MEAPs meet the Cloud
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The document discusses Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAPs) and IBM's MobileFirst Platform. It describes how MEAPs help enterprises deal with the complexity of building mobile apps at scale across devices while maintaining security and costs. The IBM MobileFirst Platform is a MEAP that provides integration, access control, developer tools, and a scalable gateway. It can run on-premises, on cloud infrastructure like Softlayer, or on Bluemix which is IBM's cloud platform for developers. Bluemix also offers container technology using Docker, and IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation can now run as a container on Bluemix.
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MEAPs meet the Cloud
- 1. MEAPs meet the cloud Martin Gale Master Inventor and CTO for Mobile, IBM UK and Ireland @martinjgale Andrew Ferrier Technical Lead, European Cloud Software Services - Mobile Practice @andrewferrier
- 2. What does IBM mean by MobileFirst?
- 3. Building an app can be pretty easy. Build the UI Create or reuse a REST endpoint Stand up a supporting database
- 4. But in an enterprise context this can get pretty complex, fast. When one app turns to many On a variety of devices Connecting to many back-end systems Must not compromise security Costs can’t spiral Must deliver quickly without damaging reputation
- 5. Introducing the Mobile Enterprise Application Platform. Integration Framework and APIs Access Control Developer SDKs and tools Scalable gateway Device vendor abstractions Reuse where possible across device platforms Help developers be productive Expose reusable services in a mobile-ready way Enforce consistent user access rights Control routes into the Enterprise Management information Understand the benefits and refine the approach
- 6. So what does a MEAP look like? Mobile'Middleware/MEAP' Apple'Push'No5fica5on' Service'/'Google'Cloud' Messaging'/'etc.' ' System'of'Record'2' System'of'Record'3' System'of'Record'1' Auth'Dir'
- 7. So what is IBM MobileFirst Platform? In 2012, IBM adopted a small company called Worklight to become IBM’s MEAP technology. We renamed IBM Worklight to IBM MobileFirst Platform in 2014 to more closely fit where mobile was going. Traditionally, folks deployed this on-premise or on IaaS (e.g. Softlayer, Amazon EC2). Used by 100s of customers for 1000s of apps.
- 8. IBM MobileFirst Platform is a MEAP Integration Framework and APIs Access Control Developer SDKs and tools Scalable gateway Device vendor abstractions Provide more abstractions on top of Cordova Provide Eclipse IDEs and Command-Line tools Provide JavaScript and Java (JAX-RS) Adapters Provide OAuth-based security model Single endpoint for all integration, app updates, etc. Management information A comprehensive Operational Analytics platform
- 9. Bluemix is IBM’s Developer-Centric PaaS Platform • Non-proprietary - built on Cloud Foundry • Exploits open-source technology - e.g. NodeJS • Get started for free
- 10. Bluemix has almost 100 services waiting for you…
- 11. IBM Containers is “Docker on Bluemix” Docker provides a way to containerise software. Docker virtualizes some aspects of a running process, in a way that makes you think it’s a virtual machine, but it isn’t (mostly). IBM provides an implementation of this in Bluemix called IBM Containers. Bluemix provides both a registry and a runtime engine for containers.
- 12. So now we’re bringing all these together… • Some MobileFirst capability for early adopters in Bluemix with the IBM MobileFirst Platform Services on BlueMix. • But now, IBM is making available IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation on IBM Containers on Bluemix (say that ten times fast!)
- 13. Maybe this is all a bit much … let’s show you.
- 14. You can try this yourself… https://ibm.biz/BdXNwc