Launching a VMR in IBM Bluemix
IBM Bluemix has a great cloud platform based on open-standards that they are building to give developers “flexible compute options, choice of DevOps tooling, and a powerful set of IBM and third-party APIs and services”. If you’re not already familiar with it, check it out. It offers developers three distinct platforms for deploying their applications: true platform as a service through Cloud Foundry, portable containers through Docker and Virtual Machines on OpenStack (currently in BETA).
With the recently announced OpenStack Solace VMR support, it seems like a perfect fit – run your Solace VMRs in the Bluemix Virtual Machines environment, your Apps in CloudFoundry and then you can really take advantage of all the benefits of Bluemix public cloud and Bluemix local. More on that in a future post though. For now I want to show you how I got the Solace VMR running in Bluemix.
Resources
Along the way, I leveraged two guides to get the VMR up and running:
As required I’ll reference both of those guides to help you understand the steps and how to go further with your personal configuration as required.… Read the rest