The IWD technology is used in different IBM products such as IBM SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) and IBM PureApplication (part of the PureSystems product line).
This technology uses patterns to deploy application and the underlying infrastructure. Pattern-types defines the rules to design patterns. SCAS out of the box provides pattern-types such as the “Web Application” or the “Java” pattern-types. Developers wrote the plugins which define the pattern-types.
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The general availability of IBM’s platform as a service (PaaS), IBM SmartCloud Application Services has just been announced! IBM SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) provides end-to-end services for applications ranging from development to production. continue reading ->
I read this article on developerWorks: Deploying into the cloud with the IBM Application Pattern for Java which I found very interesting. It explains how to deploy a Java application in SCAS. The author demonstrates how to setup a Tomcat environment and how to install its application on it.
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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
In this blog, I will explain how you can quickly start with DevOps on IBM SmartCloud Application Services.
The IBM SmartCloud Application Services contains all software you need to run DevOps.
You have access to the ‘Collaborative LifeCycle Management Services’ (CLMS) which will provide the Rational suite (RTC/RRC/RQM). You can also enable the ‘Workload Service’ (WS) which will allows you to quickly deploy a pattern on the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform and to connect the dots, you can use the Rational Application Developer (RAD) image available in the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise public catalog. Continue reading
The DevOps methodology consists of a number of use-cases to manage application development. DevOps covers three areas: development, quality insurance and technology operation. All three are offered within IBM SmartCloud Application Services, IBM’s platform as a service (PaaS) offering. Adopting a DevOps methodology will provide a reduced change scope, will increase release coordination, and speed automation. 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