1. The document summarizes a workshop on managing blueprints for cloud deployment using FI-WARE. It discusses the basic concepts of the PaaS Manager including deploying applications, managing software installations, and providing flexible deployment architectures. 2. It then demonstrates the concepts through an example deployment of a blueprint template for an online shop application structured into three tiers and the creation of a blueprint instance. Chef is discussed as enabling infrastructure as code through configuration recipes. 3. Finally, it provides links to documentation on the open specifications for the PaaS Manager and Software Development Kit components within the FI-WARE platform.

1. Open APIs for Open Minds
Campus Party, FI-WARE – Workshop 2
Management of Blueprints
Fernando López (fla@tid.es), Sergio García (sergg@tid.es)
Telefónica I+D, September 2013
(slide available at : http://tinyurl.com/ws2-fiware)

2. Workshop Agenda
FI-WARE Intro - J. Hierro (TID)
FI-LAB Portal + Deploy your VMs - G. Toffetti (IBM)
Cloud blueprints - F. López and S. García (TID)
Open APIs - J. Kennedy (Intel)
Authorization using IdM - J. Cerviño and A. Tapiador (UPM)
FI-WARE Business Framework - Markus Heller and Thorsten Sandfuchs (SAP)
Connecting sensors to FI-WARE platform - Carlos Ralli (TID)
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3. Summary
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1. Basic Concepts.
2. Demo.
3. Documentation.

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1. Basic Concepts

5. Cloud Components
PaaS Manager
• Deploy Servers.
• Install any software.
• Config the software.
Context
BrokerCloud Portal
SDC Chef ServerDCRM
Software
Catalogue
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6. PaaS Manager objectives
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• Deploying applications and not only Servers.
• Ad hoc installation (not template usage).
• Managing applications in Servers (install, uninstall, configure, snapshot…).
• Deploying different environments for that applications.

7. Introduction
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• The PaaS Manager GE provides a new layer over
the DCRM.
• Orchestrate the provisioning of the required virtual
resources at IaaS level.
• Provide installation and configuration of the whole
software stack of an application through SDC
GEi, based on Chef or Puppet recipes (coming
soon).
• Provides a flexible mechanism to perform the
deployment, enabling multiple deployment
architectures.
PaaS Manager
SDC GEiDCRM
Server
Cloud Portal

8. Product Release & Product Instance
• Product Release is any packet software (usually middleware) that is installed previously
to the deployment of an application components.
• Contains the information about the software to be installed.
• Product Instance refers to the Product Release already instantiated (with some defined
attributes).
• Example: Apache Tomcat, MongoDB, MySQL, etc.
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9. Tier Template & Tier Instance
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• Each application is structured into one or several Tiers.
• A Tier comprises a set of servers with the same virtual image and set of software
products installed.
• Each of this server can to be cloned in order to handle elasticity.
• A Tier Instance is the result of instantiating a given Tier definition (Tier template).
• Nodes in a Tier are clonable.
• Example: A farm of web servers serving static web pages in the given portal associated
to a CRM application.

10. Blueprint Template & Blueprint Instance
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• Complete software stack required for the deployment of an application.
• Includes IaaS resource (Servers, Networks), products, configuration instructions.
• Example: an on-line shop application structured into three tiers.
All in one Tier
Firewall
node
Firewall
Several Tiers
Firewall
One scaled Tier
8080 8080

11. Summary of concepts
Blueprint template: fiware1
• Blueprint Template: platform specification to be
deployed.
• Tier: Each kind of software and server to be
deployed.
• Each Tier can be deployed in one or several
servers (e.g. tomcat, 2-5 servers).
• Blueprint Instance: Deployed in the testbed.Tier 1: Tomcat
Tier 2: Context Broker Tier 3: MongoDB
Server: 1
Server: 1
Servers: 2-5
Context Broker
Context Broker
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12. Chef enables infrastructure as code
• Manage configuration as idempotent resource.
• Put them together in recipes.
• Track it like source code (e.g. using github).
• Configure your servers.
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3. Documentation
• Open Specification PaaS Manager
https://forge.fi-ware.eu/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.PaaS
• Open Specification SDC
https://forge.fi-ware.eu/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.SDC

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