IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk: Cloud Foundry Summit 2016, Frankfurt, Germany: The Future of Cloud Programming

Serverless and Event-driven Applications with Cloud
Foundry and OpenWhisk
Andrei Yurkevich (@yurkvch)
Chief Technology Officer
Andreas Nauerz (@AndreasNauerz)
Technical Product Manager

@altoros@yurkvch
WHAT WE DO
Altoros brings “software assembly lines” into organizations
through integration of solutions offered by the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.
TRAINING:
FOR OPERATORS
FOR DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPER
ADOPTION
CONSULTING
PROOF OF CONCEPT
& IMPLEMENTATION
APP DEVELOPMENT
& MICROSERVICES
2
POPULARPOPULAR
Delivered by partners:
Delivered by Altoros:

@altoros@yurkvch
WHO WE ARE
Altoros offices Delivery partner in APAC
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Minsk, BY
Oslo, NO
Sunnyvale, CA
(HQ)
Chicopee, MA
London, UK
Espoo, FI
Buenos Aires, AR
Santa Fe, AR
Tokyo, JP
Silkeborg, DK
Zurich, CH
Taby, SE

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We will tell you about…
● Why we need event-driven infrastructure

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● Requirements for event-driven infrastructure

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● Introducing OpenWhisk

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● OpenWhisk and CloudFoundry

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● OpenWhisk and CloudFoundry
● Demo

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Welcome to Industrial internet!

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How would you implement it?

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OK, let’s move step by step

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And if you want it to be HA?

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But if we don’t scale fast...
How much
does it cost?

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So what are the requirements?
● Invoke and scale as fast as possible
● Terminate after completion

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● Charge per compute used

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● Guaranteed message delivery
● Load balancing

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● Load balancing
● High availability
● Self-healing

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● Load balancing
● Self-healing
● Support of multiple
technologies
● Have possibility to launch other
microservices
● Write and read data from
multiple data sources

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● Load balancing
● Self-healing
● Support of multiple
technologies
● Have possibility to launch other
microservices
● Write and read data from
multiple data sources
● Abstract developers from the
infrastructure

Yorktown, NY
OpenWhisk in a nutshell
Raleigh, NCAustin, TX
Boeblingen, Germany
Serverless computing in general and OpenWhisk in particular is regarded an important effort 31

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„Event-action platform to execute code in response to events“
* whisk (v): to move nimbly and quickly (source: merriam-webster.com)

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„Event-action platform to execute code in response to events“
Delivered as open source & managed service on IBM Bluemix
* whisk (v): to move nimbly and quickly (source: merriam-webster.com)

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Serverless deployment & operations model

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Optimal utilization & granular pricing

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Scales on a per-request basis

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Flexible programming model
Supports higher-level programming constructs (e.g. sequencing)
Polyglot support

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Open (Apache 2) & open ecosystem
Open interface for event providers
Polyglot support
Leverages Docker, Kafka, Consul, …

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Open (Apache 2) & open ecosystem
Open interface for event providers
Polyglot support
Implemented in Scala
Leverages Docker, Kafka, Consul, …

Swift
Application
Container VMCF
2
Polling
1b
Request
1a
Traditional model
• Continous polling due to missing event
programming model
• Charges even when idling due to poor utilization
Process & idle

Swift
Application
Container VMCF
2
Polling
1b
Request
1a
Traditional model
programming model
• Worry about scaling
- When to scale? (mem-, cpu-, response time-driven)
- How fast to scale?
Process & idle

Swift
Application
Container VMCF
2
Polling
1b
Request
1a
Traditional model
programming model
• Worry about scaling
- When to scale? (mem-, cpu-, response time-driven)
- How fast to scale?
• Worry about resiliency
- At least 2 processes for HA (driving cost)
- Deployment in multiple regions (driving cost)
- Keep them running & healthy
Process & idle

OpenWhisk
• Introduces event programming model
• Charges only for what is used due to optimal
utilization Pool of actions
Swift DockerJS
Trigger
1
Running
action
Running
action
Running
action
3
Deploy action within millisecs,
run it,
free up resources
OpenWhisk
Engine
2

OpenWhisk
utilization
• Scales inherently
- One process per request
Pool of actions
Swift DockerJS
Trigger
1
Running
action
Running
action
Running
action
3
run it,
free up resources
OpenWhisk
Engine
2

OpenWhisk
utilization
• Scales inherently
- One process per request
• No cost overhead for resiliency
- No long running process for HA
Pool of actions
Swift DockerJS
Trigger
1
Running
action
Running
action
Running
action
3
run it,
free up resources
OpenWhisk
Engine
2

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Event Providers
OpenWhisk
Cloudant
Push Notifcations
…
…
…
Data event occurs, e.g.
-Commit on a Git Repository
-CRUD operation on Cloudant
-….
Trigger execution
of associated
OpenWhisk action
2
…
JS Swift Docker …

OpenWhisk
JS Swift Docker …
Incoming HTTP request, e.g.
HTTP GET mynewcoolapp.com/customers
1 2 Invoke associated
OpenWhisk action
„getCustomers“
Browser
Mobile App
Web App
Variety of
languages

• Services define the events they emit as triggers, and developers associate
the actions to handle the events via rules
• The developer only needs to care about implementing the desired application
logic - the system handles the rest
T R A

Trigger: „A class of events that can happen“T

A Actions: „An event-handler, i.e. code that runs in response to an event“

A
AA
:= A1
+ A2
+ A3
AB
:= A2
+ A1
+ A3
AC
:= A3
+ A1
+ A2
Actions: Can be chained to create sequences to increase flexibility and foster
reuse

R
R := T A
Rules: „An association of a trigger and an action“

myAction
myFeedT
A
Packages: „A shared collection of triggers and actions“P
A forecast
Open
Source
Yours
Third
Party
translate
languageId
textToSpeec
h
A
A
A
databaseCreate
documentRead
...
changesT
A
A
A
Push
Notifications
sendMessage
webhookT
A
webhookT
postA
Websocket
sendA

You want to try OpenWhisk on your own?

• Want to try out our IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk offering?
Sign-up today at: https://new-console.ng.bluemix.net/openwhisk/

• Want to try out our IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk offering?
Sign-up today at: https://new-console.ng.bluemix.net/openwhisk/
• Want to try out our open-source OpenWhisk offering?
Visit: https://developer.ibm.com/openwhisk/

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Demo time!
http://bit.ly/1Uw6OP3

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How did it work?
https://developer.ibm.com/openwhisk/2016/04/01/ibm-bluemix-openwhisk-whats-under-the-hood/

@yurkvch @altoros 6
Cloud Foundry and OpenWhisk

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I can’t use OpenWhisk on Bluemix because
Vendor lock-in

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Vendor lock-in
All my data is (in local datacenter)

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Vendor lock-in
We implement a hybrid strategy

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Vendor lock-in
We don’t use Bluemix at...

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Vendor lock-in
I need to have the compute device on the network edge

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Vendor lock-in
All my data is (in a local data center)
I need to have the compute device on the network edge
Security!

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https://github.com/openwhisk

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@yurkvch
@altoros
Questions? @AndreasNauerz
@OpenWhisk

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@yurkvch
@altoros
Thank you! @AndreasNauerz
@OpenWhisk

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