I wrote an article on: http://expertintegratedsystemsblog.com
Please read this to setup your development environment: How to setup your SCAS/IWD/PureApp plugin development environment?
IBM PureApplication can provide you out of the box a number of pattern-types; you can also upload new pattern-types at IBM PureSystems Center but what about if you want to create your own pattern-type that describe your own application environment!
After black Friday where American citizens can buy at low price goods in most of the shops comes the Cyber Monday. On that day eShops make incredible discount on their products via the web which attract a lot of cyber customers. This has for consequence a short and huge increase of the load of all servers owned by these companies. This sudden load increase is also called peak load. Continue reading
The provided Java API has a number of interfaces, one of them is the PostProvisioner on which I already wrote a blog (Pattern-type (Part 11): Add a post processor to a deployment) another one is the ServiceProvisioner. With this interface you can insert parameter value in the vm topology. Continue reading
Through this blog, I would like to explain the extra benefits you can get from IBM SmartCloud Application Workload Service (SCAWS) versus creating your own scripts with the provided IBM SmartCloud Enterprise API to deploy a topology on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. Continue Reading ->
Imagine, you would like to take any actions once the deployment of a pattern is completed. This is possible because the solution offer a PostProvisioner interface that you can register and make it run after the deployment. Continue reading
Using the IBM Workload Deployer plugin provided with RAD, you can deploy a web application virtual application pattern directly from the RAD environment. Here I will explain the steps to install this plugin. Continue reading
I was wondering how I can add a storage to a virtual machine generated from a pattern-type developed on SmartCloud Application Workload Service and, in fact, it is very simple and easy. Continue reading
Build and deploy Java virtual applications in minutes
Summary: The IBM Application Pattern for Java lets you easily move any existing Java application into a cloud-based environment and make it reusable as either a platform or a modifiable template. Find out how this pattern works with IBM’s cloud offerings, and get started with step-by-step instructions — including two video demos — for creating, deploying, and monitoring Java virtual applications in a variety of usage scenarios. Continue reading ->
This a serie of articles explaining step-by-step how to create a pattern-type for IBM PureSystems, IBM Workload Deployer and IBM SmartCloud Application Services. Continue reading
When you provision the SmartCloud Application Workload Services, you have the option to store all data on an existing volume. For doing that, you just need to create a volume in the same data-center first and an IP address then enter the storage ID and the IP address while provisioning the SmartCloud Application Workload Services. Continue reading