Habitat is amazing technology - but a new technology alone will not deliver business value. A technology is good for your business when it allows you to deliver stronger value in higher quantities at a faster velocity. For a business, much of the value comes in the software applications it produces - the application itself is what makes it money. Come hear how Habitat’s focus on the application as the unit of automation allows you to focus on the application itself and not worry about where it will run. Habitat also allows you to easily change where and what your application runs on. Your application and business needs will change over time, which means you need to be able to change your application at a very high velocity without being locked into one type of infrastructure or one vendor. Come witness how Habitat allows your applications to be infrastructure and platform agnostic - you focus on the application, Habitat takes care of packaging your software, exporting it, and running it wherever you need. Learn how you can deliver stronger value in higher quantities at a faster velocity without sacrificing stability.

1. Higher. Faster. Stronger.
Your Applications with Habitat
Nell Shamrell-Harrington
Principal Software Engineer, Habitat
Community Engineering Lead
@nellshamrell

2. Managers?

3. Managers?
Engineers?

4. Shiny new
technology!

5. Shiny new
technology!

6. The goal of technology is to
enable a business to be
more productive

7. “…productivity is the act of
bringing a company closer
to its goal.”
Eliyahu M. Goldratt “The Goal”

8. “Productivity is useless
unless you know what
your goal is”
Eliyahu M. Goldratt “The Goal”

9. “The goal of a
manufacturing organization
is to make money”
Eliyahu M. Goldratt “The Goal”

10. How do you know if a
technology will make your
business more productive?

11. A technology increases
productivity when it allows you to
deliver stronger value in higher
quantities at a faster velocity.

12. Habitat allows you to deliver
stronger value in higher
quantities at a faster velocity.

13. Nell Shamrell-Harrington
• Principal Software Engineer at Chef
• Community Engineering Lead
• Core Maintainer of Habitat
• Co-host Food Fight Show Podcast
• @nellshamrell

14. Have You Heard
of Habitat?

15. Have You Heard of Habitat?
• 2016 – “No, what is it?”

16. Have You Heard of Habitat?
• 2016 – “No, what is it?”
• 2017 – “Yes, what is it?”

17. Have You Heard of Habitat?
• 2016 – “No, what is it?”
• 2017 – “Yes, what is it?”
• 2018 – “Yes, tell me more!”

18. What is Habitat?
• A technology for packaging software

19. What is Habitat?
• A technology for packaging software
• A technology for running software

20. Why Habitat?

21. What does an Enterprise
look like today?

22. What Does an Enterprise Look Like Today?
• Hundreds or thousands of applications (both internally written and off the
shelf) that must be managed

23. What Does an Enterprise Look Like Today?
• Hundreds or thousands of applications (both internally written and off the shelf)
that must be managed
• Dependencies of these hundreds or thousands of applications also must
be managed

24. • Hundreds or thousands of applications (both internally written and off the shelf)
that must be managed
• Dependencies of these hundreds or thousands of applications also must be
managed
• Most of these applications are legacy apps
What Does an Enterprise Look Like Today?

25. A legacy application
is a critical business
application that
is long lived

26. Three Pains of Legacy Applications
• Painful to maintain application and its dependencies

27. Three Pains of Legacy Applications
• Painful to maintain application and its dependencies
• Painful to adapt application to new platforms

28. Three Pains of Legacy Applications
• Painful to maintain application and its dependencies
• Painful to adapt application to new platforms
• Painful to support old technology stacks

29. Business App 1
Legacy Applications
MS .NET 2.0
Windows 2008 R2
Business App 2
IBM WebSphere
Redhat Linux 5
Business App 3
Tomcat 6 / Java 7
Ubuntu Linux
12.04

30. Business App 1
Legacy Applications
MS .NET 2.0
Windows 2008 R2
Business App 2
IBM WebSphere
Redhat Linux 5
Business App 3
Tomcat 6 / Java 7
Ubuntu Linux
12.04
Business value is here

