Introduction to Bluemix given at Florida International University Cloud Hackathon kickoff on March 5th, 2015

1. An Introduction to IBM Bluemix:
A Cloud Foundry based
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
By Carl Osipov
IBM
Bluemix
www.bluemix.n

2. Introduction
 Carl Osipov
 Over 15 years in the IT industry
 Senior Solutions Architect at IBM Cloud
 Background in C/C++/Java/JEE/Node.JS
distributed systems, web apps, analytics
 Email: osipov@us.ibm.com
 Blog: http://cloudswithcarl.com
 Twitter: @CloudsWithCarl
 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kosipov

3. IBM…how you’ve changed!
Exited commoditized businesses
that no longer fit IBM strategy
 DRAM 1999
 Network 1999
 Flat Panel Displays 2001
 Hard Disk Drives 2002
 Personal Computers 2005
 Printers 2007
 Retail Store Solutions 2012
 Customer Care BPO 2013
 x86 Servers 2014
Acquired & created capabilities to
augment & scale cloud portfolio
 $2B spent on Softlayer in 2013
 #1 Preferred Provider of IaaS Cloud
for Enterprises (IDC)
 Visionary rating in Gartner IaaS
Magic Quadrants (2014)
 2015 DeveloperWeek Award went to
IBM Bluemix in Cloud DevOps
 Watson Dev Zone is now on Bluemix
 Over $1B investment to support
IBM Bluemix and hybrid cloud

4.  What is a PaaS?
 NIST definition. Traditional IT models
vs PaaS.
 Cloud Foundry PaaS
 Bluemix Overview
 Bluemix Getting Started Demo
 Introduction to Web Applications on
Bluemix
 Liberty Runtime for Java Web Apps
 Java Web Apps on Bluemix
 PHP Runtime and Web Apps on
Bluemix
 Bluemix Services Catalog
 Web App Dev, Mobile, Watson, and
other services
 Service Instantiation and Service
Binding in Bluemix and Cloud Foundry
 Inspirational Examples for your
Project
 Watson Personality Modeling Celebrity Match
http://your-celebrity-match.mybluemix.net/
 People In The News
http://pitn.mybluemix.net/
 Follow air traffic with a Flight Status and
Tracking app
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/lib
rary/cl-flighttracker-app/index.html
 Remote Control of a Lego
Robothttps://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/201
5/01/19/remote-control-ev3-robot-via-ibm-
bluemix-iot/
 Buying a smartphone with Watson Tradeoff
Analyticshttp://tradeoff-analytics-
demo.mybluemix.net/
 Other Useful Services
 Cloudant Document-oriented NoSQL
Database
 DB2 Relational Database
 Sendgrid Email as a Service
 Twilio Telephony as a Service
Agenda

5. What is a Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
• Capability provided to a Consumer of cloud computing
• Enables the Consumer to deploy applications onto the cloud infrastructure
• using programming languages libraries, services, and tools supported
by the cloud computing Provider.
• Provides Consumer with control over the deployed applications
• Does not require Consumer to manage the underlying cloud
infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or storage
• Optionally provides control over configuration settings for the application
hosting environment

6. More about Service Models
Bluemix is a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
IBM Softlayer
Amazon EC2
Azure Infrastructure
IBM Bluemix
Google App Engine
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

7. Cloud Foundry PaaS powering Bluemix
Developer
Focus
Fastest Growing
PaaS Community
Open Source
Platform
Founding Members:

8. Cloud Foundry Conceptual Architecture
Identity management service for the
platform. Also acts as an OAuth2 provider.
Exposes a REST API to the system. Manages
a database of apps, services, service
instances, etc
End user provided code that is “pushed” to
the cloud and packaged to run in a
container
A collection of code that is responsible for
transforming pushed app artifacts into a
ready to run droplet
A distributed deployment install and
management tool that abstracts the details
of the IaaS layer (Bosh Outer Shell)

9. Cloud Foundry + IBM = Bluemix
Services
Catalog
App Lifecycle
Management
(DevOps)
Application
Runtime
Runtimes &
Buildpacks
Middleware Application Operational Mobile ExternalData
nodejava ruby php
WebSphere
Liberty
Web IDE
(Eclipse Orion)
Eclipse IDE
Application
Composition
Environment
Create & Manage Services
Test/Run Test/Run
Explore
Services
Explore
Services
IBM Bluemix
Check In Code Check In Code
Cloud Foundry on IBM Softlayer
 Bluemix includes
 IBM, open source & 3rd party
services in the catalog
 Requirements mgmt, planning,
defect tracking, build, test, and
deploy
 Git compatible source control
 Runtimes and
buildpacks
 Starter kits for
Mobile, Internet of
Things, Web, and
other types of
apps

