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

Then 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

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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

Softlayer – Global Data Centers

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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

After you have registered, you can begin deploying apps using any number of tools

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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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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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Thank you.Join the beta at: www.bluemix.net