Bluemix

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IBM Bluemix is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) developed by IBM . Via Bluemix, developers access more than 130 cloud services to develop mobile apps and web applications. The numerous analysis tools are supplemented by services from third-party providers. With Watson Analytics, for example, intelligent systems can be implemented that cognitively evaluate data and process it for decision-making.

history

Bluemix was first opened in beta in February 2014 and released in July 2014. One of the goals was above all to create an environment with which mobile and cloud applications can be put together quickly from building blocks, individualized with code snippets, automated testing and installation and operation from the cloud at the push of a button.

In May 2015, Bluemix already provided over 100 cloud-based development tools from IBM and partners, and IBM recorded an increase in users of around 8,000 new users per week.

In October 2015, IBM announced that it wanted to offer the Bluemix services as a hybrid offer, i.e. in the local data center, and that they wanted to offer new development tools for Node.js. Two months later, in November 2015, IBM added object storage, which allowed developers to store unstructured data. The open source platform OpenStack is used here.

In mid-February 2016 it was announced that another component was to be added to IBM Bluemix, which should enable developers to establish the blockchain for corporate use. In order to be able to provide the developers with technical support, they opened garages in London, New York, Singapore and Tokyo where experts can give developers technical advice. At the InterConnect conference in February 2016, IBM presented Bluemix OpenWhisk, a competitor to AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions. OpenWisky, which is currently in beta, is a service that is primarily intended for the development of microservices . In contrast to its competitors, however, the OpenWisky source code is open source. In July, IBM published the NPM module openwhisk and the Node-RED tool . The former is a wrapper for the OpenWhisk REST API, the latter is a modular tool for prototyping for event-driven applications.

In December 2016, IBM introduced a continuous delivery toolchain that should make it easier for development teams to create microservices, containers and cloud applications. Tools such as GitHub, Slack, Sauce Labs and PagerDuty can be integrated. IBM also released OpenWisky from beta.

In October 2017, Bluemix was renamed IBM Cloud .

background

Bluemix supports multiple programming languages ​​and frameworks including Java , Node.js , Go , PHP , Python , Ruby Sinatra , Ruby on Rails and can also support other languages ​​like Scala through the use of build packs. It also supports multiple services as well as integrated DevOps services to build, run, deploy and manage cloud applications. The developer platform is based on the open technology of Cloud Foundry and runs on IBM's soft layer cloud infrastructure. The virtual infrastructure environment of the Softlayer platform is based on the Xen hypervisor from Citrix.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IBM relies on Cloud Foundry for "Platform as a Service". February 26, 2014, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Platform as a Service: IBM publishes BlueMix. July 3, 2014, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ IBM Bluemix finds converts from Amazon, Azure in India. May 16, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Platform as a Service: IBM's Bluemix becomes hybrid. October 2, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  5. ↑ IBM Bluemix: Node.js debugging in the cloud. October 9, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Cloud storage: IBM expands Bluemix to include object storage. December 8, 2015, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ IBM wants to offer developers Blockchain as a Service. February 17, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Bluemix OpenWhisk: IBM presents competitors to AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions. February 23, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  9. ↑ IBM expands Bluemix OpenWhisk with two IoT tools. June 22, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ IBM brings continuous delivery for Bluemix. December 7, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Serverless Programming: IBM's OpenWhisk is a finished cloud product. December 20, 2016, accessed May 29, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Bluemix is ​​now IBM Cloud: Build confidently with 170+ services - IBM Cloud Blog. October 20, 2018, accessed October 28, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Cloud giants: IBM Softlayer and Bluemix on the test bench - computerwoche.de. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .