Are you a Grails user or developer who want a quick and scalable infrastructure to deploy your Grails application? OpenShift is Red Hat's open source platform as a service that can run Grails applications with minimum fuss. This presentation discusses how to use Red Hat's open source public cloud platform to stand up Grails applications inside of EC2 in a matter of minutes. Best of all, OpenShift is free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-freedom which means you can deploy your Grails applications for no cost on OpenShift.

1. OPENSHIFT
PowerUp Grails Web
Development with OpenShift
Workshop
PRESENTED
BY
Shekhar
Gulati

2. WHO AM I?
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Shekhar Gulati -- OpenShift Developer Evangelist
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Java / JavaScript / Python / NoSQL / Cloud Guy
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Twitter Handle : shekhargulati
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Github https://github.com/shekhargulati
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Slides http://www.slideshare.net/shekhargulati
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Author of 30 Technologies in 30 Days blog series
https://www.openshift.com/blogs/learning-30-technologies-in-30-days-a-developer-challenge

3. AGENDA
➔
Learn a bit about Grails
➔
Learn some OpenShift cloud hotness
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Build a simple application
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Go live with a Grails PostgreSQL powered app
in ~ 60 mins

4. GOAL
http://techlinks-ideas.rhcloud.com/
Technologies Used
1) Grails 2.3.4 REST support
2) AngularJS
3) OpenShift
4) IntelliJ Idea

5. CODE DU JOUR
https://github.com/shekhargulati/grails-sample-app

6. ASSUMPTIONS
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You know Grails
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You know Git
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You like to write code rather than managing
servers.

7. ASK QUESTIONS
There are no stupid questions only stupid answers. So ask
questions

8. WHAT IS GRAILS?
1. Rapid Application Development Framework for JVM
2. Full Stack Framework
3. Convention over Configuration
4. M(domain class) V(GSP) C( groovy class) framework
5. Test Automation
6. Extensible via plugin architecture
7. REST API support
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10. PaaS == Platform as a Service
A Cloud Application Platform
Code
Code your app
Deploy
Push-button
Deploy, and
your App is
running in
the Cloud!
Enjoy
Save Time and Money

11. OpenShift
is
PaaS by Red Hat
Multi-language,
Auto-Scaling,
Self-service,
Elastic,
Cloud Application
Platform
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12. OUR STACK
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13. CREATING OPENSHIFT
ACCOUNT
https://openshift.redhat.com/app/account/new
Promo code is GRAILSCONF14
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14. QUESTIONS?