31. Business App 1
Legacy Applications
MS .NET 2.0
Windows 2008 R2
Business App 2
IBM WebSphere
Redhat Linux 5
Business App 3
Tomcat 6 / Java 7
Ubuntu Linux
12.04
Costly (and painful!) burden of support

32. What if….

33. Business App 1
Applications with Habitat
Business App 2 Business App 3
Keep this:

34. Business App 1
Applications with Habitat
MS .NET 2.0
Business App 2
IBM WebSphere
Business App 3
Tomcat 6 / Java 7
Keep this:
Bundle just as much is needed of this with the app in one package:

35. Business App 1
Applications with Habitat
MS .NET 2.0
Windows 2008 R2
Business App 2
IBM WebSphere
Redhat Linux 5
Business App 3
Tomcat 6 / Java 7
Ubuntu Linux
12.04
Keep this:
Bundle just as much is needed of this with the app in one package:
Eliminate or reduce dependency on this:

36. What does this give us?
Application Portability

37. Three Pains of Legacy Applications
• Painful to maintain application and its dependencies
• Painful to adapt application to new platforms
• Painful to support old technology stacks
Application Portability
Relieves this Pain

38. Application Portability Benefits
• Agnostic to operating system and operating system version (mostly)

39. Application Portability Benefits
• Agnostic to operating system and operating system version (mostly)
• Right size application to any infrastructure – regardless of where it ran
before

40. Application Portability
future proofs applications

41. Three Pains of Legacy Applications
• Painful to maintain application and its dependencies
• Painful to adapt application to new platforms
• Painful to support old technology stacks
Application Portability
Relieves this Pain too!

42. Make your applications
portable with Habitat

43. What is Habitat?
• A technology for packaging software
• A technology for running software

44. How do you package
software with Habitat?

45. Packaging Software with Habitat
Developer
creates
an app
(or has a
COTS app)

46. Packaging Software with Habitat
Developer
creates
an app
(or has a
COTS app)
plan.sh
Or
plan.ps1
Developer
creates
plan file

47. Packaging Software with Habitat
Developer
creates
an app
(or has a
COTS app)
plan.sh
Or
plan.ps1
Developer
creates
plan file
Builder
Habitat pull
Dependencies
From Builder

48. Packaging Software with Habitat
Developer
creates
an app
(or has a
COTS app)
plan.sh
Or
plan.ps1
Developer
creates
plan file
Builder
Habitat pull
Dependencies
From Builder
Habitat
packages app
and dependencies
in a HART artifact

49. Three Pains of Legacy Applications
• Painful to maintain application and its dependencies
• Painful to adapt application to new platforms
• Painful to support old technology stacks
Habitat relieves
this pain

50. Demo Time!
• Packaging Software With Habitat
• Uploading that package to the Builder Depot
Contoso University
(.NET app)

51. What’s a Builder Depot?

52. • Place to store Habitat artifacts where they can easily be accessed
What’s a Builder Depot?

53. • Place to store Habitat artifacts where they can easily be accessed
• There is both a Public Builder Depot and an On-Premises Builder Depot
What’s a Builder Depot?

54. • Place to store Habitat artifacts where they can easily be accessed
• There is both a Public Builder Depot and an On-Premises Builder Depot
• Public Builder Depot includes the Builder SaaS
What’s a Builder Depot?

55. Builder SaaS
https://bldr.habitat.sh

56. Builder SaaS

57. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app

58. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app
core/openssl
Depends on

59. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app
core/openssl
Updated with
Security patch
Depends on

60. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app
core/openssl
Package is
rebuilt
Depends on

61. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app
core/openssl
Dependencies
automatically
rebuilt
Depends on

62. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app
nshamrell/dep-1 nshamrell/dep-2
Depends on Depends on

63. Builder SaaS
nshamrell/my-app
nshamrell/dep-1 nshamrell/dep-2
Depends on Depends on
Dependencies of dependencies automatically rebuilt

64. • Stores both Windows and Linux artifacts
Builder SaaS

65. • Stores both Windows and Linux artifacts
• Currently only builds Linux artifacts (Windows builds are planned!)
Builder SaaS

66. • Stores both Windows and Linux artifacts
• Currently only builds Linux artifacts (Windows builds are planned!)
• Hosts the Habitat Core plans
Builder SaaS

67. What are the core plans?

68. Builder SaaS

69. Core Plans
• Package commonly used software
• From low level system libraries like glibc
• To database services like PostgreSQL
• To platforms like Wordpress
• And much more!

