My Stackato presentation given to the CopenhagenJS user group. Basic examples were implemented in Node. More information available at: https://logiclab.jira.com/wiki/display/OPEN/Stackato

1. Stackato
- a developers experiences and evaluation
by jonasbn for CopenhagenJS

2. Disclaimer
• I am jonasbn - like almost everywhere
• Long time Perl and web developer
• Open Source/CPAN contributor and
previously freelance developer in logicLAB
• Currently employed with DK Hostmaster
• I have no affiliation with ActiveState

3. (My) Developer Needs
• Easy access to platform, runtimes and
frameworks
• The least possible gap between
development, test and production
• Minimal differences between deployed
code and the code in the editor
• reproducibility for transparency

4. What do we have?
• Unit-tests
• Mocked objects and classes, stubs a.s.o
• Local servers / emulators
• Virtualization
• Dedicated environments (dev/test/prod)
• Code - lots of code... So what do we have - >
complexity

5. complexity
• We require magic
• We rely on tribal knowledge
• We need to jump through hoops
Reading all the articles on
the Intar web it sounds like
we need... -> the cloud

6. the Cloud
• What is the cloud?
• What problem does the cloud solve?
• What needs does the cloud address?
• So what is the cloud?

7. Found this in an article
on a business website
But everybody talks
about... -> Amazon!
Williamstown Theatre Festival?

8. Talking Cloud
You cannot ignore
Amazon and EC2

9. Dr. Matt Wood (@mtz)
• Technology Evangelist with Amazon,
working with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• http://youtu.be/NT-ccnFMBWA
• from Internetdagarna 2011 in Stockholm/
Sweden

10. Dr. Matt Wood / Heavy Lifting

11. Dr. Matt Wood / 30%

12. Points from Dr. Matt Wood
• 30-70% divide The general issue of development
vs. operations is quite wide-
spread, see something like the
GOTOCPH conference 2011 with
• IT infrastructure friction
a dedicated track
• Focus on your core competences
• Focus on delivering value
• http://www.slideshare.net/FDIHdk/ahead-in-
the-cloud-matt-wood-amazon

13. Amazon EC2
• Amazon EC2 however does not get us
there - no matter how much elasticity it
provides
• http://aws.amazon.com/ I personally was looking
for Perl in the cloud -
that was not easy

14. JS/Ruby/Perl in the
• @ActiveState introduces #stackato
based on phenona and Cloud
Foundry
• http://www.activestate.com/stackato
• http://www.cloudfoundry.com/

15. Stackato
• A micro-cloud
• current version 1.0.6
• out of beta, released 2012.02.29
• Platform as a Service (PaaS) private and
public
• Supporting several languages, their
frameworks and commonly-used services

17. Demo 1
Simple Node application

18. Demo 1 - recap
Node application

19. initial deployment
• target, where do we want to deploy
• login, it is all a matter of permissions
• push, a “one-click” CLI deployment

20. inspecting deployment
• logs
• crashes
• crashlogs
• files

21. operating
• start, start a service
• stop, stop a service
• restart, restart a service
• this is about it, for what I can provide for
now, I have no experience with long time
operation of a Stackato deployed service
• Oh there is one more thing...

22. Demo 2
the built in management console

23. Demo 3
Yet Another Node application

24. updating
• update, when an application has been
pushed (deployed) this is the command you
will use

25. All the little things
• binding DNS, going beyond mDNS
• binding services (databases et al.)
• resource allocation, memory, instances etc.
• logging (more on this later...)
• now for some architecture...

27. Support
• @ActiveState fora
• #stackato on irc://irc.freenode.org with
users and ActiveState staff
• Webcasts
• White papers
• ActiveState are incredibly open and
cooperative

28. Open Source Examples
• @ActiveState examples on Github
• my own fork is on Github
• Github is nice!

29. Stackato is not
• Open Source? - it is closed and proprietary
• @ActiveState is however dedicated to
keeping the micro-cloud solution free

30. So what is in it?

31. Targets!
• Multiple targets
• development / test / production
• Targets make sense in SCM context
• trunk / branches / tags (releases)
• You could just go for the micro-cloud, but
you would loose some of the benefits

33. But wait there is more!

34. Demo 4
the built in app store
You can have your very
own private app store

35. My Current Road Map
• Oracle as a service (Perl driver DBD::Oracle and Oracle
driver distribution issue)
• Cryptographic components (export of PPMs, Perl packages)
• Deployment of custom components
• Service integration (PostgreSQL)
• Full blown examples (Mojolicious over Mojolicious::Lite etc.)
• mDNS and dynamic DNS (might be .local)
• Central logging (syslog)

36. Conclusion
• The Stackato cloud is awesome
• @ActiveState mean serious business
• I am going to present and propose Stackato
as a part of our future infrastructure

37. Benefits
• Easy and controlled access to platform,
runtimes and frameworks
• The least possible gap between development,
test and production and minimal differences
between deployed code and the code in the
editor depending on your cloud deployment
• reproducibility for transparency since the
amount of magic is kept at a minimum

38. jonasbn!
• @jonasbn, jonasbn@logicLAB.dk
• Blogs: logicLAB.org and logicLAB.dk
• Presentation on Slideshare.com
• logicLAB Open Wiki

39. References
• http://www.slideshare.net/FDIHdk/ahead-in-the-cloud-matt-wood-amazon
• http://youtu.be/NT-ccnFMBWA
• http://logiclab.dk/wordpress/2011/11/30/internetdagarna-day-2-matt-wood/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTF
• http://smallbiztechnology.com/archive/2011/09/wait-what-is-cloud-computing.html/
• http://www.activestate.com/stackato
• http://www.cloudfoundry.com/
• https://logiclab.jira.com/wiki/display/OPEN/Stackato
• https://github.com/jonasbn/stackato-samples
• https://github.com/ActiveState/stackato-samples
• http://aws.amazon.com/
• http://mentalized.net/journal/2010/02/05/hello_rails_3_world/