Java Agile ALM: OTAP and DevOps in the Cloud Bas Van Oudenaarde job Technical Manager at VX Company.

1. Java Agile ALM:
OTAP and DevOps in the Cloud
Releasing the Cloud potentional in Application Development
Bas van Oudenaarde
14 dec 2012, OSC2012

2. Agenda
• ‘whoami’
• History, why Cloud?
• Challenges
• VX Factory
• Development needs
• Agile ALM - DevOps
• Soweto SaaS case
• Future / wrap up

3. Introduction
• Bas van Oudenaarde
• Technical Manager Enterprise Open Source Solutions / Java at VX
Company
• Determine roadmap for development / Consultancy
• Special interest: App development, Cloud and DevOps solutions
• 15 years IT experience

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! Aantal$professionals$ $200$
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“VX Company het bedrijf waar ik zelf graag wil werken”

5. VX Company
Applica'on* Infrastructure* IT=Management*
Services* Services* Services*
Oracle* Service*&*Project*
Microso3*
Management*
Java*
Enterprise*OSS* Tes'ng*Services*
Microso3*
Mobile* Managed*Services* External*Resources*

6. History, why Cloud infrastructure?
• Let me take you back to end 2010...
• Customer request: Build an infrastructure + application which runs
most of the time on 10% of the needed hardware, but could scale up
when needed
• BTW: How much experiences do you have? (real business, no
prototypes and no toy examples, no ideas -> real proof)

7. • Big events...
• Competitions betting on winner, dutch: “pooltje”
• on demand infrastructure before week of event start, scale up

8. Meanwhile @VX...
• Time to Market: How quick can we start with a new project?
• Network capacity to Internet (more projects, more bandwidth needed)
• Storage of older projects, run out of SAN every year
• Flexibility, combinations of different systems / other tooling

9. Needed...
• Time to market (T2M): start of new projects #hours, not #weeks!
• Flexible: network constrains, firewall rules, network config
• Investment (TCO): What if project is finished?
• Maintenance of the Development infrastructure and tooling?
• Quality of Service (QoS) improvement
? Cloud Silver Bullet ?

10. Define Cloud (computing)...
“Cloud
compu*ng
is
a
model
for
enabling
convenient,
on-­‐demand
network
access
to
a
shared
pool
of
configurable
compu;ng
resources
(e.g.,
networks,
servers,
storage,
applica;ons,
and
services)
that
can
be
rapidly
provisioned
and
released
with
minimal
management
effort
or
service
provider
interac;on.
This
cloud
model
promotes
availability
and
is
composed
of
essen;al
characteris;cs,
deployment
models,
and
various
service
models.”
(according:
Na-onal
Ins-tute
of
Standards
and
Technology
(NIST))

11. Challenges...
source: IBM
Resource sharing, how can we control crosstalk
and share on the highest possible level?

12. 5 Criteria of Cloud Computing
•
On-­‐demand
self-­‐service
•
Resource
pooling
•
Network
access
•
Scale
Up/Down
-­‐
on
demand
•
Measured
Service
(e.g.
"Chargebacks")
Myth
#1:
I'm
hos-ng
my
instance
so
we're
on
on
the
'Cloud’
Myth
#2:
We're
using
VMWare,
Xen,
etc.
so
we're
using
the
Cloud

13. Focus
• Looking for PaaS / SaaS level Cloud services
- Benefit maintenance -> patches, keep up to date
- Right people with expertise doing the right job
• Focus on core business: Software Development

14. VXFactory in the Cloud
technogolgy partners
Controle plane hub
OTAP

15. Development Needs
Step 1:Minimum foundation for controlled software development
Issue Management
(Jira)
Document Management Configuratie Management
(Confluence, wiki) (Git, SVN)
Atlassian provides SaaS Solution

16. Step 2:Getting Feedback, quality check on code changes...
Agile Application Lifecycle
Management
eco system
Continuous Integration builds
Continuous Quality builds
Continuous Delivery ...
‘Deploy everywhere’
provides Jenkins PaaS solution -> ‘buidling’ jobs portal

17. Deployment environments...
• Enterprise versions of JBoss AS (EAP) ...on premises deployments
• Very rich development frameworks or hosted deployments
• Easy hook in development tooling
• NoSQL solution -> mongoDB
...many more possible • Mature
Cloud Solutions • Many possibilities to control infrastructure
• Different stacks, data solutions

18. Cloud Computing Scan Solution
• Get Current
• Get Cloud Ready
Determine Cloud Ready status
- Using decision-tree for target Cloud run-time environment
- Feasible? technical / budget-wise
- Taking steps: upgrade, changing interfaces
• Get Cloud Managed
Migrate to target Cloud
- App migrations
- Database migrations
- Monitoring in place
- Integration with development (Agile ALM)

19. Agile ALM
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One small change...

20. Could have a bigger impact in the total...

21. Agile ALM
-Not only on the development phase,
but the on complete Application Life cycle
-Small steps: control risk and complexity
-Quick iterations -> Feed back to adjust plan!
-Many steps will build your solution
Deming circle ’50

22. One problem...

23. The ‘gray’ area
Dev Ops

24. DevOps
• Dev meets Ops -> See infrastructure as code treat it the same way
-> Don’t lean on Ops just act, scaling is also your responsibility
• Ops meet Dev -> Give a part of your control plane away: API
within certain boundaries! Still in control
-> More into the Cloud, we still need control:
e.g. stack Paas on PaaS
• Teaming to get the job done,
e.g. security don’t stop at boundaries it goes from infra up to App space
• Use Agile everywhere, small steps to improve (use feedback loop)

25. Measurement
Real time monitoring,
Running over different Clouds,
Again many Cloud solutions available

26. Agile ALM / DevOps Scan Solutions
• Get Current -> Scanning for improvements
• Determine first steps to start with
• Not a one fit all !
• Not only in automation, also in processes and team spirit

27. First App through VX Factory

28. Soweto Care is about...
• TODO: ... explain more of field ...
• non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• Charity project developed by VX, started as desktop application
- Spent a lot of time to keep it up & running due to virus, theft, lack of
backups ect.
• 2011 completely refactored and build with new VX Factory (ultimate
test)

29. Cloud benefits for Soweto Care
• Control plane let different people (on their Demand) do the job:
- Business Analyst gets Acceptance Test version deploy on AWS
- Business Analyst clicks at the button and deploys on production
• Easy International cooperation around the globe
• http://www.cloudbees.com/case-study/vx-company.cb

31. Recap
• New architectures driven by Mobile Applications
• More SaaS based application,
- Scaling on demand
- Different data manipulation, which scales eed for NoSQL solutions
- Integration in the Cloud
• Cloud Solutions are out there to help!
- Innovation
- parallelism, scaling, T2M, TOC

32. Innovation

33. Future...
• More interoperable Clouds
- No more Cloud locking, especially SaaS solutions are killing
- ecosystems are helping for now
• Standardization
Red Hat Cloudforms
- Security (AuthN / AuthZ)
Open Stack
- Control API ...
• It will be easier!

34. The End