Migrating the toda-tocochan-bus Flask app to IBM Bluemix

I moved from GCP to IBM Bluemix!

How many minutes until the toco-chan bus?

Overview

After moving from Sakura VPS to GCP,
this time I migrated from GCP to IBM Bluemix.

Here is the earlier story from when I was running it on GCP:

On GCP, once I put an LB in front of GKE the price shot up dramatically
and I ended up exceeding the free tier (>_<).

My aim was somehow to keep running it at a low cost.

Why IBM Bluemix instead of Heroku?

The great thing about IBM Bluemix is how feature-rich it is.
You get Kibana for free, available by default.

It also supports integration with Git.

Below I have put together the steps, assuming you are working on a Mac.

Prerequisites

• Sign up for IBM Bluemix in advance

Signup IBM Bluemix

• clone

macOS%$ git clone https://github.com/kenzo0107/toda-tocochan-bus-on-ibmbluemix
macOS%$ cd toda-tocochan-bus-on-ibmbluemix

• Install the Cloud Foundry CLI

macOS%$ brew tap cloudfoundry/tap
macOS%$ brew install cf-cli

Deploy

macOS%$ cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
macOS%$ cf login
macOS%$ cf push <application name>

• The API differs depending on the Region.

Region	API URL
US South	https://api.ng.bluemix.net
United Kingdom	https://api.eu-gb.bluemix.net

Conclusion

Thanks to the Cloud Foundry CLI, the migration was easy too ♪

I thought that if I could do things like restricting access to specific IPs or domains for security,
it could be usable as a method for commercial use.

I asked them about that point, but I have not heard back for about two weeks, so I will reach out again.
↑ Questions were English-only!

I hope their support gets strengthened.

That’s all.
I hope this is helpful.