IBM Codename: Bluemix - Cloudfoundry, PaaS development and deployment training @IBM Innovation Center Zurich, 7.5.14, Slides by Harald Uebele

© 2014 IBM Corporation
Empowering the IBM ecosystem
200 BlueMix Days – Technical Training
Harald Uebele
IBM Innovation Center, Ehningen
IBM Ecosystem Development
uebele@de.ibm.com

Agenda
1.Lesson 1: BlueMix Overview & Dashboard
2. Lab A: BlueMix – Build and Deploy a Simple Application
3.Lesson 2: BlueMix Architecture
4.Lesson 3: BlueMix DevOps Services Overview
5. Lab B: Node.js with BlueMix DevOps Services and BlueMix
6.Lesson 4: Registering Services in BlueMix
7.Lesson 5: Cloud Foundry
8. Lab C: Build a Twitter Influencer Application in BlueMix
9. Lab D: Build an Application with Mobile Backend as a Service
(MBaaS) in BlueMix
10. Lesson 6: Maximize BlueMix

Before taking this course students should have a familiarity with:
• Cloud computing fundamentals
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) fundamentals
• Knowledge of cloud-based services
• Building web applications (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, etc)
• Source Code Management and Deployment
• IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
• User IDs as requested in invite (BlueMix, BlueMix DevOps)
• and
• An open attitude towards learning
Course prerequisites

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
• Describe basic BlueMix information, such as BlueMix Architecture,
Application Runtimes, and Services
• Articulate Cloud Foundry Architecture
• Understand BlueMix terminology
• Compare BlueMix to international, national, and regional competitors
Having completed the labs, you will have:
• Navigated around the BlueMix environment
• Navigated around the BlueMix DevOps Services environment
• Developed and deployed a BlueMix Application using BlueMix DevOps
Services
• Developed and deployed a mobile application on BlueMix
Overall course objectives
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Introductions
1. Name
2. Company
3. Job role
4. Current experience with cloud
5. Expectations of this course

Lesson 1:
BlueMix Overview
& UI Dashboard

Networking Networking Networking Networking
Storage Storage Storage Storage
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
O/S O/S O/S O/S
Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware
Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime
Data Data Data Data
Applications Applications Applications Applications
Traditional
On-Premises
Infrastructure
as a Service
Platform
as a Service
Software
as a Service
ClientManages
VendorManagesinCloud
ClientManages
ClientManages
Customization; higher costs; slower time to value
Standardization; lower costs; faster time to value
Cloud Service Models
SoftLayer BlueMix
OpenStack CloudFoundry

SoftLayer’s Infrastructure changes the definition of
cloud

SoftLayer IaaS – More than virtual machines

Evolution of BlueMix
Business Problems
• “I am losing talented developers because they don’t have access to
the tools they want to use”
• “It’s not that my developers lack the skills to manage infrastructure, it’s
that I don’t want them to. I need them writing code for the business”
• “I am nervous we are spending time and money integrating things that
should naturally fit together”
• “My average developer has 250 open change requests from the
business. That is a lot of business value we need to deliver”
• “I am not confident that the platform is secure as I integrate into
existing systems”

Developer Problems
• Spending time installing middleware keeps me from coding
• Sifting through pages of docs diminishes desire to use a new
technology.
• Accessing data between different apps often requires writing custom
data layers and routines to share, sync, and manage data.
• Creating API integrations is difficult when working with on-premise data.
• Setting up a productive development for a developer
Evolution of BlueMix (continued)

• Inefficiency and delay in managing the application development
process in disparate, heterogeneous environments
• Limited adaptability in managing disparate infrastructures to handle
multiple application developments across the lifecycle
• Lack of predictability and scaling for the future, when transitioning
from individual development environments to QA and production
Evolution of BlueMix (continued)

BlueMix Value to Developers
• <2 Mins: from idea to
search to coding via
Integrated developer tools.
E.g. Polling app in 2 mins
• Everything you need to
write modern mobile apps
are pre-integrated and
preconfigured
• Self service to start, scale
and make money!
Simplicity &
Speed
• BlueMix Framework and
Services are built based on
Open standard
• Use what you already use:
MongoDB, NodeJS
• Need something more, find
it in Marketplace!
Open &
Flexible
• Best in class security,
support and reliability,
loved by Fortune 500
companies.
• Reuse your existing
business services to
create new composable
apps integrating with what
you already have.
Brand trust
&
integration

• Speed – Time-to-Value
A. Fast—increase velocity of IT service contribution to business from application
development to infrastructure deployment and monitoring
B. Improved—deploy high value-generating applications quickly instead of
spending excessive time in scripting and debugging
• Agility – Operational Efficiency
A. Adaptable—scale environments elastically based on business demand
B. Extensible—embrace and transform legacy environments to a platform
approach
• Predictability – Reduced Risk and Cost
A. Improve application performance and availability
B. De-risk and separate concerns of application development and operations
Why BlueMix?

