This document discusses the FI-WARE Project's PaaS Manager, which provides a platform-as-a-service layer over the underlying IaaS layer. The PaaS Manager orchestrates the provisioning of virtual resources and installation of software stacks for applications through concepts like blueprints, products, and tiers. It exposes APIs to define and deploy blueprints to specify and install all required resources, software, and configurations for applications on demand.

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Service Infrastructures
Management of Blueprints
Fernando López Aguilar
TID
June 2013
http://www.fiware.eu

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Service Infrastructures
1. Basic Concepts
2. API & Operations
3. Demo
Index

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Service Infrastructures
1. Basic Concepts

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Service Infrastructures
• Deploying applications and not only VMs.
• Ad hoc installation (not template usage).
• Managing applications in the VMs (install, uninstall, configure,
snapshot…).
• Deploying different environments for that applications.
EC2
Objetive of PaaS Manager

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Service Infrastructures
Introduction
PaaS Manager
Claudia SDC GEi
DCRM
Server
Cloud Portal
 The PaaS Manager GE provides a
new layer over the Claudia (IaaS SM
GEi).
 Orchestrate the provisioning of the
required virtual resources at IaaS
level.
 Provide installation and configuration
of the whole software stack of an
application through SDC GEi.
 Provides a flexible mechanism to
perform the deployment, enabling
multiple deployment architectures.

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Service Infrastructures
 Product Release & Product Instance.
• Product Release is an installable software (usually middleware) that is
installed previous to the deployment of an application components.
• Product Release contains the information about the software to be installed,
Product Instance refers to the Product Release already instantiated.
• Example: Apache Tomcat, MongoDB, MySQL, etc.
Entities (I)

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Service Infrastructures
 Tier & Tier Instance.
• An application is structured into Tiers
• A Tier comprises a set of Servers that share the same virtual image and
where the same set of software products is installed.
• Each of this server can to be cloned in order to handle elasticity.
• A Tier Instance is the result of instantiating a given Tier definition (Tier
template).
• Nodes in a Tier are clonable
• Example: A farm of web servers serving static web pages in the given portal
associated to a CRM application.
Entities (II)

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Service Infrastructures
 Blueprint Template & Blueprint Instance.
• Complete software stack required for the deployment of an application.
• Includes IaaS resource (Servers, Networks), products, configuration
instructions.
• Example: an on-line shop application structured into three tiers.
Entities (III)
Tier
All in one
Firewall
node
Firewall
Tier
mix
Tier
Firewall
One scaled Tier
8080 8080
Tier
Tier

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Service Infrastructures
Entities (IV)
 Virtual Appliance (from IaaS SM)
• Pre-built software solutions, comprised of one or more Servers that are
packaged, updated, maintained and managed as a unit.
• Let customers easily acquire, deploy and manage, pre-integrated solution
stacks.
• This speeds up time to value and simplifies software development,
distribution, and management.

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No just one component
PaaS
Manager
IaaS SM SDC
• Deploy Virtual
Appliances
Chef
server
• Install Products
• Config products for Blueprint.

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Service Infrastructures
2. API & Operations

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Service Infrastructures
 The Blueprint that we want to deploy exists in the Catalogue.
• Just get the list of available Blueprint Templates from Catalogue.
 The Blueprint has the definition of the Virtual Appliance and Products
associated to the different Tier.
• The Virtual Appliance is sent to the IaaS SM.
• The Products list is sent to the SDC.
Operations (I): Deploy a Blueprint from
Catalogue.
Cloud Portal PaaS Manager
IaaS SM
SDC
1) BlueprintTemplates[] = listBlueprintTemplate()
2) TaskId = deployBlueprint(BlueprintTemplate)
TaskStatus = getTaskStatus(TaskId)
3) Status = createvApp(vApp)
4) TaskId = installProduct(Server, Product)
TaskStatus = getTaskStatus(TaskId)

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Service Infrastructures
 The Blueprints have to be defined.
• Specification of the products that will be supported.
• Related to the capacities of the SDC GE.
 An Blueprint has to be deployed.
• On demand, just previous to the deployment of an application, or in
advance, in order to enable faster deployments.
 Blueprint and Blueprint Instances can be retired, redefined or evolved.
Operations (II): Define a new Blueprint
Catalogue Template and Deploy.
Cloud Portal PaaS Manager
IaaS SM
SDC
1) ProductList[] = listCatalogueProducts()
2) Status = addBlueprintTemplate(BlueprintTemplate)
3) BlueprintTemplates[] = listBlueprintTemplate()
4) TaskId = deployBlueprint(BlueprintTemplate)
TaskStatus = getTaskStatus(TaskId)
5) Status = createvApp(vApp)
6) TaskId = installProduct(Server, Product)
TaskStatus = getTaskStatus(TaskId)

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 Open Specification PaaS Manager
https://forge.fi-
ware.eu/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.PaaS
 Open Specification SDC
https://forge.fi-
ware.eu/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.SDC
 Open Specification IaaS SM
https://forge.fi-
ware.eu/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/fiware/index.php/FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.SM
Documentation

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3. Demo

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Service Infrastructures
Our objective
Working together to make it possible:
 New services for everybody
 Smart applications
 Innovative business models
Providing the Technology Foundation
– Standard interfaces.
– Open to other actors (SMEs)
– Scalable and demand oriented (cloud)
create a solid basis for the
Internet of the Future
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Service Infrastructures