The lines between IaaS and PaaS are blurring. Cloud providers are offering dozens of individual IaaS+ services as an alternative to “all-in-one” PaaS options like OpenShift and Cloud Foundry. How do you handle cloud orchestration when you have a blend of IaaS, IaaS+, and PaaS? We’ll show how you can manage them all with a single pane of glass.

1. ORCHESTRATING
PAAS AND IAAS+ SERVICES
WITH RIGHTSCALE

2. • Adam Alexander
• Senior Cloud Architect
•Dave Frankel
•Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer
Presenters

3. • Defining IaaS, IaaS+, PaaS
• Connecting to any cloud service with plugins
• Orchestrating PaaS/IaaS+ with Cloud Application Templates
• Automating operational management of PaaS/IaaS+
• Demo
Agenda

4. Two Solutions from RightScale
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
IAAS+/PAAS
SERVICES
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINE
R
CLUSTERS
MULTI-CLOUD ORCHESTRATION AND GOVERNANCE
RIGHTSCALE OPTIMA
Collaborate across cloud governance teams,
business units, and resource owners to
manage and optimize cloud spend
RIGHTSCALE CMP
Orchestrate, automate, and govern
applications across any cloud, any cloud
service, any server, and any container.

5. Optima
Cost management and
collaborative optimization
RightScale CMP Solution
VIRTUAL
SERVERS
PUBLIC
CLOUDS
IAAS+/PAAS
SERVICES
PRIVATE
CLOUDS
BARE
METAL
SERVERS
CONTAINER
CLUSTERS
RightScale Cloud Management Platform
User access controls and governance
Governance
Cloud Management
Multi-cloud visibility,
automation, and operations
Self-Service
Catalog of templates and
automated provisioning
MULTI-CLOUD ORCHESTRATION

6. Defined: IaaS, IaaS+, PaaS
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Compute Storage Network
DBaaS Hadoop Queue Batch
Transcoding DNS Push Scheduling
Streaming Schedule Email API Mgmt
Serverless (FaaS) IoT Mobile
Google AppEngine Azure PaaS CloudFoundry OpenShift
PaaS
IaaS
IaaS+

7. Cloud Users Leverage Many Services
Source: RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report

8. Many PaaS and IaaS+ Options
All-in-one
PaaS
Service
Heroku,
EngineYard,
Force.com
Cloud
IaaS
CSP
PaaS
Google App
Engine,
Azure PaaS
CSP
IaaS+
DBaaS
Email,
Queuing…
PaaS
Framework
OpenShift,
Cloud Foundry,
Deis Workflow (MS)
Container foundation
Cloud, Hosted, or On-Premise
Infrastructure
Containers
+ Cluster
Manager
Swarm, Mesos
Kubernetes,
Rancher
CSP
CaaS
AWS ECS,
Azure CS,
Google GKE

9. • Rich web interfaces and command line tools
• Deploy via code push
• Environment management
• Application version management
• Log aggregation and shipping
• Built-in load balancing for incoming web traffic
• Autoscaling
• User authentication, permissions, and quotas
Typical PaaS Capabilities

10. • All-in-one & CSP PaaS
• Pro: Easy to get started, just think about the application
• Con: Limited to technologies and architectures supported by vendor
• CSP IaaS+
• Pro: Flexibility to choose, mix and match services
• Con: Some cloud services offer little portability to other clouds
• PaaS Framework
• Pro: Flexibility to run on hybrid infrastructure, avoids vendor lock in,
can be hosted
• Con: Complexity to set up and manage the PaaS framework
Pros and Cons of Options

11. How RightScale CMP Can Help
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Compute Storage Network Database
Built-In Integration Cloud Service Plug-Ins
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Elastic
Beanstalk
Google
Container
Engine
Azure
PaaS
and more…
Created by
• RightScale
• Customer
• 3rd party

12. • Orchestrates an entire application
stack
• User Input and Output
• Configuration of resources
• Orchestration workflows
• Operational actions
• Permissions
• Published to the catalog
• Leverages plugins to orchestrate any
service
Cloud Application Template (CAT) Overview
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Load Balancers
App Servers
Master DB Slave DB
Replicate >
DNS
CAT

13. Orchestrate with Cloud Application Templates
Cloud Application Template
Cloud Compute
Cloud Storage
Cloud Network
Images
Templates &
Containers
PaaS Services
IaaS+ Services
Web Services
Define
Resources
Govern
User Options
Orchestrate Deployment
Enable
Operations
Code
IaaS Resources via Plugins Application Assets
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14. • Complex applications require many components, including:
• “Non Cloud” resources
• Hardware load balancer pools and VIPs
• DNS Records
• Monitoring
• Cloud IaaS+/PaaS offerings
• DBaaS (RDS, Bigtable, Azure SQL)
• Load balancing (ELB, Google CLB, Azure Load Balancer)
• SaaS Tools
• Logging
• Object Storage
• CDN
• Caching
Use Cases for Plugins
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15. Growing List of Out-of-the-Box Plugins
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Use, modify, contribute at github rightscale/rightscale-plugins

16. • The Plugin definition
• Describes the target API endpoint and interface
• Totally generic
• Consists of;
• Parameters
• Endpoints
• Types
• The Service definition
• An instantiation of a plugin
• Unique to a particular tenant with credentials, etc.
Anatomy of a Plugin
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17. • Map custom service API resources to Plugin definitions
Custom Service API Reference
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18. • Parameters allow customization such as providing
credentials
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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19. • The behavior of lifecycle actions can be customized
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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20. Plugins in a CAT – Putting it all together
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21. A PAAS EXAMPLE

22. Deploy an OpenShift Cluster from RightScale

23. Configure an OpenShift Cluster for Any Cloud

24. Enable Operational Management

25. Use OpenShift to Deploy in the Cluster

26. See Apps in OpenShift

27. For more information, contact sales@rightscale.com
For plugin library github.com/rightscale/rightscale-plugins
Q&A
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