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{
"id": "jboss-db-example",
"name": "Java EE 6 Web Profile",
"source": "git://github.com/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example.git",
"description" : "A full Java EE 6 Web Profile application, with a database and continuous deployment",
"doc-url" : "https://github.com/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example/blob/master/readme.md",
"icon" : "https://d3ko533tu1ozfq.cloudfront.net/clickstart/ee_icon.png",
"app-package" : "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudbees-downloads/clickstart/jboss-db-example.war",
"supported-by" : "cloudbees",
"order" : 1,
"runtime": {
"type": "jboss"
},
"databases": [
{
"type": "mysql",
"alias": "ExampleDS"
}
],
"build-with-jenkins": {
"template": {
"type": "maven",
"options": {
}
}
}
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- 1. Mark Prichard |CloudBees Platform-as-a-Service and AWS: the new Enterprise Java?
- 2. 2 Apologies in Advance:I’m very right- handed ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 3. 3 • Cambridge UniversityComputer Lab, 1990-1991 • Logica/SHL/CSC: 1991-2000 – Integration/Middleware Specialist – Managing Consultant • BEA Systems, 2000-2008 – Senior Architect, EMEA – Director, Java Virtualization • Oracle, 2008 -2012 – WebLogic Platform PM – FMW Web Tier PM • CloudBees, 2012 – Senior Director of Product Management Mark Prichard – My Back Pages ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved @mqprichard mprichard@cloudbees.com blogs.cloudbees.com Clouds, Bees and Blogs
- 4. 4 What did welike about JavaEE? • Standard way to build apps • Massive, proven eco-system of libraries, APIs, tools • Rich set of APIs and containers to simplify: e.g. – Messaging – Connection Pooling • Tooling and infrastructure to simplify deployment, configuration, resource management and monitoring • It worked
- 5. 5 What did wenot like about JavaEE? • Stack often too heavy for most applications • Sizing, scaling and performance: black arts • Hard to “mix and match” application services • Too much emphasis on the infrastructure • Iterative development slowed down • Pace of innovation slowed • Loss of developer focus
- 6. 6©2012 CloudBees, Inc.All Rights Reserved Having your cake and eating it • Lightweight, web framework stacks • Fully-curated or runtime-managed • REST + JSON + SaaS architectures • Elastic, on-demand deployments • If you need application services, choose: – AWS IaaS or SaaS for managed services • Integrated ALM, management/monitoring • Java IDE integration for rapid, iterative development
- 7. 7 What is Platform-as-a-Service? •We run your applications for you • We provide and manage all the supporting infrastructure needed to run your apps • We monitor, manage and can scale out your apps • We provide a full, enterprise-class build environment using Jenkins CI – the world’s #1 OSS continuous integration server • Fully integrated ecosystem of cloud services
- 8. 8 CloudBees Is aPlatform Delivered As A Service cloudbees.com Jenkins Master Test Stage Build Code Jenkins Executor Forge Repositories Git SVN mvn Development Services (DEV@cloud) Developer and Operations Interaction End User Interaction Runtime Services (RUN@cloud) CloudBees API Grand Central Web Console SDK Session Clustering MySQL Router Application Partner Ecosystem 8 ©CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved Multi- Tenanted Dedicated Amazon Web Services
- 9. 9 Have You MetJenkins? • #1 OSS CI server • Easy to install/use • Extensible via 600+ plugins • Very widely adopted – 47K+ installations • Very active community – Over 7 years of history, 440+ releases – 600+ plugins, 300+ developers • CloudBees adds plugins for cloud builds
- 10. 10 Cloud Terminology • Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS) – Think: Amazon Web Services – What: Server Instances, Storage Buckets etc • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – Think: Salesforce.com – What: Packaged Applications (in the Cloud) • Plaform-as-a-Service (PaaS) – What: Managed Service for Custom Apps
- 11. 11 Getting Started: CloudBees ClickStarts ©2012CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved The easiest way to get started – and learn new technologies
- 12. 12 More coming allthe time ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 13. 13 • I amstarting to work with in a new project and need to get going quickly • I need to learn about a new framework and want to learn using a working example • I want to hand off my project to a customer • I want to capture my work so others can re-use it ClickStarts: not just for demos… 13 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 14. 14©2012 CloudBees, Inc.All Rights Reserved My shoulder hurts…
- 15. 15 cloudbees.com What’s up withthis new framework! What Did I Just Do? 15 CloudBees Git Repo Database Build/Test db:create App Partner Service Partner Service CloudBees API Grand Central Web Consol e Bind Bind Trigger Deploy Wow! At your service ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All rights reserved
