Many companies are modernizing their applications through the use of microservices to democratize software development, providing greater agility in their software delivery pipelines. Developers building their applications using a microservices strategy need persistent container storage that is highly available, easy to provision, and can scale up and down without storage admin intervention. In this session, we discuss CloudBees Core (formerly Enterprise Jenkins) and how it is using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for simple, scalable, on-demand persistent container storage to support customer CI/CD workflows. Bring questions, prepare to discuss your implementation, and expect to have a deep discussion on how you can optimize your own deployment.

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Using Cloud File Storage to Accelerate
your Software Development Pipeline
Benjamin Rich
Senior Quality Engineer
CloudBees
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Geert Jansen
Senior Product Manager
AWS

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Agenda
AWS Storage portfolio and Amazon EFS intro
CloudBees – Who are we?
CloudBees – What is CloudBees Core?
CloudBees – Why we used Kubernetes?
CloudBees – How we used EFS?

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Portfolio breadth and depth
Amazon
EBS
Amazon
EFS
AWS Storage
Gateway
Family
Amazon S3

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PERFORMANCE
Amazon Elastic File System
Scalable, elastic, cloud-native Linux file system
SHARED ACCESS HIGHLY AVAILABLE
AND DURABLE
ELASTIC AND
SCALABLE
SECURE AND
COMPLIANT
STORAGE CLASSES

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What is CloudBees Core?
• Proven, full-featured CD
solution
• On-premise or in the cloud
• Extends Jenkins functionality to
the enterprise
• Integrates with Kubernetes &
Docker
Flexible, governed
continuous delivery

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CloudBees Core on modern cloud platforms
CLOUDBEES CORE
Managed Master Agent Agent
Managed Master Agent Agent
Managed Master Agent Agent
CloudBees Jenkins
Operations Center
Namespace Namespace
Namespace
Namespace
Namespace
Developer
Jenkins or
Team Admin
CD as a Service
Onboard Teams
Provisioning
Tools or Shared
Services
On Premise or Public Cloud

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Who benefits
CD as a Service
• On demand CI/CD
• Spend more time on coding
Developer
Jenkins or
Team Admin
Tools or Shared
Services
Simplifies provisioning
• Manage CloudBees Core as any other
application on Kubernetes
• Conform and enforce IT standards
• Delegate provisioning of masters
Reduces admin burden
• On demand team onboarding
• Easily manage permissions
• Simplifies provisioning of masters

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Autoscaling, resiliency & elasticity
• Automatically scales the CloudBees Core cluster by provisioning just the resources
needed by teams to run their CI/CD workloads without bottlenecks
• Automatically provisions Jenkins agents or masters in the event of any catastrophic
crashes, thus ensuring there’s no business disruption for the enterprise
• Amazon EFS is built to elastically scale on demand without disrupting applications,
growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications
have the storage they need, when they need it

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Autoscaling at the cluster level
K8s Node K8s Node K8s Node K8s Node
No capacity to
provision Jenkins
Provisions an additional node to
provision Jenkins instance
A new volume claim using EFS is
provisioned for Jenkins
Cluster scaling
Cloud Service Provider

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Architectural overview

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EFS—How we leveraged it
• Simplicity
• Setting up EFS is simple, with a couple click your done
• Provisioned Throughput
• Easily adjust throughput needed for your deployment
• Efs-provisioner
• Allows you to mount EFS storage as PersistentVolumes in Kubernetes

14. Thank you!
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Benjamin Rich
brich@cloudbees.com

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