node-red-bluemix

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

What is IBM Bluemix?

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

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Node-RED in BlueMix

This repository provides two things.

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

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

Deploying Node-RED into Bluemix

The quick way to do this is to log into the Bluemix 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 BlueMix.

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

2. Via the BlueMix 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.