- 16. 16 ClickStart.json: Putting ItAll Together 16 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved { "id": "jboss-db-example", "name": "Java EE 6 Web Profile", "source": "git://github.com/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example.git", "description" : "A full Java EE 6 Web Profile application, with a database and continuous deployment", "doc-url" : "https://github.com/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example/blob/master/readme.md", "icon" : "https://d3ko533tu1ozfq.cloudfront.net/clickstart/ee_icon.png", "app-package" : "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudbees-downloads/clickstart/jboss-db-example.war", "supported-by" : "cloudbees", "order" : 1, "runtime": { "type": "jboss" }, "databases": [ { "type": "mysql", "alias": "ExampleDS" } ], "build-with-jenkins": { "template": { "type": "maven", "options": { } } } }
- 17. 17 How do Icall a ClickStart? 17 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved <a href="https://grandcentral.cloudbees.com/?CB_clickstart=https://raw.github.com/Cloud Bees-community/play2-clickstart/master/clickstart.json"><img src="https://d3ko533tu1ozfq.cloudfront.net/clickstart/deployInstantly.png" style="max- width:100%;"></a>
- 18. 18 How an AppBecomes a Stack - Java 18 Java App (jar) Infrastructure Java VM Java APICloudBees-Curated Stack User-Created CloudBees-Curated Java EE App (war) Infrastructure Java VM Java APICloudBees-Curated Stack User-Created CloudBees-Curated Java EE (jars) • Interaction is with the JavaVM and API • Deployment unit is jar file • Interaction is with the Java EE Server • Deployment unit is war file • Extensions thru container contract and vendor facilities Java Runtime Stack Java EE Runtime Stack ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 19. 19 Frictionless Extension andReuse Customer & SI Managed Community Managed CloudBees Curated Fork Push Push Clone 19 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 20. 20 How an Appbecomes a Stack – General Case 20 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved • Interaction is with Apache and PHP • Deployment unit is PHP and HTML files • Interaction is with Drupal CMS • Deployment unit is a web site Profile • Extensions thru modules, libraries PHP Runtime Stack Drupal Runtime Stack PHP App (php) Infrastructure CloudBees-Curated Stack User-Created CloudBees-Curated Apache PHP Interpreter Site Profile (zip) Infrastructure CloudBees-Curated Stack User-Created CloudBees-Curated Drupal (zip) Apache PHP Interpreter
- 21. 21 What does PaaSmeans to you? • Keep quality high while delivering to tight schedule • Use the best tools for the job • Coordinate visible progress across team • Make best use of existing technology investments • Sustainability of new investments • Protect business in the event that a problem occurs • Reduce risk and cost • Reproducibility of deployments • Ensure systems security • Time to market • Constant delivery of new value/features • Better insight into customer usage/needs CloudBees offers unique, concrete value in each of these areas. Dev/QA Enterprise Architect DevOps and Sys Admins Product Lead 21 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 22. 22 • Problems – Ineed to provide a high quality product on an aggressive schedule – I need a way to track where everything is in a release cycle • Solution – Set up a dev-test-stage-production pipeline in the cloud – Unify your CI and CD: use the language and stacks you prefer. • Benefits – No IT procurement/setup delays or headaches – Enforce Dev and QA org values and processes using Jenkins – Fast feedback cycle, fast delivery cycle, better quality Speed and Quality – Developer and QA 22 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 23. 23 Problem • Develop aJava-based web app for weight loss management that is capable of scaling to meet unknown consumer demand Solution • Use RUN@cloud from CloudBees to streamline deployment, support tens of thousands of transactions/minute and rapidly scale up or down as needed Benefits • Deployment in minutes, not weeks • Reliable, high-volume transactions with no administration overhead • Increased focus on core differentiators Proof Point – Lose It! Rapid Scalability, Laser Focus on User Experience Is The Key To Mobile Success ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved “Off-loading the technical back-end work to CloudBees enabled our team to direct all their efforts towards one objective-creating a compelling, innovative user experience that will help people lose weight.” Charles Teague Lose It! 23
- 24. 24 • Problems – Ineed to get a product out quickly to meet business needs. – I need adapt my existing processes to deliver mobile apps • Solution – CloudBees provides all the tools and support so that you can focus exclusively on application development. – Use DEV@cloud and best-of-breed CloudBees partner solutions to automate mobile app development, testing, and deployment • Benefits – All resources available on-demand, delivered as-a-service – Deliver and improve functionality continuously, incrementally Time to Market – Product Lead 24 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 25. 25 Problem • Develop aglobal e-commerce system to enhance online customer experience while providing consistency and flexibility to GROUPE ADEO companies Solution • CloudBees DEV@cloud solution for faster development, increased productivity and efficiencies offered by the cloud Benefits • Speed up of more then 5x in setting up new projects • One week of development productivity gained, per month • Ability to instantly scale, as needed • Easy extensibility of platform functionality Proof Point – Groupe Adeo Agile Development Delivers Results for Global e-Commerce App 25 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved “ADEO needed to combine continuous integration for agile development with the simplicity of the cloud. We didn’t find any other production-ready PaaS solutions that could provide the same functionality provided within DEV@cloud.” Didier Girard Groupe Sfeir
