Achieving Developer Nirvana With Codename: BlueMix

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Achieving Developer Nirvana With
Codename: BlueMix
By: Ryan Baxter
@ryanjbaxter
http://ryanjbaxter.com

Not The Band
1

Definition
nirvana
/nərˈvänə,nir-/
In the Buddhist tradition, nirvana is described as the
extinguishing of the fires tha...

Does This Sound Like Dev Nirvana?
 Install runtime, container, and all libraries
 Install needed services (databases, mo...

What Is BlueMix?
 A platform for running virtually any application in the cloud
without having to worry about the hardwar...

How Everything Fits Together
 A PaaS is software that is
usually running on top of an
IaaS and abstracts the
complexities...

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...

Benefits Of Using BlueMix
 Save time by just worrying about the code and not the
infrastructure
 Quickly get your app in...

BlueMix Open Beta
 BlueMix is currently in open
beta, you need to register to get
going
 During the beta you get 8GB of
...

Lets Deploy An App!
App to enable anyone to ask questions for a session…but
we can make it even easier.
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Cloud Foundry And BlueMix
 BlueMix is built upon an open
source project called Cloud Foundry
 IBM contributes to the pro...

Runtimes And Buildpacks
 One of the benefits of BlueMix is that it supports virtually
any runtime you may want to use
 T...

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 servi...

The Cloud Foundry Command Line (CLI)
 The command line will most likely be your tool of choice
when doing anything with B...

Pushing An Application
 You can push an application
using the cf push command
 What you push depends on the
runtime you ...

Manifest Files
 cf push commands can become very verbose
 cf push appName –p myapp.war –b
https://github.com/ryanjbaxter...

Sample Manifest File
 Command Line
cf push appName –p myapp.war –b
https://github.com/ryanjbaxter/mybuildpack -i 5 –m
512...

Logging
 Logging is the first step in figuring out what is wrong
 You application’s logs will be written to stderr.log a...

Scaling
 BlueMix allows you to scale
your application horizontally
and vertically within minutes
 If the load on your ap...

Dev Ops Services
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• DevOps Solution in the cloud for building
mobile and cloud applications
• Optimized for use with Blu...

Resources
 Documentation:
https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/index.jsp
 developerWorks: http://developer.ibm.com/bluemix
 ...

Resources From Today
 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/RyanBaxter/dev-
nirvanabluemix
 Code: https://github.com/Codenam...

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

Backup

Creating Apps In The BlueMix UI
 You can create an
application in the
BlueMix UI by going to
the catalog and
choosing a b...

Using The Dashboard
 You will be brought to
the dashboard which
will now have a tile for
your app
 Click the tile to see...

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...

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