Deploying pimentaCHAT on IBM Bluemix
IBM Bluemix includes three separate cloud platforms
- CloudFoundry Runtimes
- IBM Containers - based on Docker (in beta)
- Virtual Machines (in beta)
pimentaCHAT can be easily deployed onto any of these cloud platforms.
The deployment literally takes 5 minutes. And Bluemix is well integrated with most legacy services and backend technologies that you may find in an enterprise environment. Bluemix is robust and can scale globally over IBM/Softlayer’s huge network of resources.
CloudFoundry is a very mature platform, it is the only Bluemix platform for production right now (Container and VM are in beta). The instructions below deploy pimentaCHAT to this platform.
Prerequisite
- a Bluemix account - free trial account will do
- the CloudFoundry command line client (cf) installed (version 6.10 or higher)
- git
Deploying pimentaCHAT
First, logon to the Bluemix dashboard and then:
*CREATE AN APP -> WEB -> .js (SDK for Node.js)
Then give your name a unique app name. After deployment, pimentaCHAT will be available over the Internet as:
https://<your app name>.mybluemix.net/
Leave the skeleton app to stage and start, logout of the dashboard. All remaining steps will be preformed at the command line.
Git clone the latest pimentaCHAT:
git clone https://bitbucket.org/pimenta-group/pimenta.chat.git
Change directory into pimentaCHAT, create a new .cfignore file with only one line in it:
local
This will minimize size of the push (by excluding local pimentaCHAT build artifacts).
Login to Bluemix via the CLI:
cf login
Create a mongolab ‘free’ sandbox instance - to be used by pimentaCHAT:
cf create-service mongolab sandbox <your db name>
Bind that service to your app:
cf bind-service <your app name> <your db name>
All that is left to do now is to push pimentaCHATt to the app you created early in the dashboard using meteor-buildpack-horse:
cf push <your app name> -m 512M -b https://bitbucket.com/pimentachat/meteor-buildpack-horse.git
That’s it. Everybody on the Internet can now access your instance of pimentaCHAT at https://<your app name>.mybluemix.net/.
