This document discusses automation and Cloud Foundry. It notes that automation is often seen as a frightening force. It then provides an overview of Cloud Foundry, describing it as a leading open source platform-as-a-service that is language and framework agnostic and manages both virtual machines and containers. It discusses how Cloud Foundry and OpenStack can work together by leveraging shared components and an overlapping ecosystem.

1. “Automation is Voldemort: the terrifying force nobody is willing to name.”
- Jerry Michalski

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“The primary purpose
of any piece of
software, is to exist. It
is better to ship, than
to not ship.”
— Bob Parsley, Netscape

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Nova v0.1 was
written in 17 days
by 5 people.

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OpenStack &
Cloud Foundry
The Best Things in Cloud Are Free

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OpenStack &
Cloud Foundry
The Best Things in Cloud Are Free
(Free as in Speech, not as in Beer).

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Cloud Foundry is…
The world’s leading open source platform-as-a-service.
 Supported by dozens of major organizations
 Language and framework agnostic
 Manages both VMs and containers
 Orchestrates both applications and data services
Founded and commercialized by Pivotal, Inc.

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An (Overly) Simple View of the World
Applications
 Stateless
 Run in Containers
 Horizontally Scalable
 Disposable
 No permanent storage
Data Services
 Stateful
 Run in Virtual Machines
 Multi-tenant
 Diagonally scalable
 Durable storage

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Cloud Foundry: Applications and Services
Services (virtual machines):
managed by “BOSH”
Applications (containers):
managed by “Runtime”

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Industry Voting:
‘Cloud Foundry’ is
the standard in
PaaS

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Incredible Cloud Foundry Ecosystem

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OpenStack and Cloud Foundry: Shared Ecosystem

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CF for ‘Stackers
 How are things the same?
 How are things different?
 Why would I get involved?
 How do I get involved?
 Next Steps

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How are things the same?
OpenStack & Cloud Foundry
License Apache v2.0
Community Vendors, Users, and Developers
Architecture API-based services and message-passing

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OpenStack and Cloud Foundry: Shared Ecosystem

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How are things different?
OpenStack Cloud Foundry
Language Python Go and Ruby
Release Cycle 6 months, integrated 2 weeks, parallel
Governance Dedicated Foundation Linux Foundation project
Installation tools Various BOSH or Juju
Communication Hub IRC (#openstack-dev) Mailing lists
Source code & review Gerritt & Private Git GitHub & pull requests
Adoption Mostly OSS trials and
dev/test environments
Mostly commercial
production deployments

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Different strokes for different folks
 Better SLAs
 Flexibility
 Speed
 Availability
 Faster Time To Market
 Mobile + Data Services
 Agile and Iterative
 Leverage OSS
• Continuous Delivery
• No Downtime
• Instant scaling
• Consistency &
Automation
PaaS Dev PaaS OpsIaaS

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Removing Developer and Operator Constrains
BUILD
APPLICATION
PUSH FIRST
RELEASE
MAINTAIN
APPLICATION
UPDATE
APPLICATIONS
RETIRE
APPLICATIONS
• Auto-detect frameworks
• Link to PaaS
• Self-service deploy
• Dynamic routing
• Elastic scale
• Integrated HA
• Autoscaling and APM
• Log aggregation
• Policy and Auth
• A/B versioning
• Live upgrades
• Self-service
removal

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Ten years ago…
• Puppet
Configuration
Management is
invented
2005
• Launch of Amazon
AWS EC2 Beta
• Google BigTable
Paper published
• Facebook becomes
publicly available
2006 • Netflix launches
Video-on-Demand
• First release of open
source Hadoop
2007
• Apple launches the
App Store
• Amazon AWS comes
out of Beta
2008

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Business Expectations Exceed IT Capabilities
Cloud
IT Technology Eras
Mainframe Client-Server
The exponential
increase in business
expectations is
unsustainable for IT
MILLIONS OF APPS
BILLIONS OF DEVICES
* Source: Gartner, 2013: “Hunting and Harvesting in a Digital World: The 2013 CIO Agenda”
$ $ $ $ $ $
ABILITY OF IT TO
DELIVER S/W
STEADY IT
BUDGETS*
BUSINESS
EXPECTATIONS

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“Avert the danger
which has not yet
come.”

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Containers Alone Aren’t Enough…

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Unit of Value
IaaS == Virtual Machine
 Opaque to the system
 Orchestration is post-hoc
 System changes are
imperative (“launch” stuff)
PaaS == Application
 Containers are transparent
 Lifecycle is fully managed
 System changes are
declarative (manifest.yml)

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Understanding PaaS
Turning this… …into this:
.war .jar
dependencies
libraries
service
manifest
App App App
LB
DB
Multi-server run time
environment(s)
.tar.gz

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Cloud Foundry “Smart Containers”
Containers
(1st Gen)
• lxc or
cgroups
Docker (2nd
Gen)
• Net NS
• AuFS
Smart
Containers
(3rd Gen)
• HA
• ACLs
• Metrics
• Scheduling

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Application patterns are changing…

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Language, Service and IaaS Agnostic
……
…
(Crust)(Sauce)(Toppings)

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Why would I care?
(Hint: It’s not just for the parties.)

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Why IT loves Open Source Software
NOT Because:
 They want to change it (because most users won't)
 They think that software should be cheap or free.
But, BECAUSE:
 Open Source processes force agile development.
 Healthy OSS community guarantees multiple vendors.

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Why would I care?
 Installing Cloud Foundry will unlock the value of your
OpenStack investment.
 Learning to use Cloud Foundry will move your career back
towards the creation of new business value.
 Packaging your software for CF-BOSH will open up the
behind-the-firewall market to your SaaS product.

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Next steps in the CF + OpenStack world
 Deeper Neutron integration
 Bunny Breeding Efforts (more and more Rabbits)
 Unified Cloud Policy via OpenStack Congress

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Do this. Now.
 Sign up for the CF and BOSH mailing lists.
 Learn how to write 12-factor applications.
 Come to a free Pivotal Cloud Foundry workshop.
 Register for the next Cloud Foundry Summit.
 Try out BOSH (http://bosh.io) and CF (http://run.pivotal.io)

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