70. Core Plans
• Package commonly used software
• From low level system libraries like glibc
• To database services like PostgreSQL
• To platforms like Wordpress
• And much more!
• 616 Core Plans
• View on Builder (https://bldr.habitat.sh/#/origins/core/packages)
• View on Github (https://github.com/habitat-sh/core-plans)

71. Core Plans
• Package commonly used software
• From low level system libraries like glibc
• To database services like PostgreSQL
• To platforms like Wordpress
• And much more!
• 616 Core Plans
• View on Builder (https://bldr.habitat.sh/#/origins/core/packages)
• View on Github (https://github.com/habitat-sh/core-plans)
• Massive Community Engagement
• 575 pull requests in the past year
• Vast majority (>90%) were merged

72. How do you run
software with Habitat?

73. Running Software with Habitat
Place
to run
software

74. Running Software with Habitat
Pull HART
File from
Builder
Builder
Place
to run
software

75. Running Software with Habitat
Pull HART
File from
Builder
Builder
Place
to run
software
Habitat
Supervisor
Habitat
Starts
Habitat
Supervisor

76. Running Software with Habitat
Pull HART
File from
Builder
Builder
Place
to run
software
Habitat
Supervisor
Habitat
Starts
Habitat
Supervisor
Unpacks,
initializes,
and runs
packaged
software

77. Running Software with Habitat
Service
One Habitat package
running under one
Habitat Supervisor

78. Running Software with Habitat
Service
Multiple Habitat Services
Running the same
Habitat Package
Service
Service Service
Service Group

79. Running Software with Habitat
Service
Service Group
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service Group
Service
Service
Service
Service
Service Group
Service
Service
Service
Supervisor Ring
All Habitat Services
make up the
Supervisor Ring

80. No matter where an
application packaged with
Habitat is running, it’s
configuration is managed
the same way

81. SqlServer
Demo Time!
• Running HART packages
Contoso University
(.NET app)

82. How do you export
software with Habitat?

83. Exporting Software with Habitat
Place to run
software
Run
directly
HART
Package

84. Exporting Software with Habitat
HART
Package
Place to run
software
Run
directly
Docker
Kubernetes
Cloud Foundry
Many More!
Export to

85. Demo Time!
• Exporting to a Docker Container Image
• Running that Image with Docker
SqlServer
Contoso University
(.NET app)

86. Habitat Exporters
• Windows
• Docker container images (including Windows containers)
• Tar Archives
• More to come!

87. Habitat Exporters
• Windows
• Docker container images (including Windows containers)
• Tar Archives
• More to come!
• Linux
• Docker container images
• Application container images (rkt containers)
• Cloud Foundry images
• Kubernetes manifests
• Helm charts
• Tar Archives
• Mesos containers
• More to come!

88. Habitat does not compete
with Docker, Kubernetes,
Cloud Foundry, etc…

89. Habitat complements them
and makes it
easier to work with them

90. And switch between them

91. The goal of technology is to
enable a business to be
more productive in returning
business value

92. As what drives business value
changes, your applications
must also change

93. Along with the infrastructure
your applications run on

94. Habitat provides
Application Portability

95. Business App 1
Applications with Habitat
Business App 2 Business App 3
Focus Here

96. Business App 1
Applications with Habitat
MS .NET 2.0
Windows 2008 R2
Business App 2
IBM WebSphere
Redhat Linux 5
Business App 3
Tomcat 6 / Java 7
Ubuntu Linux
12.04
Habitat handles

97. Habitat allows you to deliver
stronger value in higher
quantities at a faster velocity.

98. Nell Shamrell-Harrington
• Principal Software Engineer at Chef
• Community Engineering Lead
• Core Maintainer of Habitat
• Co-host Food Fight Show Podcast
• @nellshamrell
Thank You!