How to download the app with the CLI from the Swisscom App Cloud?

Question

I am trying to download my app wich is currently running in the Swisscom App Cloud.

Therefore I installed the cf-download plugin.

My command: cf download a

Answer 1

You can do that with an API call

Apps API Downloads the staged droplet for an App GET /v2/apps/:guid/droplet/download When using a remote blobstore, such as AWS, the response is a redirect to the actual location of the droplet.

step by step:

cf app $APP --guid
cf curl /v2/apps/$GUID/droplet/download > testing.gz
tar -xzvf testing.gz

I successfully tested it on Swisscom App Cloud.