Why BlueMix? (Cont’d)
• BlueMix is a composable environment built on open standards
• BlueMix is an open, integrated and flexible cloud-centric platform
• BlueMix changes the way developers work - Move quickly, see results fast.
• BlueMix leverages API's and SDK's that can quickly and easily be incorporated with the
latest technology
• BlueMix Supports fit-for-purpose programming models (polyglot) and services.
• BlueMix Embeds manageability of services and applications.
• BlueMix Provides optimized and elastic workloads.
• BlueMix Enable continuous availability.

BlueMix Login

BlueMix UI Dashboard
Main menu

Catalog - Delivering Composable Services for building an
environment
Run Your Apps
The developer can chose any language runtime or
bring their own. Just upload your code and go.
DevOps
Development, monitoring, deployment and
logging tools allow the developer to run the
entire application
APIs and Services
A catalog of open source, IBM and third party
APIs services allow a developer to stitch
together an application in minutes.
Cloud Integration
Build hybrid environments. Connect to
on-premises systems of record plus other public
and private clouds. Expose your own APIs to
your developers.
Extend SaaS Apps
Drop in SaaS App SDKs and extend to new use
cases (e.g,. Mobile, Analytics, Web)

App Runtimes
Runtimes in the BlueMix represent different buildpacks
that are provided. Each runtime is an application with
a starter application code deployed, and a starter
application is a template so that you can use it directly
with the existing buildpack from BlueMix user
interface.

Services
A service is a piece of code that BlueMix hosts. And the service
offers a piece of functionality for applications to use. BlueMix
provides a set of pre-defined services that can you can use
directly

Applications on your dashboard

Organizations, Spaces , Users and Domains
• Organizations
Users
Domains
Spaces
Quota

Organizations
An organization is defined by the following items:
Spaces -
Spaces provide a mechanism to collect related applications, services, and
the users that can collaborate on the resources. An organization can contain
multiple spaces. All application and service creation within BlueMix must be
associated with a space.
Users -
A user must be assigned to an organization to be granted permission to the
spaces within the organization.
Domains -
Domains provide the route on the Internet that is allocated to the
organization. A route has a sub-domain and a domain. A sub-domain is
typically the application name. A domain might be a system domain, or a
custom domain that is the personally registered for your application.

Quota -
Quota represents the resource limits for the organization. Quota defines the
number of services and the amount of memory that can be allocated for use
by the organization. Any application or service in a space of the organization
contributes to the usage of the quota. The quota is assigned when
organizations are created.

Spaces

Users

Domains

Quota

Buildpacks
A buildpack is a collection of scripts responsible for preparing
your code for execution on the target PaaS. A buildpack can
gather the framework and runtime dependencies of an
application, and package them with the application into a
droplet that can be deployed to the cloud.
•
• IBM created buildpacks in BlueMix
• Liberty Built-in
• Node.js Built-in
•

Boilerplates
A boilerplate has an associated runtime and services, and is the
container of one application with multiple services.

Boilerplates (cont’d)

Monitoring and Logs

Lab Intruduction – Tools used
BlueMixBlueMix DevOps Services BlueMix
$> git $> cf
clone,
push
clone,
push
deploy
deploy
deploy
Eclipse

Setup of Lab Image (based on Win 7 64bit)
1. Oracle SUN JDK 7
2. Eclipse Kepler for J2EE
3. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/keplersr2
4. Add CloudFoundry Plug-In to Eclipse
5. http://docs.gopivotal.com/pivotalcf/devguide/deploy-apps/sts.html
6. Android Developer Tools (Download for other platforms, SDK Tools only)
7. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
8. ADT Eclipse Plugin
9. http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html
10. CloudFoundry CL
11. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli/releases
12. git
13. http://git-scm.com/downloads

