introduction to bluemix by: ryan baxter @ryanjbaxter
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Introduction To BlueMix
By: Ryan Baxter@ryanjbaxter
http://ryanjbaxter.com
How Long Would It Take You To... Install runtime, container, and all libraries
Install needed services (databases, messaging, mobile, etc)
Bind the services to the application, handle IP/port assignments
Setup dynamic routing and load-balancer
Setup four layers of built-in High-Availability
Setup streaming logging aggregation
Setup application performance monitoring
Scale the application up to X instances
….Repeat for dev, test, and production
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What Is BlueMix? A platform for running virtually any application in
the cloud without having to worry about the hardware, software, and networking needed to do so.
This definition is usually what we refer to as a platform-as-a-service or PaaS
BlueMix is similar to other platforms you may have heard of Heroku, Google Cloud Environment, OpenShift, Pivotal
One
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How Everything Fits Together A PaaS is software that is
usually running on top of an IaaS and abstracts the complexities of the IaaS away BlueMix runs on top of
Softlayer
Your app runs on top of BlueMix and has no knowledge of the IaaS layer
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IaaS (Softlayer)
PaaS (BlueMix)
Your App
Why Not Just Use IaaS? It might be just as easy to get started at the IaaS
layer if you use a prebuild image Over time though the maintenance of this image
increases the cost OS updates, security updates, new versions of libraries,
DNS and networking changes, configuration and maintenance of other services like DBs, etc
At the PaaS layer all of this cost disappears! The platform takes care of it for you!
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Benefits Of Using BlueMix Save time by just worrying about the code and not
the infrastructure Quickly get your app in the hands of your users –
deploying your app is a matter of running a single command
Easily add functionality to your application using IBM and partner provided services
Use the languages, runtimes, and frameworks that you are most familiar with
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BlueMix Open Beta BlueMix is currently in open beta, you need to
register to get going During the beta you get 8GB of memory to use across as
many apps as you want and can provision up to 20 services
Register at bluemix.net, you need an IBM ID
Once you have been approved you can start using the many tools available to you to deploy your apps
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Cloud Foundry And BlueMix BlueMix is built upon an open
source project called Cloud Foundry IBM contributes to the project and
is a founding member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation
All tools, documentation, and samples for Cloud Foundry are relevant and can be used with BlueMix
Buildpacks, Services, CLI, Scaling, etc are Cloud Foundry concepts
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You Choose The Runtime!
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Buildpack Anatomy
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Runtime
Container Libraries
Application
Buildpack
BlueMix Services Services allow you to add
functionality to your application with minimal cost and effort Select service and plan, then
bind to your application
Once a service is bound to your application information to use the service is available in an environment variable called VCAP_SERVICES
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Scaling BlueMix allows you to scale
your application horizontally and vertically within minutes
If the load on your application increases/decreases you may want to adjust the number of instances to handle the load
If you find the resources available to your app is tight you can increase the memory
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So What About Notes and Domino?
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Cannot deploy NSFs to BlueMix Talk to Pete Janzen if this is
something your want
But you can still leverage your Domino data even though it is not hosted on BlueMix
Domino REST Services
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Use Cast Iron To Connect Through The Firewall15
External Cloud EnterpriseBlueMix
Cloud EnterpriseBlueMix External
External EnterpriseBlueMix Cloud
ExternalBlueMix Cloud Enterprise
User leverages BlueMix-hosted services such as grid, analytics, or Mongo via APIs
User invokes external
services through APIs
User integrates external SaaS
clouds via integration
service
User accesses on-premise Enterprise
SoRs through secure connectors
and APIs
console.log("Hi World");
Resources Documentation: https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/
index.jsp developerWorks: http://developer.ibm.com/bluemix
Sample Apps & Tutorials: https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/docs/articles/, https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/docs/sample-code/
Developer Forum: https://www.ibmdw.net/answers/?community=bluemix
Blog: https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/blog/
Twitter: #BlueMix
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Virtual Meetup Please encourage all partners and customers to
attend our Virtual Meetup on May 21st
Technical meetup targeting developers looking to get started building apps
http://bit.ly/introbluemix
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Backup
Creating Apps In The BlueMix UI You can create an
application in the BlueMix UI by going to the catalog and choosing a boilerplate or runtime
Boilerplate = code + service
Runtime = code
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Using The Dashboard You will be brought
to the dashboard which will now have a tile for your app
Click the tile to see additional details about your app
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View The Guide To Download The Source
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Updating The Source Downloading the source code may be good for
learning but you are most likely not going to use any of it In fact it is not even necessary to create an app in the UI
first
You will want to download and install the Cloud Foundry Command Line tool in order to upload / create your application Follow the documentation here:
http://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/BuildingWeb.jsp#install-cf
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