- 26. 26 • Problem – Weneed to get the initial product out quickly, but be able to add new feature/function rapidly and with confidence from there. • Solution – Continuous Cloud Delivery is the best approach to keeping your product in a release-ready state at all times, ensuring that you can continue to drive new feature/function out rapidly. • Benefits – Eliminate impedance mismatch between staging and production – Always have the right resources available when you need them – Pipelines and promotions deliver quick feedback, high quality Continuous Delivery– Enterprise Architect 26 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 27. 27 Problem • Get tomarket first, delivering a digital supply chain for white labeled loyalty programs in a space previously dominated by a few established players Solution • Use the CloudBees PaaS and Continuous Cloud Delivery to deliver fast, deliver early, and deliver quality Benefits • First to market, won significant new business with major companies • Able to focus exclusively on application development, leaving IT admin to CloudBees • Scale for spiky loads, providing sub-second response times to digital inventory of over 8 million items • Stand up entirely new projects for new customers in under an hour Proof Point – Choose Digital Choose Digital Transforms Loyalty Programs with Digital Content Marketplace ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved “We use continuous integration and continuous delivery with CloudBees, enabling every developer to deliver incremental functionality while being accountable for his or her own code. As a result, the effort of each developer is aligned to the goals of the company, and that keeps us lean, focused and fast.” Mario Cruz Choose Digital 27
- 28. 28 • Problem – Ihave established practices operationalizing how I deploy, update, and secure what Development produces. – I need everything scripted– I can’t depend on any one person • Solution – Use Jenkins to automate and control deployments reproducibly using the CloudBees deployer and SDK. • Benefits – Maintain control where you add most value, offload elsewhere – Roll back as needed to a previous state – Trace problems to their origin Best Practice Blueprints – IT Ops 28 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 29. 29 Problem • Deliver anevolving set of customized apps against a common production backend system at a rapid cadence Solution • Use the CloudBees PaaS to deploy and manage over 60 cloud applications for Bullhorn customers Benefits • 80% reduction in time spent resolving infrastructure issues • Scalable infrastructure enables Bullhorn to meet demanding customer needs • Focus on customer satisfaction – not development infrastructure Proof Point – Bullhorn Streamline Application Delivery and Cloud Deployment for Customers ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved “The ROI we’ve experienced since we began working with RUN@cloud has been phenomenal.” Matthew Fisher Bullhorn, Inc. 29
- 30. 30 Mobile Development isa Perfect Example ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 31. 31 PaaS Accelerates MobileDevelopment 31 ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved • Local coding, unit tests on one or a few platforms • Push to shared repository • Automatically kick off broader tests async • Fix issues when notified Development Push • Matrix testing across device targets and locales • Track long-running tests and regression suites • Support older releases • Gate uptake across teams Quality Assurance Promote • Push to staging at proper milestones • Coordinate beta and limited access testing • Gate push to production Release Engineering Build Distribute Gather Report Archive Stage ZHUBIUM
- 32. 32 • Visit theCloudBees Mobile Mall: http://pages.cloudbees.com/mobile-mall.html Blueprints and Resources for Mobile Projects ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 33. 33 • Token VendingMachine: AWS, PaaS and Mobile • Blogs: Amazon Web Service and Platform as a Service • Token Vending Machine ClickStarts Explore PaaS and Amazon Web Services ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- 34. 34 Quick Sidebar: WhatDoes It Cost? • Your app always runs in secure, isolated containers to which only you have access • We can run those containers for you using shared resources or dedicated resources • You pay only for what you need: a fixed subscription or “pay as you go” pricing • FREE and COMPLETE for developers: no credit card required
- 35. 35 App-Cells Are TheBasic Unit Of RUN@cloud Usage 35 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All rights reserved Java App (jar) CPU Java VM Java API Java Stack Java Managed Memory (Heap) Other Java Memory Non-Java Memory Java Class Structures Your app can deploy in as little as one app-cell. A single app-cell provides 128 Mb of memory and 1/8 of an AWS EC2 Compute Unit * * Amazon EC2 Compute Unit