NEW: BlueMix for Eclipse Kepler Plugin (Beta)
l
Extend your existing Eclipse or Rational WDT development environment
l
Expose some of the unique features of the Liberty buildpack
l
Deploy a Liberty packaged server
l
Support for deploying node.js applications
l
Target your JavaScript project
l
Deploy and run your server side JavaScript application in the Cloud
l
Plug-In for Eclipse (Kepler)
l
Instructions: https://ibm.biz/BdRJ3X

LAB A – Build an App using
BlueMix

Lesson 2:BlueMix
Architecture

What is Blue Mix?
1.BlueMix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture,
leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build,
deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a
growing ecosystem of available services and runtime
frameworks.
2.IBM will provide services and runtimes into the ecosystem based
on our extensive software portfolio.
3.For developers, this meant that we wanted a system that would
significantly reduce the time needed to create the application, to
provision it, allow for flexible capacity in terms of storage, but also
bandwidth and processing power, and which would handle the
back-end infrastructure needs without requiring the developer to
spend their valuable time doing so.
BlueMix Architecture

BlueMix Architecture – High Level

BlueMix Architecture – How it works

BlueMix Architecture – How it works (Cont’d)

Lesson 3:
DevOps Services
for BlueMix

What is DevOps Services for BlueMix?
DevOps Services for BlueMix is an end-to-end solution in
the cloud providing an open, integrated rapid development
experience that scales.

IBM BlueMix DevOps Services
An Open, Integrated Rapid Development Experience that Scales
1. A Premier DevOps Service for IBM Cloud
Platform
A. Promotes incremental frictionless adoption of
DevOps Services for BlueMix
2. An Integrated Developer Experience
A. End-to-end DevOps Solution in the cloud for
developing applications.
B. Integrated task tracking, agile planning, source
control with auto deploy
C. Complementary mobile quality and application
performance monitoring
D. Use your favorite tools or work from the Web
IDE
E. Free public and fee-based private projects (free
for now during Beta)
3. Scalable, secure, enterprise-ready
A. Runs on SoftLayer Infrastructure

DevOps Services available today

Get productive with BlueMix DevOps Services in minutes
1.Register at www.jazzhub.com
2.Answer a few questions
A.Which SCM (Git, GitHub, Jazz
SCM)?
B.Do you want your project to be
public or private?
C.Do you want to practice agile
software development?
D.Do you want to deploy on IBM
BlueMix?
3.Start coding

Collaborate seamlessly on public or private projects
1.Easily invite team members
2.Access from anywhere
3.Built for collaboration from the ground up
4.Choose who sees your project, and how you engage with broader
communities

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Agile development in the Cloud is easy with BlueMix DevOps
Services for BlueMix
1. Built-in agile process support
2. Work items to track and plan project activities
3. Agile tools for the product backlog, releases, and sprints.
4. Dashboard charts for project status

Choose how you code with BlueMix DevOps Services
1.Browser-based Integrated
Development Environment
2.Full support for local development
with Eclipse or Visual Studio
3.Built-in support for Jazz Source
Control
4.Hosted Git repository
5.Got GitHub? No problem

Leverage the power of social coding. With public projects, it’s easy to learn
and share work with a broader audience.

LAB B – Node.js with DevOps
Services and BlueMix

Lesson 4:
Register a Service
in BlueMix

WORK IN PROGRESS…
Why Register a Services?
1.BlueMix offers pay-as-you-go cloud services for cloud
platform services.
2.BlueMix helps service providers go to market more
quickly, efficiently, and effectively.
3.BlueMix assists service providers by providing cloud
monetization strategies and actionable business and
technology planning
Lesson 4 - Registering Services in BlueMix

1.To register a service with BlueMix, you must define service metadata, create
service image assets, and issue the command line utility cloud-cli.
2.Two types of service can be registered with BlueMix, a regular Bluemix
service that exists within Bluemix, and a 'User Provided' service that is
provisioned outside of Bluemix.
Service Metadata
There are two parts to the metadata defined for a service: metadata that is used
to define the BlueMix service, and metadata specific to the UI.
•. BlueMix service metadata
• BlueMix Service metadata is defined in a JSON file.
•. BlueMix user interface service metadata
• The UI specific metadata is specified under the 'metadata' attribute. This
metadata affects the display of the service in the BlueMix user interface
Registering Services in BlueMix

BlueMix User Provided Service Instance - Service metadata
The following example shows the BlueMix metadata for the Sample service. In this example, the
Sample service is classified as being of service type "sample", and it is categorized under a
hierarchy of "Sample" → "Foundation Services" → "Services“
For 'User Provided' services, there can be only one plan. The 'url' value must be a valid URL,
but it is never referenced, so it can be anything. The 'token' and 'timeout' values are not used.

