This document discusses how to deploy, manage, administer and monitor WSO2 products. It covers planning the deployment including capacity planning, availability, load balancing and clustering. It then discusses deploying the products, managing and administration including backups, patching and upgrades. Finally it discusses monitoring the deployment.

1. WSO2 DevOps:
How to Deploy, Manage,
Administer and Monitor WSO2
Products
Amila Maharachchi
Chamith Kumarage

2. Agenda
● Introduction
● Planning the deployment
● Deploying the products
● Manage and administration
● Monitoring

3. Introduction
Let’s deploy a WSO2 Application Server cluster.
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4. Planning the deployment
● Capacity planning
● Availability
● Load balancing
● Clustering
● Deployment diagram
● Infrastructure
● OS level configurations
● Configuration management

5. Capacity Planning
● Expected traffic
○ TPS or TPM (not the TPD)
○ Need the max value
● Hardware configurations
● WSO2 recommended values

6. Availability
● When do you need the system to be available
○ 24*7
○ Certain time of the day only
● Decided by the mission criticalness
○ active - active
○ active - passive

7. Load Balancing
● There are many options
○ NginX, Apache HTTPD, AWS ELB
○ Hardware LBs
● Depends on
○ Infrastructure
○ Already available load balancers
● Stickiness, SSL Termination etc.

8. Clustering
● Cluster for
○ Availability
○ Scalability
● Artifact distribution
● Sharing the registry

9. Deployment Diagram
LB
AS - Worker
Node 1
AS - Admin
Node
UM DB
Registry
DB
SVN
AS - Worker
Node 1

10. Infrastructure
● On premise vs Cloud vs Hybrid
● VM configurations
● Operating system and other software requirements
● Database

11. Configuration Management
● Why?
○ Quick and easy instance provisioning
○ Maintenance
○ Single Point of Truth
○ Templating
● Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.

12. Deployment
Let’s do the deployment..
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13. Manage and Administration
● Maintaining a smooth run
● Backups
● Patching
● Upgrades

14. Backups
● What to backup?
● When to backup?
● Verify the integrity
● Restore drills

15. Patching
● WSO2 issues patches and service packs
● Puppet can be used to deliver patches

16. Upgrades
● Planning an upgrade
○ Minimize downtime
○ Data migrations
○ Staging drills
● Example
○ WSO2 API Manager 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 upgrade

17. Monitoring
● Health of physical servers / VMs
● Health of the products involved
● Functionality of deployment

18. Monitoring

19. WSO2 Managed Deployments
● Latest offering from WSO2
● Your deployment managed by our DevOps
● To whom this is beneficial
http://wso2.com/cloud/managed/

20. Thank You
amilam@wso2.com
chamith@wso2.com