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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

Scaling your application using the Auto-Scaling service in Bluemix


In the previous section, we learned how to scale our application manually. In this section, we will learn about scaling applications automatically by using the Auto-Scaling service in Bluemix.

Creating the Auto-Scaling service instance

The following are the steps to create the Auto-Scaling instance:

  1. From the Bluemix catalog, select Auto-Scaling from the DevOps category of services, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Click the Auto-Scaling service, review the service details, and click Create:

  3. The Auto-Scaling service is created. Since we have not yet bound the application to this service, you will see the message shown in the following screenshot:

Binding the Auto-Scaling service instance to your application

Let us now bind the Auto-Scaling service to the application that we want to scale automatically using the Auto-Scaling service:

  1. Go to the application details page and click Connections:

  2. Click Connect Existing. The services...