Migrating to Cloud Foundry

What’s happening with applications today?Frameworks are what really matter •  Developer productivity and innovation •  Reduce time to marketNew application types •  Mobile, Social, SaaS •  Apps released early and oftenData intensive •  Emerging requirements: elasticity, multi-cloud •  Web orientation drives exponential data volumesDeployed on virtual and cloud infrastructures •  Virtualization, Cloud, PaaS 2

The Open Platform as a Service Deploy and scale applications inseconds, without locking yourself into a single cloud Open, ple, ble Sim , Scala lexible F

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Real choice of provider Choice of Private Choice of Public Choice of CloudCloud Distributions Cloud Providers Infrastructure .COM Bare metal 7

Deployment tools vmc (command line) 8

Core services 9

Developer Perspective• Program to standard APIs – SQL drivers – Mongo client libraries – ...• Connection settings from VCAP_SERVICES environment variable 10

When you’re ready to deploy... ! ! !$!vmc!target!<any!cloud>! !! !$!vmc!push!<my6app>! ! !!!>!bind!services?!Yes! ! !$!vmc!instances!<my6app>!+100!! ! ! ! That’s all folks! 11

The sample application• http://grails.org• Built with Grails – JVM web framework – Spring MVC under the hood – Groovy as the main development language 12

Architecture HTTP Controller View Twitter Service REST Async Plugin Update GORM/Hibernate Database Forum + Jobs 17

Single instance Cache Search Job indices App Node Local, embedded ehcache 18

Single instance Cache Search Job indices App Node Local Lucene indexes 19

Single instance Cache Search Job indices App Node Single job of each type 20

Multi-instance Cache Cache Cache Search Search SearchJob Job Job indices indices indices App App App Node Node Node3. Return 2. Return 3. Return 1. Updatestale data latest stale data 21

Multi-instance Cache Cache Cache Search Search SearchJob Job Job indices indices indices App App App Node Node Node Mail Job Mail Job Mail Job Jobs are executed three times? 22

Caching Caching shared data == Shared cache 23

Ehcache Simple & effective Distributed mode But... No multicast on Cloud Foundry! 24

So, what do we use?• Key-value store• In-memory with persistence (fast)• Pub-sub• Single service for all app instances 25

Grails Cache plugin• Based on Spring 3.1 cache abstraction – @Cacheable – @CacheEvict• Ehcache & Redis providers – Spring Data RedisCacheManager• <cache:block>• <cache:render template=”...”> 26

HTTP session Sticky sessions! 28

HTTP session Or consider Redis for distributed session store 29

Jobs• @Scheduled, Quartz, etc.• Which node runs a job? Local data Shared data Do nothing Quartz JDBC Worker Store 30

Distribution with workers Worker Worker Worker ? App App App Node Node Node 31

Distribution with workers Worker Worker Worker Node-specific data App App App Node Node Node 32

Jobs Pros Cons Efficient in-JVM Extra burden on web processing server Quartz Tried & tested Relatively simple Use right language for Counts against your the job quota Workers Distribute the workload 33

Search• Compass 2.0 – Lucene indexes on local file system – Indexes database data• > 1 node == stale indexes• Search as a service – Solr – Elastic Search – Index Tank – Amazon Cloud Search – Not on Cloud Foundry (yet)• Synchronise indexes across nodes! – Eventual consistency is good enough 34

Synchronisation with an event bus Distribute Distribute Distribute Initiate event Event Event Event bus bus bus 35

Schrödinger’s Cat There’s a cat in here! Is the cat alive or dead? 36

Local filesystem There’s a file in here! Does the file exist or not? 37

Ephemeral file system• VMs are created and destroyed – => application file system created and destroyed – You can write to the local file system... – ...but you will probably lose that data at some point• Don’t store persistent data on local FS! – File uploads 38

Wiki images Blob store GridFS Controller Upload User 39

Logging• View logs with `vmc logs`• What if the application instance is restarted? – Logs are gone• What about multiple application instances? – `vmc logs --instance 1` or `vmc logs --all` – but 30 days after deployment? 40

Distributed logging Node.js + SockJS + MongoDB AMQP AMQP AMQP Appender Appender Appender App App App Node Node Node 41

Config Package in the app? Store in database? Inject via environment variable? 42

Dynamic config load Config.groovy ConfigLoader.groovy 43

Mail• No SMTP - oh no!• HTTP providers – SendGrid – Mailgun – Amazon Simple Email Service 44

Easy HTTP Mail resources.groovy MailerJob.groovy 45

Data How do we load initial data? Perform data migrations? Back data up? 46

Access your services Mongo Client vmc tunnel (SSH Tunnel) Cloud Foundry MongoDB service 47

Import/export Import == mysql < data.sql Export == mysqldump 48

Application (WIP*) Source https://github.com/grails-samples/grails-website Live http://grails-website.cloudfoundry.com/* Work in Progress 49

Summary• PaaS is the application platform for the Cloud era• PaaS will change the way you write apps – Design for horizontal scalability – Account for ephemeral file system – Rich set of services – Go polyglot!• Tools & libraries are important – Spring for the win!• Can use Redis in place of RabbitMQ for some patterns 50

What’s next?• Sign up - www.cloudfoundry.com• Get the source code - www.cloudfoundry.org• Download your Micro Cloud Foundry – my.cloudfoundry.com/micro• Learn more on the Cloud Foundry blog - blog.cloudfoundry.com• Follow us - @cloudfoundry 51

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Migrating to Cloud Foundry

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