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Node-RED in Production Workshop

This workshop takes you through how to setup a Node-RED environment suitable for creating cloud-native applications.

Shortlink for this workshop: https://ibm.biz/NRWorkshop

Prerequisites

To complete this workshop, you will need:

• node.js 10.x or 12.x.
• a GitHub account (the same result can be achieved using GitLab, however the instructions included only cover GitHub)

As part of the workshop you will be asked to install:

• Node-RED 1.0.x
• IBM Cloud CLI
• a local CouchDB instance - either as a Docker image, or a local install.
• Travis CLI (part 5 only)

You will also create:

• an IBM Cloud account

Slides

The slides for this workshop are available here: https://speakerdeck.com/knolleary/node-red-in-production

Workshop Parts

The workshop is split into the following five parts:

• Part 1: Getting Started with Node-RED

  Get a Node-RED application running locally against a CouchDB database

• Part 2: Setting up your Cloud environment

  Create an IBM Cloud account and install the ibmcloud command-line tool

• Part 3: Deploy you application to the IBM Cloud

  Get your application running in the IBM Cloud

• Part 4: Connect your application to a cloud-hosted database

  Create a cloud-hosted Cloudant instance and configure the application to use it with separate development and production databases

• Part 5: Setup a deployment pipeline to IBM Cloud

  Create a deployment pipeline use TravisCI to automatically deploy your application when pushing updates to a GitHub repository

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