These slides were presented at the Cloud Technical University 2017 in Madrid. Businesses are transforming their enterprise IT infrastructure to run in the Cloud. This doesn't have to be a simple lift and shift, it promotes self­service practices and new automated deployment and management techniques. This session will explain the many possibilities and techniques that are available to run MQ in such environments, whether you're looking to move to a public or private cloud, such as Bluemix, Azure, AWS, OpenStack or Docker environments.

1. IBM Cloud Technical University 2016
25 – 28 October 2016|Madrid, Spain
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IBM MQ in the Cloud
Rob Parker, MQ Ecosystem

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Agenda
• Introduction
• Self-Service
• Virtual Servers
• Containers

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Everyone’s moving to the cloud

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There is a lot of choice of cloud (and it’s
growing!)

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IBM MQ on the cloud
•Enterprise applications are expanding beyond the
datacentre and asynchronous enterprise messaging is
the easiest and most efficient way to bridge between
those applications in globally distributed cloud
datacentres.
• MQ offerings available on popular public cloud
platforms
• E.g. Pure Application on Softlayer, Azure, AWS
• Monthly or hourly license options for MQ are available in some
cloud environments
• Or bring your own licence
– Or build your own image and deploy to the cloud of your
choice

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Messaging in the cloud
Digital IT Enterprise IT
Message Hub
(Based on Apache Kafka)
MQ Light API
MQ Light API
Enterprise Messaging & Integration
MQ ExplorerMQ ClientMQ Light API
Kafka API REST API IBM MQ Appliance
Bluemix
Public
Bluemix
Dedicated
Bluemix Local
IBM MQ
Cloud
On-Prem
IBM Message
Connect
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Why Messaging in the cloud?
• Offloading time consuming processing
– Applications can focus on application logic
– They simply create message and send, no thought on routing or
intermediary handling
• Smoothing variations in system load
• Loose coupling
– No need to focus on who is putting or consuming messages
– Can be one or more publishers & subscribers.
• Resilience
– When applications are started or ended messages remain
– End of an application does not mean loss of work.

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Why IBM MQ?
• Message delivery assurance
– persistent (Assured arrival)
– Will be processed only once (even if duplicate messages)
• Application simplification
– MQ handles all processing and tracking of messages
• Transactions
– Co-ordination with Databases
– Transactional messaging
• Interoperability with existing infrastructure and products
– Can instantly link with existing IBM MQ infrastructure
– Works with range of IBM and third party products

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Self Service

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Self service
• Who is this ‘self’?
– Typically the application owning teams
– But could be the administration team
• Scope of self service?
– Development environments
– Test systems
– Production environments
• Extent of what to self serve?
– Simple provisioning of queues?
– Provisioning of whole queue managers and architectures?

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Self service tooling
• From one point of view MQ’s “self service portal” is simply its
traditional administrative tooling
– I.e. MQ Explorer, runmqsc
– This provides remote access to MQ configuration, with per-
user/group authorisation for visibility and modification.
• However…
– You can’t expect your users to know all there is to know about
MQ configuration
– You probably only want to expose a subset of capabilities
– MQ is not the centre of the universe! You’ll need to coordinate
MQ resources with the other components in the solution anyway

13. • From that point of view, MQ doesn’t have self service
tooling
• And as no off the shelf solution will 100% match your
corporation’s requirements you’ll need to build/customise
your own
– And many have built such tooling over the years
• Instead, MQ provides the interfaces to make using these
possible…
Self service tooling

14. • UrbanCode orchestrates and automates the
deployment of applications and middleware
configurations into development, test and
production environments.
• Coordinates deployments across multiple
machines.
• MQ plugin for UrbanCode provides automations
for off the peg or customised deployments of
UrbanCode artefacts
• Queue manager creation
• Queues, channels, topics, etc.
• Custom mqsc scripts
• …
See the MQ as-a-service redpaper for details
IBM UrbanCode Deploy

15. • Experimental IBM MQ cookbook
• Demonstrates idempotent installation on
MQ installation on Linux
• Includes queue manager creation and
start
• More to be added
• Feedback very welcome
https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-chef
IBM MQ Chef Cookbook

16. • Limit the MQ options available to
users as much as possible
– This will depend on the expected
MQ skill level of users
– Minimise MQ resources and
attributes exposed to the users
– Ideally abstract the underlying MQ
resources from the users
• Use a portal to act as an
intermediary
– Do not grant your users MQ
administrator rights, the portal is the
MQ administrator
• Log all changes
– Either using the portal
– Or (and) with MQ configuration events
• Integrate resources direct into the
monitoring system
– When provisioning systems, enable
background monitoring as standard
Self-service portal considerations

17. • IBM runs a fully managed messaging
service for users in Bluemix
• Providing applications access to
asynchronous messaging using the
MQ Light API, Kafka API, etc
The Message Hub Service in IBM
Bluemix

18. Example of Message Hub usage
Application Application

19. Example of Message Hub usage
Application ApplicationProduct Topic

20. Example of Message Hub usage
Application ApplicationProduct Topic
Application
Product 2 Topic

21. Example of Message Hub usage
Application
Application
ApplicationProduct Topic
Product 2 Topic

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Virtual Servers

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Virtual Servers
Virtual Servers have different names:
Virtual Servers – Deprecated Nov 2016
EC2 Instance
Server
Watch this
space!

