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Learning IBM Bluemix

By : Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan
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Learning IBM Bluemix

By: Sreelatha Sankaranarayanan

Overview of this book

IBM Bluemix is an open standard platform for building, running, and managing applications on the cloud. With Bluemix, developers can build innovative applications using various compute options and value added services , developers can also manage the application lifecycle using the platform provided DevOps services. Learning IBM Bluemix will take you on a journey from the basics of IBM Bluemix to working with the platform to developing and deploying of modern applications. The sample application use cases employed in the book will introduce you to the transformative nexus of cloud, mobile, and security, all enabled through capabilities provided out-of-the-box by IBM Bluemix. By the end of the book, you will have understood the benefits and use cases for IBM Bluemix, and will possess the skills to further explore the platform and thus develop, deploy, and secure your own innovative, new-age applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning IBM Bluemix
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Building and Deploying Your First Application on IBM Bluemix

Manually scaling your application


In the application's Overview page, you will see the number of instances and the memory allocated to each instance where your application runs:

Let us now learn how to manually scale the application on Bluemix. The following are the steps to scale your application manually:

  1. Click the + icon next to the instances to increase the number of instances where your application runs:

  2. Click Save, to save the configuration:

Using manual scaling, you can increase the resources attached to your application by increasing the number of instances in which your application runs. Bluemix internally scales out or horizontally scales your application when the number of instances is increased. Bluemix has an internal load balancer, which handles the routing of requests to your application across the instances. You can also choose to scale your application by increasing the memory each instance will have. This is how you can scale your applications manually, in Bluemix.

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