What this book covers

Chapter 1, Saying Hello to IBM Bluemix, covers cloud computing and cloud service delivery models, and then lets us take a look at what Bluemix is. It also covers the different ways in which the platform is offered, along with an introduction to the IBM Bluemix public offering.

Chapter 2, Building and Deploying Your First Hello World Application on Bluemix, introduces you to application building on IBM Bluemix. You will learn how to build a simple application on Bluemix and deploy and run it.

Chapter 3, Extending an Application and Configuring for Continuous Delivery Using DevOps Services, teaches you how to extend existing applications on Bluemix to build additional functionality using some of the value-added services on Bluemix; this is illustrated along with a sample application.

Chapter 4, Leveraging On-Premise Software for Applications on Bluemix, demonstrates a very important aspect of modern application building environment, called hybrid cloud. We will see how on-premise or local software or applications can be leveraged to integrate with newer applications that are to be deployed on public cloud infrastructure.

Chapter 5, Scaling Applications in Bluemix, introduces you to application scaling. You will learn about the scaling options supported on Bluemix: manual and auto-scaling.

Chapter 6, Monitoring and Management in Bluemix, discusses the different services that can be used to monitor and manage applications. You will learn to work with the Monitoring and Analytics service for a web application deployed on Bluemix. Additionally, the chapter introduces readers to NewRelic, which is a third-party service on Bluemix.

Chapter 7, Compute Options on Bluemix, covers the different compute options available on Bluemix, such as containers, Cloud Foundry applications, virtual servers, and Open Whisk.

Chapter 8, Security Services on Bluemix, talks about the security services available on Bluemix and elaborates two of the available security services in Bluemix. You will learn how to offload the web application authentication functionality to the Single Sign On service on Bluemix.

Chapter 9, Microservices-based Application Development on Bluemix, talks about an architecture pattern for application development on the cloud, called the Microservices architecture pattern. You will also learn how to use Bluemix and services on Bluemix to build and deploy applications that employ the microservices architecture.

Chapter 10, Mobile Application Development on Bluemix, introduces you to services offered on Bluemix that are specifically for mobile application development. You will learn how to use some of these services to build a simple mobile catalog application.