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Solution tutorials

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Learn how to build, deploy and scale real-world solutions on IBM Cloud. These guides provide step-by-step instructions on how to use IBM Cloud to implement common patterns based on best practices and proven technologies.

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Featured Tutorials

Use a VPC/VPN gateway for secure and private on-premises access to cloud resources

Connect a Virtual Private Cloud to another computing environment over a secure Virtual Private Network and consume IBM Cloud services.

Scalable web app on OpenShift

Scaffold a nodejs web application, run it locally in a container and then deploy it to an OpenShift cluster. Additionally, bind a custom domain, monitor the health of the environment and scale.

Websites and Web Apps

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Scalable web app on Kubernetes

Scaffold a Java web application, run it locally in a container and then deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. Additionally, bind a custom domain, monitor the health of the environment and scale.

Move a VM based application to Kubernetes

Take a VM based application, containerize it, deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. Use the steps as a general guides for other applications.

Strategies for resilient applications

Regardless of the Compute option: Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Functions or Virtual Servers, enterprises seek to minimize downtime and create resilient architectures that achieve maximum availability.

Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes

Set up a continuous integration and delivery pipeline for containerized applications running on a Kubernetes cluster. Add integrations to other services like security scanners, Slack notifications, and analytics.

Scalable web app on OpenShift

Scaffold a nodejs web application, run it locally in a container and then deploy it to an OpenShift cluster. Additionally, bind a custom domain, monitor the health of the environment and scale.

Accelerate delivery of static files using Object Storage and CDN

Host and serve website assets (images, videos, documents) and user generated content in a Cloud Object Storage and use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for fast and secure delivery to users around the world.

Accelerate a dynamic website using Dynamic Content Acceleration

Use Dynamic Content Acceleration to reduce latency for dynamic and uncacheable contents of your web application.

Asynchronous data processing using object storage and pub/sub messaging

Use the Apache Kafka based Message Hub to orchestrate workloads between microservices running in a Kubernetes cluster and store data in Object Storage.

Web application on LAMP stack

Create an Ubuntu Linux virtual server, with Apache web server, MySQL, and PHP. Then install and configure the WordPress open source application on the LAMP stack.

Deploy a LAMP stack using Terraform

Use Terraform to provision a Linux virtual server, with Apache web server, MySQL, PHP and the IBM Cloud Object Storage service. Update the configuration to scale the resources and tune the environment.

Plan, create and update deployment environments

Automate the creation and maintenance of multiple deployment environments with IBM Cloud CLI and Terraform.

Use Virtual Servers to build highly available and scalable web app

Create a load balancer, two application servers running on Ubuntu with NGINX and PHP installed, one MySQL database server, and durable file storage to store application files and backups.

Modern web application using MEAN stack

Build a web application using the popular MEAN stack - Mongo DB, Express, Angular, Node.js. Run the app locally, create and use a database-as-a-service, deploy the app and monitor the application.

SQL Database for Cloud Data

Provision a SQL relational database service, create a table, and load a large data set into the database. Deploy a web app to make use of that data and show how to access the cloud database.

Serverless web application and API

Create a serverless web application by hosting static website content in GitHub Pages and using Cloud Functions to implement the application backend.

Deploy serverless apps across multiple regions

Use Cloud Functions and Internet Services to build globally available and secure serverless applications.

Analyze logs and monitor application health with LogDNA and Sysdig

Use IBM Log Analysis with LogDNA to understand and diagnose application activities. Monitor applications with IBM Cloud Monitoring with Sysdig.

Isolated Cloud Foundry Enterprise Apps

Provide an innovation platform to your organization by deploying an isolated, enterprise-grade Cloud Foundry platform using Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment.

Chatbots

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Build a database-driven Slackbot

Build a database-driven Slackbot with IBM Watson Assistant, Cloudant and IBM Cloud Functions.

Build a voice-enabled Android chatbot

Define intents, entities and build a dialog flow for the chatbot to respond to customer's queries. Enable speech to text and text to speech services for easy interaction with the Android app.