BlueMix User Provided Service Instance - User Interface service
metadata

Lesson 5:
Cloud Foundry

This lesson provides an overview of PaaS, Open PaaS, & Cloud Foundry
Topics in this lesson include:
• What is Cloud Foundry?
• Cloud Foundry Architecture and
• Application Staging
• Cloud Foundry CLI
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Lesson 5 – Cloud Foundry

An open platform-as-a-service (PaaS). The system supports multiple
frameworks, multiple application infrastructure services and deployment to
multiple clouds.
What’s Cloud Foundry?

Languages/Frameworks/Service
 Multi-Language
Ruby, Java, Scala, Node.js, Erlang, Python, PHP, ...
 Multi-Framework
Rails, Sinatra, Spring, Grails, Express, Lift, ...
 Multi-Services
MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, ...
 Multi-Cloud, Multi-IaaS
Public Cloud, MicroCloud, Private Cloud

Cloud Foundry Architecture – CF Kernel Internal

Cloud Foundry - Application Staging

Cloud Foundry - Services
*
*) catalog = cf marketplace
provision = cf create-service
bind = cf bind-service etc.

CF Flow
Health Manager
Service "A"
Provisioning Agent
Droplet Execution
Agent (DEA)
Cloud Controller
Cloud Controller
Router
Router
Service
"A"
Cloud
Controller
Database
Routes droplet
requests
Routes REST API
requests
Persists droplets
and provisioned
services
Periodically scans
for consistency
Droplet change
notiﬁcations
Droplet
start/stop
requests
Orchestrates
(Start, Stop, Find)
Registers and
unregisters
Registers and
unregisters
Sends droplet
heart beats and
exit messages
Provision and
unprovision
Advertise
Service
Provision
and
unprovision
Guest applications
consume

BlueMix - Cloud Foundry CLI (Command Line Interface)
• cf is Cloud Foundry's
command line interface.
• Used to deploy and
manage applications
running on most Cloud
Foundry based
environments
• cf go binary for your OS in
github
Important CF CLI Calls
• cf –a api-end-point
• cf login user-id
• cf push my-new-app
• cf create-service
my-service
• cf bind-service my-service
my-new-app

Is BlueMix = Cloud Foundry?
BlueMix is based on the Cloud Foundry open source PaaS, it is more
than just a hosted Cloud Foundry offering.
IBM is embracing the open source and extending it with additional
capabilities such as GUI and services that represent the breadth of the
IBM portfolio.

LAB C – Build a Twitter influencer application
using BlueMix
OR
LAB D – Mobile Backend as a Service
(MBaaS) using BlueMix

Lesson 6:
Maximize BlueMix

BlueMix Services Scope
 Data management
– MongoDB (CF*)
– MySQL (CF*)
– SQL (IBM DB2)
– Data API (IBM NoSQL with SDK)
– PostgreSQL (CF*)
– NoSQL (IBM NoSQL)
– Object Store (IBM/SL)
– Data Snapshot, Backup, Recovery (IBM)
– Cloudant*
 Application Services
– Rabbit MQ (CF*)
– Log Analytics (IBM 20/20)
– Application Performance (IBM Application
Performance Management)
– Messaging (IBM Elastic Messaging)
– Source Control Repo (Git & JazzHub)
– Integration Service (IBM Cast Iron)
– Workflow Service (IBM BPM)
– Rules Service (IBM Decision Mgmt)
– SendGrid*
– Flow*
 Web
– Java (IBM Liberty)
– Ruby (CF*)
– PHP (CF*, Zend PHP*)
– JavaScript (JS*, Node.js)
– Tomcat (CF*)
– Redis (CF*)
– Caching (IBM eXtreme Scale)
 Mobile
– Data API (IBM NoSQL with SDK)
– Push Notification (IBM)
– Cloud Scripts (IBM)
– Mobile Application Management (IBM)
– Mobile Data Sync (IBM)
– Mobile Quality Management (IBM)
Dec Beta 1
Feb Beta 2
June GA+
* = 3rd party