10. Mobile App Development Demo
 Twilio is a global, cloud based telephony communications platform
 IBM Bluemix service catalog offers Twilio as an IBM certified 3rd party
service
 Twilio + IBM Bluemix help developers:
 build applications that communicate
 integrate voice, messaging and VOIP with web and mobile
applications using a single API
 eliminate complexity of traditional telephony systems
 quickly design applications for mobile platforms

11. Cloud Foundry Concepts To Remember
 Warden: A packaging / container mechanism used to achieve
application isolation in the Cloud Foundry environment (similar to
Docker, uses LXC)
 Droplet: A Warden container instance containing everything that is
needed in order to successfully run your application, e.g. JVM, Liberty
core libraries, the application itself, short of the operating system.
 Buildpack: A collection of code that is responsible for transforming
pushed application artifacts into a ready to run droplet, in a process
referred to as ‘staging’.
 Services: Code that Bluemix hosts that offers functionality for apps
ranging from utility functions to very complex business logic

12. • Heterogeneous infrastructure
• Multiple scalability models
• High infrastructure resiliency
• Multi-tenancy with virtualization
• Self-service provisioning
• Moderate cost
Cloud Enabled
Existing Middleware Workloads
Compatibility with existing systems
• Standardized infrastructure
• Horizontally scalable
• Built-in application resiliency
• Built-in multi-tenancy
• Elastic provisioning
• Lowest pay per use cost
Cloud Native
Emerging Platform Workloads
Exploitation of new environments
vs
Use Cases for PaaS vs. IaaS

13. Bluemix Apps from IBM Customers
Web Applications Mobile Backends
• Scalable cloud centric web
applications and APIs supporting
mobile workloads
• Leveraged many different language
runtimes (Ruby, PHP, JavaScript,
Java)
• Migration from competitive offerings:
Heroku, Amazon, Rackspace
• Back end services replacing
custom code hosted on IaaS (e.g.
Push Notification)
• Cloud Code for offloading business
logic from the mobile client
• Integrated into iOS and Android
native applications using Bluemix
www.eyeqinsights.com www.themymenu.com

14. Hackathon: How to Get Started
 Play
 Log in and use the catalog to spin up a boilerplate or a runtime
 Check out all of the different IBM, third party, and community services
 Use the "getting started" guide to download the starter code
 Deploy
 Get the Cloud Foundry command line tool
 Make any change to the starter code (and compile if using Java)
 cf push to Bluemix using the Cloud Foundry
 Brainstorm
 Who will be the end user of my app?
 What problem(s) am I trying to solve for the user?
https://github.com/osipov/fiu-2015-hackathon

15. Inspirational Examples for your Project
 Explore the personality of your favorite author
http://authors.mybluemix.net/
 People In The News http://pitn.mybluemix.net/
 Follow air traffic with a Flight Status and Tracking app
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-flighttracker-
app/index.html
 Remote Control of a Lego
Robothttps://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2015/01/19/remote-control-ev3-
robot-via-ibm-bluemix-iot/
 Your Twitter Celebrity Match http://your-celebrity-match.mybluemix.net/
 Buying a smartphone with Watson Tradeoff Analyticshttp://tradeoff-
analytics-demo.mybluemix.net/
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16. Resources: Where to get help
 Documentation:
https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/index.jsp
 developerWorks: http://developer.ibm.com/bluemix
 Developer Q&A Forum:
https://www.ibmdw.net/answers/?community=bluemix
 Sample Apps & Tutorials:
https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/docs/articles/,
https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/docs/sample-code/
 Blog: https://www.ibmdw.net/bluemix/blog/
 Twitter: #Bluemix

17. Why Develop with IBM Bluemix?
 Focus on your code and forget about the infrastructure
 Use the languages, runtimes, and frameworks that you
know
 Get your app to your users quicker and with less effort
 Enhance your app with IBM and partner provided services
 Integrate your on-premise systems with a cloud platform
 Build with the development tools that work best for you

20. Global Footprint

21. “…we were able to
quickly and easily
embed Watson's
capabilities into our
eyeQinsights platform
to provide an even
more personalized
shopping experience”
“we’re able to work with
cognitive computing
capabilities that we
couldn’t dream of
creating ourselves - it’s
a fantastic opportunity
and a real chance to
transform our industry”
“[this] is like putting the
Hubble telescope in the
hands of a backyard
astronomer… Watson’s
cognitive possibilities
alone will spawn a
completely new service
industry…”

22. What are the Properties* of a Cloud Native
App?
Developed in a “hosted-first”
model
Elastic Scalability
Build in Multi-tenancy
Clean Separation of stateful
from stateless components
Modular, Non-monolithic
Architecture, Loosely Cloupled
Rapid continuos development,
build, integration, test, &
Design for failure (Automated
recovery, Granular failure)
May use and combine internet
based services
Accessible via idempotent APIs
Access back to systems of record
(SOA, REST)
Personalization / Ease-of-use / Self-
service
Continuous monitoring, analytics, and
optimization
*not an exhaustive list