional subscribers can purchase an application with credit card.

The number of applications you can create in your subscription depends on your subscription level. For more information, see Cloud Platform Pricing.

To create an application:

1. Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.

2. On the Applications page, click Add Application.

   

   The Add Application page opens.

   By default, the system selects Purchase a new Cloud Platform Professional subscription.

   

3. Enter the Application name for your new application.

   The application name you choose will be your application’s UNIX username and code repository name. Application names must meet these requirements:

   • Consist of at least four, but no more than 21, characters
   • Consist only of lowercase, alphanumeric (a-z, 0–9) characters— special characters aren’t supported
   • The first character must be alphabetic (a-z) and can’t be numeric

   For more information about your application name, see Sitename definition.

4. Click Add.

Cloud Platform creates the application. Your new application’s environments initially contain a default welcome message. Use one of the following options to create a working Drupal application:

• Installing a Drupal distribution
• Importing an existing application

Don’t forget to set up SSH access so you can log in to your infrastructure using the command line.