IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers

Using MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM® Containers, you can run instances of MobileFirst Server and MobileFirst Operational Analytics in containers on the cloud (IBM Bluemix®).

This offering enables you to build Docker images of your MobileFirst applications and runtimes and then run them using the underlying infrastructure of IBM Containers on Bluemix.

Supported operating systems include: Linux and Mac OS X.

MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers package overview

The MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers package contains the artifacts to create a MobileFirst Server container and a MobileFirst Operational Analytics container, and the components necessary for configuring and deploying them to Bluemix.

The MobileFirst Server container contains the following product components:
- IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Server
- IBM MobileFirst Platform Operations Console
- MobileFirst Data Proxy
The MobileFirst Operational Analytics container contains the following product components:
- IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics server
- IBM MobileFirst Platform Operational Analytics console
Additional components:
- Liberty for Java™ runtime
- Configuration files
- Scripts to build and deploy the containers

You will customize your product components in the given containers before they are built and deployed to the IBM Containers service on Bluemix.

Using the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation Containers

The main steps for using MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers are:

Customizing the product components included in the container.
Building the container image format with your customizations.
Deploying and running the built images on the IBM Containers service.

Prerequisites

A Java Runtime is required. See the system requirements for version information.
Cloud Foundry CLI plug-in for IBM Containers (cf ic).
Note: The prerequisite for using this plug-in is to install Cloud Foundry CLI. For details, see CLI and dev tools.
A Docker installation
An IBM Bluemix account

Evaluation version on developerWorks

There is an evaluation version of MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers V7.1 available as well as a related tutorial. You can download the evaluation package from IBM developerWorks®.

Also on developerWorks, learn how you can use IBM UrbanCode Deploy to define a DevOps deployment solution for your MobileFirst Platform Foundation artifacts.