A session in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live, Berlin. As IT strives to become Fast IT, application architectures are undergoing fundamental disruption to enable faster development to deployment lifecycles. As part of this trend, the number of applications being created using microservices architectures and container technologies like Docker is exploding. This new "cloud native" framework makes deployments on-prem or public cloud seamless. In this session, we will look at these evolving trends and how several open source technologies have converged to provide enterprises the ability to innovate at unprecedented levels.

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February 15 - 19, 2016 • Berlin, Germany

2. Enabling Fast IT using
Containers, Microservices
and DevOps Model
Balaji Sivasubramanian, Director, Product Management, Open
Source Solutions

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• Introduction – Fast IT
• Containers Eco-System and Use Cases
• Contiv – Policy Based Infrastructure for Containerized Applications
• Challenges with Fast IT adoptions
• Conclusion
Agenda
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Efficiency
Speed
IT Transformation: The Tale of Two ITs

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Containers Eco-System
and Use Cases
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Containers is a popular technology and is being
rapidly adopted in the market
• 5x user growth (to ~8% of customers)
• Docker runs on 6% of monitored hosts from
near zero earlier this year
• Container adoption is higher in larger
companies
• Users triple number of containers in 3
months
Source: Datadog survey (7000 customers)
• 2B Docker Hub Pulls
• 20x growth in past year!
Docker Hub Usage Customer adoption / survey
Source: Docker Inc

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Even with such a tremendous growth, the potential
for further adoption is still enormous and real
32%
14%
8%
8%
20%
35%
12%
10%
11%
36% 19%
Ansible
Salt
Chef
Puppet
3%
18%
14%
49%
55%
52%
20%
Plan to use
Use today26%
19%
13%
11%
5%
18%
20%
36%
10%
9%
11%
Salt
14%
Ansible
14%
3%
21%
49%
Puppet 39%
Chef 44%
% of Enterprises using: % of SMBs using:
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the cloud report

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Containers are the next evolution of datacenter
infrastructure technology
Virtualmachines
Containers
• A Linux container allows to run
multiple applications isolated from
one another on the same operating
system
• Docker automates the deployment
and portability of any application
and all dependencies within a
lightweight, editable, self-sufficient
container
• Containers have the potential to
disrupt and replace traditional
datacenter virtualization
PortabilityPackaging Performance
APP
- Image contains all
libraries needed for
application
- Easy to build, share,
update
- Unit of testing / distribution
- Near bare metal
performance
- Minimal overhead per
container
- Near zero “boot” time
- Move apps between
private clouds
- Shift workloads to/from
public cloud
- Easy to move through
CI/CD
What is a container?

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Containers bring benefits in the app development space
because of their portability and flexibility
• Agility in app development
• Application lifecycle management
• CI/CD and ease of deployment
• Improve business process
architecture using a composition
of services
• Cost reduction:
• Increase DC utilization / higher
density than virtual machines
• Reduce costs of virtualization
Developer
Version
control
Development Test Stage / Production
QA / QE
Sysadmin

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The ecosystem is made of many players and it is a
rapidly evolving eco-system
PaaS or Container
frameworks/Stacks
Operating system
Containers
orchestration
Container
registry
Container image
- Application
- Libraries
Container runtime
Configuration
management
CI/CD

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Contiv – Policy Based
Infrastructure for
Containerized
Applications
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The Status Quo
Variety of users: cars,
trucks, ambulances, buses,
pedestrians, two-wheelers,
etc.
No Policy: No Lights, No
Lanes, No Rules, No
Governance, No
Enforcement, Best Effort
Meskel
Square
[
Source:
Reddit.com
]
Status Quo: Deploying Applications on Shared Infrastructure

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Container Orchestration need ability to leverage
infrastructure differentiation better for Application
Performance, Security and Visibility.
Container
Stacks
Infrastructure
Unified
|
Integrated
|
Automated
Scheduling
|
Alloca@on
Visibility
Applica@on
Awareness
Infrastructure
Capabili@es
Nexus
2k-­‐9k
Contiv:
Making
Infrastructure/Solu7ons
Ideal
for
containers

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• Container industry is focused on
creating ability to define applications
through Docker Compose,
Kubernetes Pod definition etc.
• As applications move from
development to production, there is
need to able to define and enforce
infrastructure operational policies
• Contiv is creating industry thought
leadership around need for
infrastructure policies for
containerized applications in a
shared infrastructure
• Contiv provides framework and
implementation to address operation
intent for Infrastructure.
Contiv Addressing Enabling Infrastructure to Run
Production Containerized Applications Better

