github.com/bhameyie/otto@v0.2.1-0.20160406174117-16052efa52ec/website/source/docs/directory/index.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "docs" 3 page_title: "Directory Backends - Appfile" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-directory" 5 description: |- 6 Application dependencies and Appfile imports both take a URL as a parameter 7 to tell Otto where to load the external Appfile. 8 --- 9 10 # Directory Backends 11 12 The ["directory"](/docs/concepts/directory.html) is the name for the layer in 13 Otto that stores the state of all infrastructures, applications, deploys, 14 builds, etc. 15 16 Please read the [directory concepts](/docs/concepts/directory.html) page 17 for more information prior to reading about the various backends. 18 19 By default, Otto uses a local directory backend that stores data at 20 `~/.otto.d/directory/otto.db`. This is not well suited for sharing data 21 in a team and is not currently configurable. 22 23 For Otto 0.1, we focused on the single developer experience. In upcoming 24 releases, we'll be focusing more on teamwork. This will involve adding more 25 directory backends and making them more configurable.