I lead a web/mobile project and I still need to know the tools we will be using for development.
We have a 6 months access to IBM Bluemix, and its security check tools, CloudFoundry, and others may appear really useful.
However, we don't want to rely on a solution that would trap our project without any possibility of migration if needed.
I looked up on the internet how to export a project from Bluemix as a docker, with elements created from IBM. I didn't find anything relevant (I might be bad at googling, but all I can find is "how to export to Bluemix/how to work locally").
Does Bluemix allow to export the entire project onto another hoster, does it depend on the services we used in the project ?
Thank you in advance.
If you package your application in a container you can run it on any provider that supports Docker. That could be another cloud, in a local datacenter or on your own laptop.
If you are planning to use Bluemix services as part of that application then you will have two options if moving your application off Bluemix.
Keep using the services in Bluemix but connect to them remotely from wherever you're now hosting your appliaction. This will require internet connectivity and you'll have to hard code the service credentials in to your application (not good practice).
Migrate the services as well as the application. This will only be possible for the non-unique services IBM offer e.g. Redis, Mongo, Elasticsearch etc.. You'll need to refactor your application to accept the new provider of these services.
If your service/app is dockerized, and is being hosted as a container on Bluemix.
You can pull the container image of your service/app in your own docker enabled cloud or local environment. Following steps can be followed for the same:
install bluemix-container cli package https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/containers/container_cli_ov.html
do cf ic login using your bluemix credentials
check for your images using cf ic images command
pull the image in your environment using docker pull <image-registry-url>
run the container with required parameters using docker run
Hope it helps. Thanks.
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I have a zeppelin application running on my local host.I want to deploy it to server. As I am a beginner I don't know the procedure to deploy. If any one have deployed zeppelin to server can you please describe the procedure for it ?
I have checked online source and official tutorial but I am not able to get the steps for its deployment.
What do you mean by application? Are you just talking about a notebook you created? If so you can simply export the notebook (from the menu in the notebook itself) and import it into the server instance (using import notebook from the splash screen) if it is a vanilla instance.
You will have to make sure the correct interpreter is available and set.
Unless there is something special about the local instance you have deployed, it would be easiest to just deploy it separately to the server using something like Docker.
https://zeppelin.apache.org/docs/0.7.3/install/docker.html
Perhaps you can clarify what it is you are trying to do.
I just when trough this tutorial about Using
Firebase and App Engine Standard Environment in an Android App
It was grate but I wonder now can anyone upload and replace my servlet code. Like do I need to set up some firewall somewhere. I read the docs
about
Using Networks and Firewalls
but I cannot see any hands-on how to apply this, it´s really advanced and if someone could break it down, what I need to do to only allow me to access the code.
I´m a bit new to this but when working with this tutorial
Build an Android App Using Firebase and the App Engine Flexible
Environment
I got this email from CloudPlatform-noreply saying I must maintain a Firewalls :
Dear Developer, We noticed that your Google Cloud Project has open
project firewalls. This could make your instance vulnerable to
compromises since anyone on the internet can access and establish a
connection to the instance. The following project has open firewalls:
Playchat (ID: playchat-4cc1d) Google Cloud Platform provides the
flexibility for you to configure your project to your specific needs.
We recommend updating your settings to only allow access to the ports
that your project requires. You can review your project's settings by
inspecting the output of gcloud compute firewall-rules or by visiting
the firewall settings page on the GCP Console. Learn more about using
firewalls and secure connections to VM instances.
What do I need to be afraid of here - what does "since anyone on the internet can access and establish a connection to the instance." really mean?
I want my Firebase signed in users to be able to access only
Source code deployment
The only people that can deploy source code to your app are ones that you've given access to in the IAM permissions pages in the Cloud Platform Console. People there need Owner or have the specific role of "App Engine Admin" or "App Engine Deployer".
Connecting to your instances
If you are using the App Engine standard environment there are no virtual machine instances. The standard environment is purely a platform as a service, not your typical hosting environment with servers.
