The Cloud Foundry roadmap outlines a vision for an open-source PaaS with a thriving ecosystem, focusing on continuous delivery, developer-friendly commands, and a robust service broker architecture. Key features include instant dynamic routing, operational benefits for application deployment, and support for various application types and frameworks. The document also discusses ongoing enhancements in application security, metrics integration, and the management of multi-tenant environments.

1. Cloud Foundry Roadmap and Vision
James Bayer
Cloud Foundry Product Team
@jambay

2. MISSION AND VISION

3. • 34 member companies
• Will result in more …
– Contributors
– Communication
– Coordination
• Evolving development process for more
participation while continuing the fast momentum
Cloud Foundry Foundation

4. • Global industry standard and scale
• Open Source PaaS
• Thriving ecosystem
• Continuous delivery
• Agile experience for contributors
• Cloud-native apps and software
Mission Statement Key Phrases

5. Cloud Foundry Vision
• Instant Dynamic Routing
• Log Streams & Aggregation
• Metrics and Telemetry
• Access Controls & Policy
• 4 Layers of High Availability
• App-Instance
• Availability Zone
• Process
• Virtual Machine
Operational Benefits for each
Application
Deploy, Operate Update, Scale Platform on Any IaaS
….and more
Built-in and Ecosystem
Services
Extensible Service Broker
Architecture
• Auto-detect frameworks
• “Push and it works”
• .WAR
• Dockerfile
• .NET
• Simple service binding
• Agile micro-services
Simple, Developer Friendly
Commands & API
Extensible Framework
“Buildpack” Architecture
• RDBMS (MySQL/Maria HA)
• Blob (RiakCS)
• Notifications
• User-Provided Services
• Services Ecosystem (Pivotal,
Bluemix, Logsearch.io, OSS)

6. • Enterprise
– Secure, Scalable, and Reliable
• Portable
– Run on any IaaS - Apps and Services are portable
• Open …
– Open Source
– Open Governance
– Open for Extension
Core Platform Attributes

7. ROADMAP

8. Warning:
Agile Roadmaps have a shelf life
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Days / Weeks
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9. Open Proposals and Backlogs
Step 1
Step 2

10. • Applications
• Services
• Platform
Key Areas
Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime
Cloud Foundry Services
Cloud Foundry BOSH

11. Non-Goals For Now
• Multi-region - features baked directly into the CF
API and Management
– Active/Active
– Cloud Bursting
– See Cloud Credo blog on Comic Relief
• Designing for legacy apps

12. • 12 factor Linux apps current target
– Java, Ruby, Node.js, Go, Python and PHP
• Users want more
– Dockerfile support for apps
– .NET on Windows stack
– Persistent file system option for apps
• E.g. Active State Stackato FSaaS using ssh-fs
Application Types

13. • Policy
• Routing
• App Runtime
• Logs, Metrics and Telemetry
• Identity and Security
Application Feature Areas

14. • Outbound Access Policy (in progress)
– Application Security Groups applied to App Containers
• Placement Pools
– Placing apps on a pool of system components for either network
& resource isolation or capability reasons
• Buildpack Policy scoped to Organizations
• Inbound Access Policy
– Router enforcement
• Long-term RFE – Tags / Values for CF Models
Application Policy

15. • A/B app routing % controlled via API
– Sticky attribute for routes
• CF Route custom maintenance / error pages
• CF Route access authorization policy
• Shared routing table (etcd instead of NATS for example)
• Long-term RFEs
– Static Route Option – no heart beats required
– SNI for Multiple SSL Certificate Management
– Multiple routable ports per app
– Inbound TCP - likely requires routing aaS per tenant
– SSL to Apps
Routing

16. • Diego Project
• Zero-downtime and Near-Zero downtime deploys
• App Processes from one codebase (web, worker, etc)
• Dockerfile push
• .NET Buildpack / Windows Stack via Iron Foundry
• Ongoing customizable App Healthchecks
• SSH access to App Containers
• Lifecycle hooks for SCM/CI/Others
Application Runtime

17. Application Lifecycle

18. • Loggregator was a major leap forward
• Use Loggregator for system logs
• Add app/system metrics to the transport
• Pluggable sources and destinations
Logs and Metrics

19. Logs and Metrics
End State
• Multitenant
• System and Apps
• Metrics, Logs, Telemetry
• Pluggable Inputs
• Pluggable Outputs

20. Metrics in the Logs Prototype

21. Metrics Pluggable Output Prototype

22. • LDAP/AD Groups mapped to OAuth Scopes
• Deeper OpenStack Keystone Integration
• Audit trail for all APIs
• Long-term Considerations
– Orgs/Spaces to UAA?
– Authorizations
– Custom Roles with Permission Mappings
Identity and Security

23. • Sample v2 Service Broker (Github repo aaS)
• Database cleanup tool for deleted brokers
• Migration path for v1->v2 brokers
• Service Dashboard SSO
• Service Usage Events
• Blob Service (s3 compatible RiakCS)
Services 2014 Review

24. • MariaDB with Galera HA
• Notification API and Service Broker
• Lifecycle – change plan
• Async APIs
• Service Audit Events
• Custom Metering
• Service ACLs with Public/Private Plans scoped to Orgs/Spaces
• Custom Plan Parameters
• Blob Service (RiakCS, s3, SWIFT)
Services Roadmap

25. • Flexible Versioning
• Bring your own CPI
• SDN Awareness
• Simplify the UX
• Shared System Infrastructure
– Process Runtime - Evaluate Diego/Docker for packaging / running
– Blob – both BOSH and Runtime need blob storage
– Databases
– Logs, Metrics and Telemetry
– Notifications
• Backup and Restore of Deployments
BOSH

26. • Applications – Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime
• Services – Cloud Foundry Services
• Platform – Cloud Foundry BOSH
Key Areas

27. Cloud Foundry Roadmap and Vision
James Bayer
Cloud Foundry Product Team
@jambay