- 36. 36 Use App-Cells ToSuit Your Apps 36 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All rights reserved Java Stack Java Managed Memory (Heap) Other Java Memory Non-Java Memory Java Class Structures Java Stack Java Managed Memory (Heap) Other Java Memory Non-Java Memory Java Class Structures Java Stack Java Managed Memory (Heap) Other Java Memory Non-Java Memory Java Class Structures Java Stack Java Managed Memory (Heap) Other Java Memory Non-Java Memory Java Class Structures Four app- cells can support four Java apps, or one Java app, using a total of 512Mb memory, for the same cost. Java Stack Java Managed Memory (Heap) Other Java Memory Non-Java Memory Java Class Structures
- 37. 37 App-Cells Are ChargedBy the Hour Example: Growing Production Usage Over A Month 37 ©2013 CloudBees, Inc. All rights reserved 1 app-cell using Tomcat on 1 instance for 8 days, 24 hr/day 4 app-cells using Tomcat on 1 instance for 8 days, 24 hr/day 8 app-cells using Tomcat on 5 instances for 14 days, 24 hr/day One month (192 app-cell-hr + 768 app-cell-hr + 2688 app-cell-hr) * $0.019/app-cell-hr = $69.31 for the month
- 38. 38 • Register onCloudBees.com, it is free and complete: – Deploy your app in the cloud! – Store your data – Do your build & test in the cloud • Jenkins as a Service • Repositories: Git, SVN, Maven/DAV • Eclipse plugin – Free program for FOSS projects https://grandcentral.cloudbees.com/account/signup Try it for Yourself ©2012 CloudBees, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Editor's Notes
- #20 The way you use ClickStarts and ClickStacks follows what is probably a familiar model. We host them in open source form on a Github-based CloudBees community site. You can fork them, and if you find a way to improve them, submit a pull request to us. Communities like Play and Scala are already doing this, but creating their own galleries of community-managed ClickStarts. And as I was saying, I think you will see customers of ours and SIs like you create brand-new ClickStarts and ClickStacks for use internally, to get new employees up to speed quicker, and to capture standards.
- #24 CloudBees Services Used: RUN@cloudEcosystem Services: New RelicLose It! Delivers a Scalable and Compelling Weight Loss Experience Watch what you eat. It’s a core tenet of successful weight loss and weight management programs. Here’s another: there is power in numbers. The Lose It! web application, iPhone app and Android app have enabled users to take advantage of both of these principles to lose more than 10 million pounds collectively, with the average user dropping more than 12 pounds. “Tracking what you eat is a validated way to lose weight, but adding a social component—peer support—improves motivation and the efficacy of tracking,” explains Charles Teague, CEO of FitNow, the start-up company that developed Lose It! “When people form small support groups, they are more apt to stick with a diet program and succeed— and Lose It! helps them do just that.”FitNow decided early on to capitalize on their expertise and organizational knowledge by developing and delivering a great application to help people lose weight and eat healthier. For a five-person start-up, allocating resources and incurring overhead to manage day-to-day infrastructure needs was simply not viewed as a priority. Instead the company wanted to distinguish itself in a crowded software application market by offering a high quality application. “Our operations strategy is to leverage third parties for infrastructure and associated maintenance,” says Teague. “Our business strategy is to provide a great consumer experience that differentiates us, and that’s where we want to focus our resources. We do not want to invest in infrastructure—we just want it to be there.”FitNow executes its operations and business strategies for Lose It! with the CloudBees RUN@cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. “Thanks to CloudBees, we have managed to avoid hiring a full-time systems administrator to support what would be equivalent to 25 in-house servers,” notes Teague. “We have lower infrastructure maintenance costs and higher productivity because we have access to the computing resources we need, when we need them.”Challenge: Preparing for Unknown DemandWhen FitNow was ready to release the web version of Lose It! with social networking features, the company had no way of accurately predicting user demand, and thus no concrete way of planning how many servers they would need to meet that demand. “We could not predict how successful the application would be, so we didn’t know if we would need three servers or 53 on the day it launched,” says Teague. Infrastructure planning was further hampered by the seasonal nature of interest in weight loss programs, which typically subsides during the holidays but increases in January and at the beginning of summer. Overestimating demand and purchasing servers to provide the expected capacity would be a costly mistake, but so too would underestimating demand and not having enough capacity. It was clear that Lose It! would