Hi all, I've been trying out the www.bluemix.net IBM PaaS.
It took me a bit of digging to realise there is in fact a Python runtime. But you need a buildpack. The setup is different enough from Heroku to warrant this mini-HowTo: Step 1: Use the source version of Web2Py and copy the entire lot into a folder path: 'env/app' so that web2py.py is in the 'app' folder. Step 2: You need to have a requirements.txt file in the 'app' folder -- even if it is empty. (Although you might want to add a single line with just psycopg2, for example.) Step 3: You need to have a manifest.yml in the 'en'v folder (top level of the project) with something like the following content: applications: - host: mycoolapp name: mycoolapp command: python web2py.py -a 'yourpassword' -i 0.0.0.0 -p $PORT path: app domain: ng.bluemix.net mem: 128M buildpack: git://github.com/ephoning/heroku-buildpack-python.git instances: 1 You need to make sure that 'mycoolapp' is changed to be unique and 'yourpassword' is changed, too, obviously. Step 4: Push this entire 'env' directory to BlueMix by navigating to the 'env' directory and running: cf push This assumes you have installed the CloudFoundry CLI command line tool, although it also works if you put all the same resources described above into an empty/new linked JazzHub git project from BlueMix and simply press 'Deploy' from the web page provided. Handy. Some points to consider: 1. The file structure will hold and run the default SQLite db internally, but that's probably not what you want because the files are not designed/guaranteed to be persistent (flushed with a new/fresh deploy, for instance). Instead you can add PostgreSQL and use that for data persistence -- BlueMix gives you a Postgres connection URL, ready to use! You just add it as a service to the app. 2. If you change instances = 1 to a larger number, then you'll probably also want to add a Redis service and use Redis for sessions (or a db for sessions). This will most likely allow people to remain logged in when they are load balanced via round robin to another instance, but I have not tested that. (What I *did* test is that you don't stay logged in with multiple instances running, which suggests for larger-scale apps with multiple instances running you'l want a central Redis for sessions.) 3. You get a SSL-ready address at something like https://mycoolapp.ng.bluemix.net (wildcard certificate exists for *.ng.bluemic.net), but since it seems to have some kind of reverse proxy, Web2Py doesn't detect that the admin is being used under HTTPS: so you might want to also store errors in the DB, too. The default with Web2Py is errors in stored the file path. Or modify the app admin to ignore HTTPS (just remember to use HTTPS when logging in!) I hope this helps someone. BlueMix is free during Beta. Pricing to be announced in June, I think. It will be interesting to see what the pricing is. Overall I think the service is pretty good -- especially if you need formal DevOps. IBM have made the DevOps thing quite neat in BlueMix. I particularly like being able to 'click the Postgres hexagon' and get a DB connection URL back without any install/setup issues. Regs, Duncan. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
