A simple logging platform

This is based on the example here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-bluemix-fundamentals-create-and-deploy-a-node-app-to-the-cloud/

The primary purpose of this project was for me to learn a little about integrating with Bluemix, about using Travis-CI, Node.js and Cloudant.

This code is expected to run inside Cloud Foundry, Cloud Foundry will make certain environment variables available to your application to use other services that are in your application space.

If running locally rather than inside cloud foundry you must set similar environment variables. Here a single environment variable VCAP_SERVICES is set with the following json. Replace "value" with the appropriate settings for your local or remote Cloudant instance.

{
  "cloudantNoSQLDB": [
   {
    "credentials": {
     "host": "some_uuid_value-bluemix.cloudant.com",
     "password": "some_password_value",
     "port": 443,
     "url": "some_https_url_value-bluemix.cloudant.com",
     "username": "some_username_value-bluemix"
    },
    "label": "cloudantNoSQLDB",
    "name": "some_db_name_value",
    "plan": "some_plan_value",
    "provider": null,
    "syslog_drain_url": null,
    "tags": [
     "data_management",
     "ibm_created",
     "lite",
     "ibm_dedicated_public"
    ]
   }
  ]
}

If running locally, sue the following to load appropriate environment variables:

source environment.sh

Note that you will have to have the appropriate vcap_services.json and vcap_application.json files

Docker

Build with the following:

docker build -t poclog .

Run with the following:

docker run -d -p 6099:6099 \
-e VCAP_SERVICES="$(cat vcap_services.json)" \
-e VCAP_APPLICATION="$(cat vcap_application.json)" \
-e CF_INSTANCE_PORT=6099 \
poclog