This document discusses the evolution of Intalio's software deployment approach from bare metal servers to Platform as a Service (PaaS). It describes how Intalio initially deployed software on their own servers (DIY), which led to scaling issues. They then moved to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on AWS, but still faced complexity issues. Intalio then adopted PaaS using Cloud Foundry for "NoOps", allowing them to focus on development instead of operations. The document examines deploying applications to PaaS and how distributed architectures can be built on a PaaS.

1. Deploying Software on
a Platform as a Service
Cloud Foundry and Intalio|Create
Hugues Malphettes

2. About Hugues
• DevOps Lead at Intalio / Cloud PaaS Guru
• Jetty Committer: OSGi and friends
• Archived: Eclipse BPMN modeler
• 2000 - 2010: Silicon Valley
• 2011 - now: Singapore

3. Bob the IT guy

4. Louise the Developer

5. Intalio
What?
http://intalio.com
Enterprise Software Vendor
Deploys on the Cloud
How?
<spoiler>With a Platform as a Service</spoiler>

7. On AWS/
EC2
http://www.intalio.com/try-it-out

8. TOC
• History: On our way to the Cloud
• NoOps wonderland
• PaaS in action: outside / inside
• Distributed Architectures on a PaaS

9. • History: On our way
to the Cloud
• NoOps wonderland
• PaaS in action: outside / inside
• Distributed Architectures on a PaaS

10. On our way to the
Cloud: History
Coding Building

11. And then profit deploy?

12. Deployment is
not my problem
Customer’s Operations
Department; photo-shoot
It is MY production system

13. Bare Metal Deployment
DIY
YAGNI: You Ain’t Gonna Need It (cloud)
so DYI: Do It Yourself

14. Bare Metal Deployment
gone wrong
YAGNI / DIY meets scaling

15. The boss POV
“Fine :-)”
“What are
you doing?”

16. Infrastructure as a
Service
Intalio HQ circa 2008
[Boss]: Let’s move on the cloud.
No need to worry about:
• Deployment
• Support for multiple OSes
• Support for many SQL database
• Backups
• Scaling
Virtualizyfy!

17. Cloud Or snake oil?
Marketing `delivers` Embarrassed engineer:
the cloud right away it is still software

18. IaaS: AWS/EC2
Debian
Ubuntu VM on
Package
AWS/EC2
Repository

19. The boss POV
“Too
complicated”

20. IaaS Reality Check
Did the promises pay?
• Deployment
• No need to support multiple OSes
• No need to support many SQL databases
• Backups
• Scaling

21. IaaS Reality Check
“I still have a job and it is full time.
But the focus is not right”
[The Boss]

22. • History: On our way to the Cloud
• NoOps Wonderland
• PaaS in action: outside / inside
• Distributed Architecture on a PaaS

23. NoOps: No Operations
Code - Build - Test Deploy
http://localhost:8080 http://production.acme.com

24. NoOps wonderland
• Sys Admin: ad-hoc administration
of servers
• DevOps: automation of deployment
on a virtualized infrastructure
• NoOps: Takes as granted:
• Database provisioning
• Application deployment and management
Application Deployment and ma

25. $$$
NoOps

26. Choosing a PaaS
Make a requirement matrix:
• The type of clouds: public, private, hybrid
• The required runtimes and databases
• The licensing

27. Open Source PaaS: Cloud Foundry
http://github.com/cloudfoundry

29. Slide borrowed from Chris
Richardson’s @ vmware
Intalio is here at the moment:
small impact on our apps
lots of work on customizing the PaaS

30. • History: On our way to the Cloud
• NoOps Wonderland
• PaaS in action:
outside / inside
• Distributed Architecture on a PaaS

31. NoOps’s Hello World
• Hello World in Ruby / Sinatra
• Read the VCAP_PORT
• vmc <target>
• vmc <login>
• vmc <push>
• vmc instances <num>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8ImZCFHyeGA

33. Inside The PaaS
http://hello.cf.com
Nginx - Load Balancer - Reverse Proxy
Nginx - Lua: Router
http://dea_ip:1234 {HEADER: hello.cf.com}
Droplet Execution Agent
node /var/vcap/deployed-apps/your-app-1234/apps.js
node /var/vcap/deployed-apps/your-app-1234/apps.js

34. • History: On our way to the Cloud
• NoOps Wonderland
• PaaS in action: outside / inside
• Distributed
Architecture on a PaaS

35. Software is distributed now
Best in class cloud architectures:
many distributed services run by many apps
multiple databases

37. Monolith turned
swiss army knife
Game: find the original app
Challenges:
• maintenance is hard
• at $2200USD a piece it is costly to scale this

39. Big Application
Overloaded Database

40. Deploying a set of apps
and DBs with a PaaS
Intalio|Create current architecture

43. Questions?
hmalphettes@gmail.com

44. Thanks:
Stanley @ odd-e.com for brainstorming
The VMWare Cloud Foundry evangelists:
Chris Richardson, Josh Long and Rajdeep Dua.
Some ideas and slides
compliments from Chris Richardson
http://www.slideshare.net/chris.e.richardson/from-
concept-to-cloud-cf-opentour-india
http://www.slideshare.net/chris.e.richardson/
decomposing-applications-for-deployability-and-
scalability-cfopentour-india