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→Why is it needed?
Please note that we can run any kind of app in container. It might be a headless app and it might be a webapp. In case of web applications we need to define an external port (mapped port on host - Refer to Architecture Overview section) through which the app will be bind. Then to reach that app we have to reverse proxy. "APP_PORT" is essentially that. For apps which don't require a web interface we might not use this file at all.
'''NOTE''': HOST_PORT and APP_PORT are basically same thing but in the code they are used at two different places with different names to avoid confusion as per the context. For example in the Reverse Proxy case, APP_PORT variable is present inside the file `app-container.conf`. Here we want to reverse proxy to an app running on some port so it was named as APP_PORT.For the HOST_PORT , it was used in app/models/app.rb file, their it represents the port to be used on the host machine and hence named that way. But for one particular app, value of HOST_PORT=APP_PORT.
==How to add a new app?==
