Hands-on: easy microservices application development with microclimate

Microclimate is a brand-new, cloud native development environment that offers a complete, end-to-end development experience for Microservices. Since Microclimate has been designed with a focus on containerization, it can run anywhere from your local laptop, to an IBM Cloud private cluster. With Microclimate, you can create or import Java, Node.js, or Swift applications into the development environment, and using any editor of your choosing, you can quickly start development on your application in a containerized environment. Through a process called Rapid Iteration, Microclimate will quickly detect any changes that occur in your project and determine the minimal and best course of action to update your application. From there, using our integrated DevOps pipeline, you can deploy your application with Jenkins to a live ICP cluster. With these features, Microclimate offers a fully featured development experience that many other environments don't offer today. During the hands-on workshop, we will give you an introduction to Microclimate, starting from product installation to write Microservices applications to run on Microclimate in a Docker environment. You will get hands on experiences to create new applications and import existing applications into Microclimate. For developers, a crucial part of the development cycle is the ability to quickly develop and test applications changes on a running application. The develop-deploy-test-repeat cycle must be as short as possible in order to prevent lost developer productivity due to deployment downtime. You will be given the opportunity to experience this rapid iterative development support by developing Java and JavaScript applications in this workshop. Finally, during the workshop we will introduce the integrated DevOps pipeline functions provided that allows you get into production fast with a preconfigured DevOps pipeline and deploy application to IBM Cloud Private (ICP). We will also show you the diagnostic services that helps you to do problem determination in production.