BlueMix Future Content
 Marketing
– Commerce (EZCommerce)
– Digital Marketing & Analytics (Tealeaf,
Coremetrics, Xtify, Unica)
 Security
– Secure Transactions (Trusteer)
– Access (IBM Access Management)
– AppScan (IBM AppScan)
 Watson
– Watson Q&A
 Social
– Workforce Management (Kenexa)
– Social Analytics, Integration, & Content
 Dev & Test
– Agile Project Management (JazzHub)
– Team Collaboration (JazzHub)
– Continuous Delivery (UrbanCode)
– Quality/Testing
 Big Data & Analytics
– Hadoop*
– BigInsights
– Streams
– Reporting & Charting (Cognos)
– Predictive Analytics (SPSS)
 M2M
– MessageSight
– Internet of Things
 Media
– Object Store (SoftLayer)
– Media Transcoding
– Content Delivery Network (SoftLayer)
 Smart Infrastructure
– Asset Management (IBM Maximo)
* = 3rd party

Differentiators
Differentiate BlueMix from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure,
Heroku, Openshift?
1.BlueMix has the whole package: scalability, performance, and wide range of
services, including 37 services
2.Open platform with IBM services and third party services built on top of
open source
3.Proven IBM on premise solutions available as service
4.IBM unique services: such as Decision Services (business rules), and
Watson (future)
5.IBM leading services: such as DevOps, Monitoring and Analytics
6.High performance and scalability with SoftLayer
7.Full support and consultation

BlueMix developerWorks Community -
https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/
Need Help? Use the BlueMix developerWorks Forum -
https://www.ibmdw.net/answers/?community=bluemix
BlueMix Events - https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/events/
BlueMix DevOps Services – https://www.jazzhub.com
BlueMix Support

Lesson 7:
Security

In this topic, you will learn about SoftLayer’s
industry and regulatory compliance.
Complying with industry and regulatory standards
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• Service Organization Control (SOC) 2
 SoftLayer have an unqualified SOC 2 Type II
report for all data centers.
 Audits security, availability, process integrity,
privacy and confidentiality.
 Report available to customers and their
auditors via NDA.
• Safe Harbor
 Certification demonstrates that SoftLayer
provides adequate privacy protection as
defined by the Directive.
Industry and regulatory compliance
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• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
(PCI-DSS)
 SoftLayer is a PCI Level 3 compliant merchant for its
handling of PCI regulated data.
 This certification is not transferable to customer
workloads.
• Federal Information Security Management Act
(FISMA)
 SoftLayer is working towards FISMA compliance in
select data centers.
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA)
Industry and regulatory compliance (cont.)
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• Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
 SoftLayer have published a self-assessment in the
CSA Security, Trust and Assurance Registry (STAR).
• SoftLayer expects to be eligible for
CSA-STAR Certification and Attestation since
they have an existing SOC 2 Type II
assessment from a third party.
• CSA-STAR Continuous certificate is still
under development by CSA.
Industry and regulatory compliance (cont.)
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• 99.995% availability
• Annual downtime .04 hours
• Two independent utility path
• Fully redundant (2N+1)
• Sustain 96-hour power outage
• Annual downtime 1.6 hours
• Annual downtime 22.0
• hours
• Annual downtime 28.8
• hours
One path of power and
• cooling
• Some redundancy in
• power
Single path power
• and cooling
• No redundant
• components
• Multi power and cooling paths
• Fault tolerant (N+1)
• Sustain 72-hour power outage
SoftLayer data centers are Tier 3 data centers.
Securing the data centers
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Tier
4
Tier 3
Tier 2
Tier 1

Data center and server room security
• Data centers located only in facilities with controlled access and 24- hour security.
• No server room doors are public-facing.
• Server rooms are staffed 24 x 7.
• Unmarked entry and exit doors into server rooms.
• Digital security video surveillance is used in the data center and server rooms
• Biometric security systems are used throughout the data center.
• Server room access strictly limited to SoftLayer employees and escorted contractors or
visitors.
• Barcode-only identification on hardware;
• no customer markings of any type on the
• servers themselves.
Securing the data centers (cont.)
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Operational security
l Engineers and technicians trained on internal industry standard policies and
procedures, and audited yearly.
l Geographic redundancy for all core systems for disaster recovery and business
continuity.
l Two-factor authentication for Customer Portal access adds greater server security.
l All data removed from re-provisioned machines with drive wipe software approved by
the US Department of Defense.
l Ongoing PCI DSS compliance for SoftLayer’s own handling of credit card information.
l Current SSAE 16 SOC1 report, with no exceptions
l noted.
Securing the data centers (cont.)
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Questions?

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