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Virtual Servers
• Virtual Servers are virtual machines in the cloud
• Select OS/Image
• Select CPUs
• Select Memory
• Select Disk Size
• Most Clouds have an API that can be used to
automatically provision virtual servers.
• This can be interacted manually or via Tool.

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MQ + Virtual Servers
• Does MQ require special settings to work on a
cloud virtual server?
• No!
• But the underlying OS must meet the minimum
system requirements.

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Why MQ + Virtual Servers?
• Don’t have to manage Hardware
• Also quick to get new machine
• Easy to create new Virtual Server/Queue Manager
• Can use orchestration tools
• Auto Scaling groups + Load Balancers

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Example of MQ + Virtual Servers
MQ
Load Balancer
40%
Auto-Scaling Group Group
Manager

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Example of MQ + Virtual Servers
MQ
Load Balancer
90%
Auto-Scaling Group
MQ
40%40%
Group
Manager

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Example of MQ + Virtual Servers
MQ
Load Balancer
90%
Auto-Scaling Group
MQ
60%60% 90%
MQ
60%
Group
Manager

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Example of MQ + Virtual Servers
MQ
Load Balancer
Auto-Scaling Group
MQ
20%
MQ
20%20%30% 30%
Group
Manager

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Containers

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Containers
• Containers provide a similar environment to a VM
but lighter in weight
– A virtual machine provides an abstraction of the
physical hardware
– A container abstracts the OS level, typically at the
user level
• Linux containers
– Containers all share the same OS kernel
– Images are constructed from layered filesystems
– Containers isolate applications from each other and
the underlying infrastructure
Operating system
Hypervisor
Virtual machine
Operating
system
Bins / libs
App App
Virtual machines
Virtual machine
Operating
system
Bins / libs
App App
Operating system
Container
Bins / libs
App App
Container
App App
Bins / libs
Container
App App
Containers
Container
App App

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• Each container/process only sees its own process(es)
• Each container/process only sees its own filesystem
• Fast startup time – just the time to start a process, setup networks, etc
• Better resource utilization – can fit far more containers
than VMs into a host
Benefits of Containers

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• Tooling to manage containers
– Containers are older than Docker
– Docker just made them easy to use
• Docker creates and manages the lifecycle of
containers
– Setup filesystem
– Setup networks
– Setup volumes
– CRUD container
• Create: start new process telling OS to run it in isolation
(unique namespaces, cgroups)
What is Docker?

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MQ in Docker
• MQ 8.0.0.4+ supported to run inside a
Docker image.
Details: https://ibm.biz/mqdocker
• IBM samples for customizing and building
your own Docker images
– Best practice guidance
– Runs an MQ queue manager inside a container, isolated
from the rest of your system

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• Lightweight containers for running MQ
• Predictable and standardized units for deploying MQ
– Can use the same image to make multiple Queue Managers
• Each setup with the same configuration script
• Process, resource and dependency isolation
Why MQ + Docker

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• Docker also supports shared file systems
– Can be used for HA/DR of containers
MQ + Docker + HA example
MQ
(Active Pair)
MQ
(Passive Pair)
NFS
File System

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MQ + Docker + HA example
MQ
NFS
File System
Orchestration tool(s)
MQ

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Examples & Conclusion

42. MQ
NFS
File System
MQ
The previous examples…
MQ
Load Balancer
Auto-Scaling Group
MQ
Group
Manager

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Where can i find examples?
• Hopefully you’ve seen that IBM MQ can work with
most cloud providers
• But where can you find examples of IBM MQ on
the cloud?

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Deploying IBM MQ in the cloud
– The ways in which MQ is deployed and managed and where it is installed into is continually changing
Sample cookbook for installing and
configuring MQ using Chef
https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-chef
Building an MQ OpenStack image
and managing it using Heat
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community
/blogs/messaging/entry/mq_openstack_part1_pa
cker
Designing a self service and
as-a-service MQ system
http://ibm.biz/mqaas_red
Setting up MQ on Azure for HA
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/communit
y/blogs/messaging/entry/How_to_setup_IBM_M
Q_Multi_instance_queue_manager_with_Micros
oft_Azure_File_Service
Deploying MQ and managing MQ
in AWS
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/commu
nity/blogs/messaging/entry/mq_aws_basic
Running MQ in Docker is supported
for production use
https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-docker

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MQ Ecosystem team
• We are very interested to hear what your
experiences with messaging in cloud are:
• Are you trying to:
• Implement Messaging in Cloud?
• Move messaging to Cloud?
• What cloud do you use?
• Are you doing:
• Cloud to Cloud?
• Cloud to On-Prem?

46. Where can I get more information about IBM MQ?
IBM Messaging developerWorks
developer.ibm.com/messaging
IBM Messaging Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/IBMmessagingMedia
LinkedIn
Ibm.biz/ibmmessaging
Twitter
@IBMMessaging
IBM MQ Facebook
Facebook.com/IBM-MQ-8304628654/
Blog posts
tagged with
“cloud”

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http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMXWebX
• IBM Digital Experience Developer
http://developer.ibm.com/digexp
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https://greenhouse.lotus.com/catalog/

48. Rob Parker
Thank you very much.
IBM
IBM MQ Ecosystem
parrobe@uk.ibm.com
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