Security

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Secure web application across multiple regions

Create, secure, deploy, and load balance a web application across multiple regions using a continuous delivery pipeline.

Resilient and secure multi-region Kubernetes clusters

Integrate Cloud Internet Services with Kubernetes clusters to deliver a resilient and secure solution across multiple regions.

Create, secure and manage REST APIs

Create a new REST API using the LoopBack Node.js API framework. Add management, visibility, security and rate limiting to the API using the API Connect service on IBM Cloud.

Apply end to end security to a cloud application

Create a secure cloud application that features data encrypted with your own keys, user authentication, and security auditing.

Enhance security of your deployed application

Enhance security of your cloud application by isolating compute, network and runtime resources.

Mobile

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iOS mobile app with Push Notifications

Create an iOS Swift application with Push Notifications on IBM Cloud.

Android native mobile app with Push Notifications

Write an Android native application with Push Notifications on IBM Cloud.

Mobile application with a serverless backend

Use Cloud Functions with cognitive and data services to build a serverless backend for a mobile application.

Machine Learning and Analytics

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Big data logs with streaming analytics and SQL

Collect, store and analyze log records to support regulatory requirements and aid information discovery. Using publish-subscribe messaging, scale the solution to millions of records and then perform analysis on persisted logs with familiar SQL.

Build a data lake with Object Storage

Provide tools to data scientists to query data using SQL Query and conduct analysis in Watson Studio. Share data and insights through interactive charts.

Combining serverless and Cloud Foundry for data retrieval and analytics

Automatically collect GitHub traffic statistics for repositories, store them in a SQL database and get started with traffic analytics.

Build, deploy, test, and retrain a predictive machine learning model

Build a predictive machine learning model, deploy it as an API, test and retrain the model with feedback data.

Analyze and visualize open data with Apache Spark

Analyze and visualize open data sets using a Jupyter Notebook. Uses the Apache Spark service with IBM Watson Studio and Pixiedust to generate graphics.

Internet of Things

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Gather, visualize and analyze IoT data

Set up an IoT device, gather large amounts of data in the Watson IoT Platform, analyze data with machine learning and create visualizations.

Identity and Access Management

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Best practices for organizing users, teams, applications

An overview of the concepts available in IBM Cloud to manage identity and access management and how they can be implemented to support the multiple development stages of an application.

Virtual Private Cloud

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Private and public subnets in a Virtual Private Cloud

Create a virtual private cloud with subnets and instances. Secure your resources by attaching security groups and only allow minimal access.

Deploy isolated workloads across multiple locations and zones

Deploy a workload in virtual private clouds across multiple zones and regions. Distribute traffic across zones with local and global load balancers.

Use a VPC/VPN gateway for secure and private on-premises access to cloud resources

Connect a Virtual Private Cloud to another computing environment over a secure Virtual Private Network and consume IBM Cloud services.

Install software on virtual server instances in VPC

Learn how to use the IBM Cloud CLI, Terraform and Ansible to install software on virtual server instances running in a Virtual Private Cloud.

Securely access remote instances with a bastion host

Deploy a bastion host to securely access remote instances within a virtual private cloud.

Classic Infrastructure

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Isolate workloads with a secure private network

Configure a Virtual Router Appliance to create a secure enclosure. Associate VLANs, provision servers, setup IP routing and firewalls.

Configure NAT for Internet access from a private network

Use NAT masquerade to translate private IP addresses to out-bound public interface.

Bring Your Own IP Address

An overview of BYOIP implementation patterns and a guide to identify the appropriate pattern.

VPN into a secure private network

Create a private connection between a remote network environment and servers on IBM Cloud's private network.

Linking secure private networks over the IBM network

Deploy two private networks that are securely linked over the IBM Cloud private network using the VLAN Spanning service.

Hosting web applications from a secure private network

Create a scalable and secure Internet facing web application hosted in private network secured using a virtual router appliance (VRA), VLANs, NAT and firewalls.