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Run Marbles on IBM Cloud

Run Marbles on IBM Cloud (command line)

  1. Well to do this correctly you first need to run marbles locally.

  2. Seriously make sure marbles on your local machine starts up and you have traded a marble successfully before you continue. You do not want to troubleshoot config settings with the IBM Cloud flow. It will take forever and you may lose your marbles mind.

  3. Edit manifest.yml. This file is in the root of your marbles directory.

    • We need to change the application name in this file since "marbles" is taken. Try to pick a unique name (or else the next steps will fail, and you will have to try again).
    ---
applications:
- disk_quota: 1024M
  name: CUSTOM_NAME_HERE
  command: "node app.js"
  path: "."
  instances: 1
  memory: 256M

  4. Install the Cloud Foundry Command Line Tool

    • Download an installer for your OS

    • Run the installer

    • Lets test it by opening a command prompt or terminal window and typing

        > cf

    • You should see a bunch of text.

    • If you get something like command not found, then your installation was either not successful or CF is not added to your system path. Windows/Linux/Mac have different ways to edit the PATH therefore look up instructions for your OS.

  5. Login to CF

    • Open a command prompt or terminal window

    • Type:

        > cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
  > cf login
  (follow the prompts to enter your IBM ID and password)

  6. Push the application by opening a command prompt and browsing to your marbles directory

     > cf push YOUR_APP_NAME_HERE

  7. This can take some time to complete (1-3 minutes). You will see logs from IBM Cloud, but they will stop once the app launches.

    • To see logs from marbles during and after its start up open a second terminal/command prompt and type:

      cf logs YOUR_APP_NAME_HERE

    • If you missed the start up logs try:

      cf logs YOUR_APP_NAME_HERE --recent

  8. If all goes well you should see this message in the console:

     --------------------------------- Server Up - 0.0.0.0:xxxx ------------------------------------

  9. Once you see the message below you are good to go:

     ---------------------------------------- Websocket Up ------------------------------------------

  10. Marbles is running! Now continue the tutorial.