If you are using the App Engine flexible environment, your code does run on virtual machine instances. However, those instances by default are locked down. You can enable SSH for debugging purposes. These connections however use the tokens via your authorized gcloud installation to connect. All this is just to say, that by default your instances are locked down and even in the debug mode they are still pretty secure.
Overall, your code is secure by default. Protecting your resources is actually probably more about protecting your Gmail account and thus its connected resources like your Cloud Platform projects. Protect your account with two-factor authentication, don't give people more access to your project than they require, and lastly don't enable debugging unless you need it and even then close it down when you're done.
I have a website that is currently running under GAE... unfortunately, I, nor anyone on the team, does not have access the local environment that it was created from.... Is it possible to create a local environment or at least get a copy of the application files and database from an existing GAE installation?
What you need is the application source code, not the "local environment".
Ideally this source code would be on a version control system (ie GIT,SVN), Google cloud platform provides free GIT repositories for your projects so you might try looking there first. There's also a tool for both Java and python that allow you to download the source of a deployed version, provided you are authenticated as either the dev who uploaded it or a project owner. EDIT: as stated by Dan Cornilescu this feature can be disabled.
As for the database info there's plenty of tools available to "export" your GAE datastore info, just consider for your project that it might be easier to do the queries manually than actually implementing this tools.
Thanks for help... But unfortunately, this code is not in GIT. Furthermore,
being new to Google hosting, I wasn't clear on my setup... My web instance is actually running within Compute Engine not Application Engine. Be that as it may, with some additional search, I was first able to find out how to browse my filesystem by accessing the VM Instances menu option under the Compute Engine section of the Google Cloud Platform interface. On the VM Instances page, it will show your instance and an option to the left side of the instance to connect with a drop down box that will allow you to open a browser window that shows the instance's file system. In addition to this, I found this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssfE6ODpak that shows how to configure Filezila FTP client to access your server instance - very helpful. From there, I was able to download all of my site files from the var/www directory. Now, onto extracting my data... Thanks again!
I started a new Yeoman angular-fullstack project (client-angular.js, server-node.js)
(generator: https://github.com/DaftMonk/generator-angular-fullstack)
I have 2 seperated directories for client and server,
I want to launch the app but the deployment don't show any index.html file,
The question is, Should I make 2 different hosts for the server and the client?
if no, how can I host and use the united projects?
No, it is not needed to create 2 different hosts for the server.
The server needs to point to app.js, usually located at server/app.js, as this is the entry point (instead of index.html) of your app. How this is done depends solely on the server you intend on using.
If you consider using IIS you can take a look at: Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows
As for the other deployment options, as laggingreflex said, "Heroku is the popular choice to host node.js projects". The angular-fullstack git site has more information on deploying to Heroku or Openshift.
As a side note:
Deploying to IIS requires a bit more attention than the information in the link specified. You need to set file access, create a web.config file as well as a few other stuff. At least, I had to...
You'll need a host that supports MongoDB assuming you kept the Database the same after generating your application. Heroku is a great option as it allows you to setup up plugins like mongolab or mongohq fairly easily. I would also recommend looking into Digital Ocean as they allow you to set up a droplet/server that has what you need for the application to run.
If you go with Digital Ocean and are a student check out https://education.github.com/pack. You'll actually receive $100 credit towards a new Digital Ocean account which will let you test things out.
Good luck!
The application(JSF+hibernate) is been deployed using the vmc commands as on the cloudfoundry site. able to see the welcome page. postgreSQl service is binded with the application but the application is not able to connect with the database.
And also viewed about the VCAP_SERVICES using java but dont know much about it rather how to create it.
Cloud Foundry uses auto-reconfiguration if you have one service (either MySQL or Postgres) bind to your application. That means you don't need to touch your code at all!
Please review the following article on our docs site:
http://docs.cloudfoundry.com/frameworks/java/spring/spring.html#using-cloud-foundry-services-in-spring-applications
If you still have issues, go ahead and upload a war file of your app and we can take a look.