Today, many companies, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others claim to provide the one and only cloud solution, but their offerings are different, aren’t they? Or do they have more in common than we think? Our talk starts with an introduction to cloud technology as it exists today by comparing the different products from the cloud providers. Next we will outline how technology from the Eclipse Runtime projects can contribute to a combined ’Cloud Stack’ and discuss currently available and possible future scenarios.

1. Cloud Computing and Eclipse
How does it fit together?
Markus Knauer (EclipseSource)
Harald Kornmayer (NEC Laboratories Europe)
© 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0 | 29.10.2009

2. Outline
• Cloud computing
• Jump on the Cloud
– Demo: Orchestration of Cloud infrastructure
• Cloud providers
– A ‘non-complete’ Overview
• Equinox on the Cloud
– Demo: Provisioning of a Cloud application with Eclipse
• Summary
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

3. The Cloud
• Today: No announcement in IT without the cloud
The market
and many
more!!
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

4. Individual Cloud experience?!
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

5. Individual Cloud experience?!
• Cloud examples are
 Google mail accounts
 Do you use it for your mails?
 Amazon Simple Storage
Service (S3)
 Did you know that you
downloaded Eclipse Galileo
from S3?
 Salesforce.com (CRM)
 Amazon Elastic Cloud
Computing (EC2)
 Google AppEngine
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

6. Cloud Definition
• Many definition exists!! • Essential characteristics
 On-demand self service
• NIST definition  Ubiquitous network access
 Location independent resource
“Cloud computing is a model for pooling
enabling available, convenient, on-  Rapid elasticity
demand network access to a  Measured services
shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g., • Delivery Models
networks, servers, storage,  IaaS
applications, and services) that can  PaaS
be rapidly provisioned and released  SaaS
with minimal management effort or
service provider interaction.” • Deployment models
 Private
(National Institute of Standards and Technology).  Community
 Public
 Hybrid
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

7. The cloud from 10000 ft
User front ends
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

8. Platform development in Eclipse
Embedded  Mobile  Desktop  Server  Cloud (?)
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

9. Cloud challenges
• What is common in all cloud systems?
• What are the basic requirements?
- Choice - Flexibility - Speed and agility - Skills
• How can the Open Source community overcome the
proprietary cloud systems?
• Can Eclipse contribute technology today?
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

10. Orchestrate a Cloud application with Eclipse
Bottom up
g-Eclipse
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

11. • Eclipse Technology Project
• Intuitive and easy access for
 Grid users,
 Grid resource providers
 Grid application developers
• Extensible framework including a Grid model
for seamless integration of Grid/Cloud resources
• Supports different Cloud/Grid middleware
 gLite, GRIA (middleware from EC projects)
 Amazon Web Service (AWS)
• Can run in headless mode as API
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

12. Cloud Demo – Infrastructure as a Service
• Prerequisites:
 AWS Account from aws.amazon.com
 Access Key and Secret Key
 registered for EC2 and S3
 A valid security group (preconfigured firewall)
• Use g-Eclipse to access AWS resources
 Create a Grid Project
 Access to S3 data
 EFS Implementation for S3 protocol
 Start EC2 instances
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

13. The cloud from 10000 ft
User front ends
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

14. Amazon Web Services – an example in details
Clients
Clients
UserInterface MachineInterface
Application / Software [ SaaS ]
Application
Alexa Web
Alexa Web Alexa Top Sites
Alexa Top Sites
Components Services
Information Serv.
Information Serv.
Flexible Payments
Flexible Payments DevPay
DevPay
Service (FPS)
Platform [ PaaS ]
Service (FPS)
Simple Queue
Simple Queue
Cloud Front
Cloud Front
Compute Storage Service (SQS)
Service (SQS)
Network
Elastic Simple DB +
Simple DB +
Elastic
MapReduce Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
MapReduce Infrastructure
Infrastructure [ IaaS ]
Elastic Compute Simple Storage
Simple Storage
Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2) Service (S3)
Service (S3)
Cloud (EC2)
Virtual Private
Virtual Private
Servers
Servers Cloud
Cloud
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

15. Amazon Web Services – in a nutshell!?!
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
– Simple file system accessible via the internet
• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
– Virtual computer accessible via SSH
– Linux or Windows
– Equinox can run on these resources!
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

