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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

Chapter 8. Security Services on Bluemix

In this chapter, we will look at what security services are available on Bluemix and how we can use them to secure our application on Bluemix. Securing your web applications and your cloud environment is a very important aspect of developing applications on cloud. In this chapter, you will learn about the security services provided on Bluemix and how you can configure one of the security services to provide an authentication service to your web application.

Note

Discussions in this chapter will be based upon the capabilities that are available on Bluemix at the time of writing this book.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • Overview of security services in Bluemix

  • Access Trail security service

    • Creating the Access Trail service instance

    • Working with the Access Trail service

  • Single Sign On security service

    • Creating the Single Sign On service instance

    • Configuring the identity sources in Single Sign On

    • Configuring the Cloud Directory

    • Configuring...