Overview

This self-paced course with hands-on exercises teaches you how to administer the cloud through both the Blueprint Designer and the Horizon user interface. 

IBM UrbanCode Deploy is a tool for standardizing and simplifying the process of deploying software components to each environment in your development cycle. When you use blueprints for OpenStack-based clouds, you can use a full-stack approach to simultaneously model the application and infrastructure layers of your deployment.

In this course, you learn how to administer the cloud through both the Blueprint Designer and the Horizon user interface. Hands-on labs use IBM UrbanCode Deploy in a cloud environment and cover integrations with an OpenStack back-end and IBM UrbanCode Deploy, modeling the cloud infrastructure and application layers, provisioning environments from blueprints, creating and using configuration files, updating a running environment, and using Git repositories to store and manage blueprints.

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Audience

This is a basic course for new users of the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Blueprint Designer, such as administrators, performance testers, development teams, and operations leads.

Prerequisites

Before you take this course, you should have basic knowledge about the following topics:

• Cloud computing (private and public)
• OpenStack, in particular the Heat project
• IBM UrbanCode Deploy applications and components

Objective

• List the concepts and use cases of the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Blueprint Designer
• Configure the IBM UrbanCode Deploy Blueprint Designer for public and private cloud operation
• Model cloud landscapes in a graphical and text-based way
• Deploy simple and advanced cloud environments
• Use the repository for storing and managing blueprints

Exercises

• Configuring the blueprint design server integrations
• Modeling a heat stack and provisioning a cloud infrastructure
• Deploying applications to a cloud environment
• Modeling a two-server blueprint and provisioning form the IBM
• Using repositories to store and manage blueprints

Course Outline

• Overview
• Settings and Configuration
• Blueprints and Cloud Infrastructure
• Blueprints and UCD Apps
• Blueprints and UCD Provision
• Repositories