16. Amazon Web Services – a common model?
Nimbus
Alexa Web
Alexa Web Science Clouds Alexa Top Sites
Alexa Top Sites
Information Serv.
Information Serv.
Flexible Payments
Flexible Payments DevPay
DevPay
Service (FPS)
Service (FPS)
Simple Queue
Simple Queue
Cloud Front
Cloud Front Service (SQS)
Service (SQS)
Elastic Simple DB +
Simple DB +
Elastic
MapReduce Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
MapReduce
Elastic Compute Simple Storage
Simple Storage
Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2) Service (S3)
Service (S3)
Cloud (EC2)
Virtual Private
Virtual Private
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

17. Tooling for Amazon Web Services
• Amazon EC2 management perspective
– Starts, stops EC2 instances
– Connects to Elastic Block storage
– Bundles EC2 images
– No connection to S3
• Support for Web application deployment
– Integration with WTP
• http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

18. GoGrid.com – another example in details
Clients
Clients
UserInterface MachineInterface
Application / Software [ SaaS ]
Application
Components Services
F5 BigIP Load
F5 BigIP Load Platform [ PaaS ]
Balancing
Balancing
Compute Network Storage
Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage
Infrastructure
Infrastructure [ IaaS ]
Cloud Server Images
Cloud Server Images Cloud Connect
Cloud Connect
Servers
Servers
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

19. GoGrid.com – in a nutshell!?!
• Cloud Storage
– Simple file system
– NOT accessible via the internet!
• only from GoGrid Cloud Server Images
• Cloud Server Images
– Virtual computer accessible via SSH
– Linux or Windows
– Equinox can run on these resources!
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

20. Google App Engine –
Web apps on Google's infrastructure
Clients
Clients
UserInterface MachineInterface
Application
Application / Software [ SaaS ]
Components Services Google App
Google App
Engine Python
Engine Python
Platform [ PaaS ] Google App
Google App
Engine JVM
Engine JVM
Goggle Docs
Goggle Docs Compute Network Storage Datastore //
Datastore
BigTable
BigTable
Memcache
Memcache
Infrastructure
Infrastructure [ IaaS ]
Servers
Servers
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

21. Google AppEngine – in a nutshell!?!
• Storage
– GoogleDocs
– Big Table / Datastore
• Google AppEngine
– Run applications in a JVM with limited capabilities
• Cannot create new threads
• Read-only access to file system
• Only a subset of the classes from the JRE standard edition
– Equinox can NOT run currently!
• Can this be changed?
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

22. Orchestrate a Cloud application with Eclipse (II)
Bottom up
P2
Equinox
g-Eclipse
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

23. Equinox, p2 – the Eclipse “platform”
Equinox
• is the core of Eclipse
• is an implementation of the OSGi R4 core specifications
• is a set of bundles that implement various OSGi services
• used on server side already
 Dynamic management of applications
p2
• Provisioning of components
• Compose complex applications
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

24. Cloud Demo – Platform as a Service
EC2 Instance
Java VM
Tomcat App Server
Equinox Servlet Bridge
Equinox / OSGi
p2
p2
console
console
Everything built with
Eclipse technology
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

25. Cloud Demo – Software provisioning
EC2 Instance
Java VM
Tomcat App Server p2
Equinox Servlet metadata repository
Bridge Application metadata
Application metadata
Equinox / OSGi
p2
p2
console
console
RAP application
RAP application
p2
artifact repository
Application artifacts
Application artifacts
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

26. Orchestrate a Cloud application with Eclipse
RAP
RT
Bottom up
P2
Equinox
g-Eclipse
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

27. Summary
• A full XaaS story on the cloud was demonstrated
 by combining results from different Eclipse projects
• Interoperability and vendor lock-in?
• Amazon provides Eclipse Tools for AWS (EclipseCon 2009)
• Microsoft announced Eclipse Tools for Azure (EclipseSummit 2009)
• g-Eclipse provides a middleware/infrastructure independent framework
• enables interoperability, choice, flexibility, …
• Equinox and its related projects can support Cloud applications
• p2, RAP and other RT projects
• Equinox can become the Cloud Operating System
• Eclipse offers an Open Source Eco System for Cloud computing today!
 Eclipse on the Cloud has a bright future!
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0

28. Resources
• http://www.eclipse.org/geclipse
– http://wiki.eclipse.org/G-Eclipse/AWS_Cloud_Getting_Started
– http://live.eclipse.org/node/820
• http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/
• http://www.eclipse.org/rap
• http://www.theserverside.com/blogs/thread.tss?
thread_id=57194
Cloud computing and Eclipse technology | © 2009 by Kornmayer, Knauer; made available under the EPL v1.0