node-red-bluemix

A wrapper for deploying Node-RED into the IBM Cloud platform.

What is IBM Cloud?

IBM Cloud is an implementation of IBM's Open Cloud Architecture, built on Cloud Foundry.

To sign-up for a free trial, head on over here.

Node-RED on IBM Cloud

This repository provides two things.

1. a wrapper to Node-RED that is suitable for deploying your own instance into IBM Cloud - under the public/app directory

2. a node.js application that serves this up as a quick-start boilerplate into the IBM Cloud dashboard.

Deploying Node-RED into IBM Cloud

The quick way to do this is to log into the IBM Cloud dashboard and select Node-RED Starter from the list of Boilerplates.

To manually deploy an instance, the steps can be taken.

This assumes you already have the cf tool installed and logged into IBM Cloud.

1. Decide what you want to call your application. For this example, let's go with nr-fred.

2. Via the IBM Cloud dashboard, create an instance of Cloudant NoSQL DB called: nr-fred:cloudantNoSQLDB

3. Create the file public/app/manifest.yml, with the following contents, updated to reflect your chosen name:

    ---
    applications:
    - name: nr-fred
      memory: 256M
      command: node node_modules/node-red/red.js --settings ./bluemix-settings.js
      services:
      - nr-fred:cloudantNoSQLDB
   

4. From within the public/app directory, run:

    $ cf push
   

5. Once deployed, you can access your instance of Node-RED at https://nr-fred.ng.bluemix.net.