benefit from a cloud deployment that would enable rapid scaling to match demand.FitNow had made the decision to develop both the front end and the back end of the Lose It! application in Java. “We targeted Java because of its maturity, performance and overall robustness. We also wanted to use Google Web Toolkit on the front end – it is a good tool for creating really great client web experiences. With Java, we were also confident that the back end would live up to our performance, stability and code quality expectations,” explains Teague. The developers needed a solution that would enable them to make the most of Java, the cloud and PaaS deployment. This, in turn, would let Lose It! focus on delivering a great application, instead of dealing with infrastructure and deployment headaches. Teague and his team considered a number of potential solutions, but found that many lacked the automation, transparency and flexibility they wanted—including the ability to custom tune application servers and other aspects of the deployment environment as needed.A Flexible and Scalable SolutionFitNow deployed Lose It! to the cloud using RUN@cloud. All of the servers for the application, including application servers, replicated database servers and cache servers are running on RUN@cloud.The CloudBees infrastructure for Lose It! handles thousands of writes per minute and tens of thousands of reads per minute. “Lose It! is a high volume site. We’re seeing volumes as high as 25,000 transactions per minute and RUN@cloud is handling it all 24/7,” says Teague.When the development team wants to share a test version of the Lose It! website, they can instantly spin up a new server in the cloud. The ability to spin servers up and down as needed in a variety of pre-production states streamlines the development and testing process.Deployment has been streamlined as well. “We deploy once a week on average, though with major releases, it may be multiple times per day. We can do this without worry because it costs next tonothing with RUN@cloud,” says Teague.For FitNow, RUN@cloud has provided a vital layer between Lose It! and Amazon’s Infrastructure asa Service (IaaS) offerings. Teague notes that CloudBees takes care of details that few organizationshave the time or experience to delve into. “For example, I probably wouldn’t have had block stores indifferent isolation zones like CloudBees automatically did for us, thinking that there would never be ablock store problem. When Amazon went down last year, they had a major problem with one isolationzone on the Amazon block store. Siteslike ours which were across multiple zones - with data replicated,were able to restore service quickly and without any data loss,” he explains.FitNow gets real-time visibility into Lose It! application performance with the New Relic Software as aService (SaaS) solution. A part of the CloudBees Ecosystem, the New Relic service enables FitNow totrack server performance and analytics, as well as analyze requests to see how the front end, applicationand network are contributing to response times. FitNow can use this information to tune applicationservers in the cloud when necessary.ResultsDeployment in minutes, not weeks. “When deployment gets as easy as it does with CloudBees, itchanges the way you think about development,” says Teague. “At othercompanies I’ve worked for,deployment was a two-week process. Fixing any bug, even if it took a minute to write code, took twoweeks, so you had to be extremely careful on theproduction server. With RUN@cloud that same processnow takes us five minutes. We can address bugs and performance bottlenecks in minutes, which enablesus to continuously improve the quality of Lose It!”Reliable, high-volume transactions with no administration overhead. “Our application on RUN@cloud is handling more than a million simultaneous users and tens of thousands of transactions perminute—all with no systems administrators. That alone is saving us more than $100,000 per year,” saysTeague. “We are seeing three nines (99.9%) for up-time on the equivalent of 25 dedicated servers, with ahardware IT budget of zero.”Increased focus on core differentiators. “To deliver the Lose It! web application we needed scalability.RUN@cloud was a great fit, because it gave us a flexible, scalable solution with low entry cost,” says Teague.“Off-loading the technical back-end work to CloudBees enabled our team to direct all their efforts towardsone objective—creating a compelling, innovative user experience that will help people lose weight.”For more information about Lose It!http://www.loseit.com
- #32 Let’s take a really concrete use case that is driving a lot of new application development today – mobile – and take a look at how the CloudBees PaaS delivers all the tools you need to provide a complete solution. Developers will likely be working on a local machine, often testing locally with a very limited set of devices. They cut code, run unit and device tests, and commit locally. When they’re ready, they push their work to a shared repository. The push kicks off a build and a larger, matrixed and pipelined set of builds. These might include functional and integration tests, or long running tests to track performance regressions and device-specific gesture-driven tests.