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• Agile - Increased speed of infrastructure provisioning
• Networking: network creation, endpoint reachability convergence security policies
instantiation
• Storage: Storage policies for volumes as they are instantiated
• Handling short lived containerized applications
• Scalable providing higher performance
• Support 10x scale (when compared to VMs) for network, compute, and storage entities
• Scale performance by leveraging underlying infra capabilities
• Predictable providing better reliability and easier to troubleshoot
• Enable efficient resource utilization via enforce operational policies on Infrastructure
• Enable application level visibility
Contiv – Open Source Project focused on Policy
Based Infrastructure for Containerized Applications

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• Contiv.io is an open-source project that creates a
policy framework in different domains of containers
• Network Policies: Policies for Application Security,
Prioritization, and Network Resource Allocation
• Network Services for Apps (Virtual or Physical
Service appliances)
• Analytics/Diagnostics
• Integrates with Cisco ACI, Nexus, and UCS
Solutions
• Ecosystem: Docker, Kubernetes
• Status: Beta
Contiv Networking provides policy-rich container
networking that integrates with Cisco Nexus and ACI
Application Composition
+
Policy Intent
Node 1 Node2 Node-n
Contiv Master
Docker | Kubernetes |
Mesos Plugin Agents

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• Contiv Storage is an open-source policy framework
for container storage
• Storage Policies:
• Allocation
• Replication
• Snapshots
• Persistency
• IOPs Rate Limiting
• Multi-tenant
• File System Types, Storage Types
• Integrates with Ceph/NFS and Cisco UCS Solutions
• Ecosystem: Docker, Kubernetes
• Status: Beta/PoC
Contiv Storage provides policy-rich container storage
that leverages Ceph/NFS underneath
Application Composition
+
Storage Policy Intent
Node 1 Node2 Node-n
Contiv Master
Docker | Kubernetes |
Volume Plugin Agents

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Where does Contiv Fit in the Container Stack ?
Optimized Infrastructure/ Cisco Integrated Infrastructure
Cisco Hardware: UCS Compute, Nexus 9k, ACI
Ops Orchestration/PaaS (Provides Roles/Multi-tenancy/Visibility/GUI), Contiv Plugins
Container Optimized OS
Container Cluster Scheduler | Contiv Cluster-wide Intent Manager
Container Image
Store
Container Runtime (Docker, etc.)
Contiv Networking/Volume Agents
Developer
DevOps
SysAdmin
Host-1 Host-n

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Contiv– Best Choice for Enterprise Containerized
Application Deployments
• Best integration with existing infrastructure install-base, any network
topology
• No topology/connectivity/feature changes to get started with containers
• Best leverage of infrastructure hardware (UCS, Nexus)
• Integrated with Cisco ACI for container applications for highly scalable solutions
• Consistent behavior with variety of workloads (VM, Container, Bare-metal)
• Native visibility of container workloads in network
• Value added features
• Scalable Policies based approach, Multi-tenancy with telemetry and fully
automated cluster maintenance
• Feature Rich Integration with Container eco-system - Docker, Kubernetes/
Mesos

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Challenges in Adoption
Fast IT
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§ Integration and testing
components
§ Consistency of
deployments
§ Achieve fast payback
and ROI
§ Future agility and
choice
§ Avoid vendor lock-in
§ Stable platforms/Lack of
Maturity
§ Supportable
configurations
§ Cost-efficient scale-out
§ Access to skilled staff
Business Challenges Around Fast IT
Speed of Deployment Risk Management Retain Flexibility

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§ Most projects/
distributions are
community supported
§ No single point of contact
§ Which distribution/
project/tools?
§ Which deployment
system?
§ Many deployment
methods
§ Many package / update
systems
§ Best practices on specific
architectures?
IT Challenges Around Fast IT
Support Deployment Complexity

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Build Your Own
As a Service
On-Prem or in the Cloud
Ownership Customer Cloud Providers
Location On-Prem Cloud Providers
Management Customer xaas Providers Cloud Providers
BUYBUILD
Cloud Managed Public CloudIT Operated
Choose the Right Consumption Model for Your
Deployments

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• Project Mantl integrates different components of a
container infrastructure (orchestration, etc.) to make it
simple to deploy, also in multi DC environments
• Project Shipped integrates different tools to make it
easy for developers to deploy applications on an
agnostic platform
• Ecosystem: Mesosphere, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry
(open-source), OpenShift, Docker
• Contiv will provide infrastructure differentiation for
Shipped/Mantl
Shipped aims at creating an agnostic container
experience for developers and with Contiv, provides
infrastructure differentiation

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Conclusion
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• Containers and Micro services based applicaton
architecture will likely disrupt /replace traditional data
center virtualization
• Contiv provides tools necessary to maintain operational
policies in a containerized infrastructure.
• IT needs to evolve to embrace Fast IT
Conclusions
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Fast IT is Here
Disrupt or Be Disrupted

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