This document summarizes Infor's cloud strategy and use of automation tools like Faro. Key points: - Infor is a large enterprise software company that offers industry-specific cloud suites on AWS. - It aims to deploy its diverse application portfolio to the cloud using infrastructure as code and application lifecycle automation tools like Faro. - Faro is Infor's deployment framework that allows packaging, parameterization and automated deployment of applications using concepts from DevOps. This replaces previous manual processes.

1. © 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
David Lowry, Sr. Cloud Manager, Infor
Amul Merchant, VP, Cloud Architecture and Services, Infor Global
November 2016
DEV319
Automating Cloud Management
and Deployment for a Diverse
Enterprise Application Portfolio

2. Presenters
Amul Merchant
Vice President, Cloud Architecture and Services
David Lowry
Sr. Cloud Manager, Cloud Architecture and Services

3. Introduction to Infor and its cloud strategy

4. The world’s first & largest industry cloud company
Infor – cloud experts for over a decade of experience with point solutions HCM, CRM, EAM, XM
Industry CloudSuites introduced in 2014

5. Charles Phillips, Infor CEO at 2014 Amazon AWS
Conference
Friends don’t let friends
build data centers.”“
$3B
revenue
14,000
employees
3rd largest
business applications company
and private tech company
200+
countries and
territories
About Infor
100,000
customers globally
Infor and AWS
Strategic Partners

6. Infor Industry CloudSuites
Pre-integrated
Industry Solutions

7. Core CloudSuite A&D
Micro-vertical Analytics
Implementation
Accelerator
Industry business processes
pre-configured database & solution
Regulatory Compliance
Warehouse Mobility
Program Cost Ledger
Time Track
Quality Statistical Process Control
CloudSuiteA&D ERP LN
Infor Ming.le™
Comprehensive solution for social
collaboration, process improvement and
contextual analytics

8. 8Copyright © 2015. Infor. All Rights Reserved. www.infor.comInfor Confidential
Infor Xi Platform
Collaboration Process
integration
Security API gatewayExtensibility DocumentsAnalytics Reporting
Infor Ming.le
Homepages
Mashups
Infor
Ming.le
Infor
Federation
Services
Infor
ION
Infor
ION API
Infor Bi
Infor
Skyvault
Infor
Document
Mgt.
Infor
Local.ly
Infor
SoHo
UX

9. Application Deployment/Mgmt as Code
Infrastructure as Code
Application Lifecycle Automation
Infor Cloud
Design Tenets
Benefits include – Efficiency, Repeatability, Documentation, Worldwide Reusability

10. Infor Cloud architecture

11. Cloud 2.0 requirements
Evaluating products readiness for cloud
Multi-tenancy Scalability High availability ION/Web
integrations
Automatic scaling Zero footprint
No local device
dependency
Successful
security tests
Supports health
check monitors
No source code
changes
Meets
patching/upgrade
requirements

12. Stateless
applications
Open source
technology
Single Instance
deployments
Minimized 3P
products
Cloud 3.0 requirements
Evaluating products readiness for cloud

13. s
s
s
EAM XM HCM LMS HRSD LTM MRMTS SCM Financials Supplier Exchange Automotive ExchangeLNFactory Track
Support CertificationTrainingProfessional Services
Technology Partners Channel Partners
Regions Content delivery POPsAvailability Zones
Infor Industry CloudSuites
Auto Corporate Hospitality HCM HealthcareA&D Business Rhythm Fashion F&B Equipment Distribution Public Sector
EC2 Auto Scaling Route 53 EBS RDS SQS CloudFormation CloudWatch WorkSpaces
ELB VPC S3 Amazon Glacier DynamoDB CloudTrail CloudHSM Lambda CodeDeploy
Database Shared Storage Document Storage Batch Admin Access Logging File Transfer Monitoring
ION IFS Printing Portal d/EPM/BI/BV Local.ly Motion Faro
AWS Services
Infor Base Services
Infor Application Services
M3

14. Infor Cloud DevOps

15. Infor DevOps Principles
• Automate end-to-end
• Use AWS services where ever possible
• MVP first, then expand

16. Infor DevOps Toolset
Faro Windsor Hanover AWS Toolbox

17. Faro

18. What is Faro?
• Infor’s deployment framework
• Borrows concepts from successful paradigms
• Partly CLI, partly web service

19. Why Faro?
• Packaging
• Parameters

20. Packaging

21. Before Faro…

22. Parameters
• Account data
• IAM profiles
• Subnet IDs
• Availability Zones
• Security Groups IDs
• AMI IDs
• Key IDs
• AD settings
• Agent API keys
• App parameters

23. Before Faro…

24. Faro Process

25. Build

26. Deckspec
format_version: 2016-08-01
name: reference-spec
description: A deckspec to provide documentation.
provides:
name: append-install
StringParameter:
description: Example string parameter
example: exampleValue
validator_regex: "^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$”
default: "value”
…

27. Includes

28. Publish

29. Repository Internals

30. Deploy

31. Deploy

32. Dependencies

33. KMS

34. Future
• Updating legacy automation
• Eliminating manual steps
• Entire environment deployments
• Reduce deployment timeframes

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