Deploy WordPress on a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster for non-productive usage

January 20, 2020January 28, 2020Leave a comment

In this blog post I just want to highlight an awesome guideline I noticed on GitHub: How to deploy WordPress to a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster for non-productive usage?

Why do I say “non-productive”? Because of the free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster , which will be deleted after 30 days. Surely you can also deploy WordPress for production usage, when you deploy to a paid cluster. But maybe you got a feature code for free IBM Cloud at a conference or at a hackathon and you want play around with IBM Cloud, that could be one option.

You can find the instructions for the deployment here: Scalable WordPress deployment on Kubernetes Cluster. By the way, the project is under Apache 2.0 license.

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How to enter your promo code in the newer IBM Cloud UI? (UPDATE)

December 5, 2018September 10, 20193 Comments

This is just a small update to my blog post Promo code and free Kubernetes Cluster @IBM Cloud specific to the topic promo codes. Also be aware that a promo code is a feature code @IBM Cloud.

Currently IBM Cloud provides two UIs to access the IBM Cloud.
But don’t be afraid, when entering your code, this will work for both of them.

You can access the newer unified UI, with more functionalities, via http://cloud.ibm.com and the traditional UI you can access with www.bluemix.net.

If you enter your promo code in the newer UI just follow these steps:

Open Manage->Account in the IBM Cloud UI menu
In Account select Account settings
Here you can enter your promo code in Feature (Promo) Codes

The creation of the free Kubernetes Cluster has not changed.

I hope this was useful for you and let’s see what’s next?

Greetings,

Thomas

PS: By the way, you can use the IBM Cloud for free, if you simply create an IBM Lite account. Here you only need an e-mail address.

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Promo code and free Kubernetes Cluster @IBM Cloud

November 22, 2018April 2, 20207 Comments

You may have received a promo/feature code when you attended a conference, meetup, or hackathon, but you have no experience with IBM Cloud yet, and you want to access the free Kubernetes cluster in the IBM Cloud as soon as possible, because you can use the cluster for your own “playing” and “testing”.

To create a the free Kubernetes cluster you need a “trial” (no credit card needed) or a “pay as you go” (credit card needed) IBM Cloud Account. You activate an IBM Cloud trial account with your promo/feature code. In both cases you can use the free Kubernetes cluster.

The remaining usual questions are:

How to enter a promo/feature code?
How to instantiate a free Kubernetes Cluster ?

I created a short youtube video related to these questions below.

If you don’t want to watch the video, these are the simple three steps you have to follow:

1. Register at IBM Cloud:

2. Insert a promo/feature code:

New instructions are here:
- … my blog post: How to enter your promo code in the newer IBM Cloud UI? (UPDATE)
- … or on the IBM Cloud documentation

FYI: No longer valid:
- ~~Select “Manage->Billing” in the menu on the IBM Cloud WebUI~~
- Insert your promo code

3. Create a free Kubernetes Cluster:

Select the Kubernetes service from the catalog and press free cluster.
Give the cluster a name like cloud-native
Press create
Follow the instructions in the “Access” tab, to access your cluster with kubectl from your local pc.

That’s all.

When you start with IBM Cloud you educate yourself with the badge IBM Cloud Essentials related to IBM Cloud before you access the IBM Cloud. BTW, this way would be the best choice ;-). With IBM Cloud Essentials you have free education and an official badge.