The document discusses strategies for accelerating the adoption of cloud computing, specifically focusing on PaaS (Platform as a Service) within OpenStack environments. It highlights the importance of agility, cost savings, and operational efficiency for enterprises transitioning to cloud solutions. Key principles and success factors are outlined to support organizations in developing a developer-centric culture and effectively measuring the success of their cloud initiatives.

1. Accelerating the adoption of Cloud Computing
PaaS and OpenStack
The Strategy for an Agile Enterprise
OpenStack Summit, Paris, France
November 4, 2014

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Francesco Paola
CEO
Seth Fox
VP Operations
Our team understands OpenStack adoption in the Enterprise

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Who we are
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Solinea is the leading software and services company that delivers integrated
OpenStack™ solutions, enabling enterprise adoption of Cloud Computing
Cloud is the only domain we focus on, with vertical industry
and horizontal solutions specialization
Purpose-built
for cloud
Track record of success architecting, building and operating
production clouds – private and public – world-wide
Proven Delivery
Success
We understand cloud adoption challenges of global enterprise
companies
Enterprise IT
Experience
Pre-configured management and monitoring platform for
OpenStack™ and other Open Infrastructure components
Differentiating
IP
Built the first OpenStack production clouds and
contributors to the platform since its inception
OpenStack™
Experience

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You have decided to implement an OpenStack cloud, on-premise
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In the interest of time…
… assume that the business drivers are typical ones…
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Agility
Cost Savings
Operational
Efficiency
Openness

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… but really it’s Agility
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Let’s also assume…
…that you have architected OpenStack to support your
current and future workloads, such as…
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Media
Transcoding
& Streaming
Big Data
Analytics
HPC Dev/Test … and more

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So you’ve done your homework…
…and took the approach to implementing
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http://www.openstack.org/enterprise/auto/
Proof of
Concept
Measure Iterate Pilot Measure Iterate
Production
Phase 1

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… and have a production OpenStack cloud…
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Media
Transcoding
& Streaming
Big Data
Analytics
HPC
Dev/Test !!

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… but now you have to scale…
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… and achieve and exceed agility metrics
… and start hitting the cost metrics
… and hit operational efficiency targets
Process Organization Skills

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Look at the entire lifecycle
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The
Business
The
Developers
The
Deployers
The
Operators
Agile
DevOps
PaaS

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What is PaaS
ü Automation
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Developer Portal/IDE
PaaS: Common Shared Services
API
IaaS
CI/CD Tool Chain
Data
Service
Interface
Published
Services
Platform
Services
ü Developer Velocity
ü Standards
ü Developer Control

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Case Study
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Developer Portal/IDE
PaaS: Common Shared Services
API
IaaS
CI/CD Tool Chain
Data
Service
Interface
Published
Services
Platform
Services

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Business Drivers
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ü Competitive Threats
ü Time to Market
ü Service Quality & Availability
ü Reduce Cost

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PaaS Guiding Principles
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ü Agile as a pre-requisite
ü Inversion of control
ü Enable a developer-centric environment
ü Invest in the platform – not projects
ü Centrally engineered, managed and operated
ü PaaS must be prescriptive
ü Open Source Community Development Approach

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Base Platform Characteristics
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DEV
Integration
Resource Pool
PaaS: Common Shared Services
TEST
Performance
Resource Pool
PROD
Platform
Resource Pool
Sandbox
Common
Services
Developer
Service Code
Infrastructure
Code
Source Repo
CI/CD
Code Review
Test Fixtures
Release
Management
Release
Management
ü Service Discovery Enablement
ü CI/CD Integration
ü SOA-enabled systems & services
ü Community development model
ü Facilitates developer onboarding
ü Open source where possible

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The MVP
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Base Common Services
§ Logging
§ Monitoring
§ Single Sign-on
Extended Common Services
§ Certificate Management
§ Caching
§ Load Balancing
§ Elastic Scaling
§ … etc.
“Hello World” App
§ e.g. Wordpress
§ Three-tier
§ SSO Authentication
§ Logging
§ Monitoring
Base
Common
Services
Base
Platform
“Hello
World”
PaaS MVP
MilestoneMilestoneMilestone
Common & Published Services Extension
Scale App MigrationMilestone

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Measuring Success
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Production
Release Velocity
Development
Environment
Provision Time
PaaS Adoption
Developer Wait Cycles
DEV vs. TEST Defect Rate
Agility
Efficiency
Quality

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Critical Success Factors
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ü Develop the technical community
ü Leverage PaaS Champions
ü SOA Enablement of PaaS Services
ü Measure KPIs
ü Minimize lock-in
ü Adopt an MVP approach

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Organizational Structure
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Governance
Program
Manager
Product
Manager
PaaS
Architect
Project
Manager
Product
Managers
PaaS
Engineers
Task
Team
External
Resources
Ops
Manager
Ops
Team
Network
App Owner
SME
Biz Owner
Rotation
Multi-Function Task
Analyze
Build
TestDoc
Deploy
Working Groups
Communications
Enablement Policy
KPI Tracking
Scrum
Masters
Backlog
Security
Program
Product
Other(s)

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Tool chain
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7
Governance
Workload
Onboarding
D
Build
PaaS
Policy Development - Program/Product Management
Self Service PaaS
Application Profiling
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Source Control / Code Review
App 1
App N + 1
Common Shared Services
MVP
Base Platform
Env.
Defn.
V 1.0
PD
Steady State Ops
Establish DevOps TeamPhase 2Phase 1 Phase 3
D
T P
T P
Workstreams

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Driving towards a developer-centric culture
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ü Achieve agility in the technology organization
ü Improve and sustain quality of services
ü Enable Innovation
ü Strengthen competitive position
Benefits
ü Centrally managed PaaS environment
ü Invest in the platform, not the project
ü Prescriptive framework defining standards
ü Common shared services enabling reusability
ü Resource allocation and management at the platform level
PaaS Tenets

23. Francesco Paola, CEO; fpaola@solinea.com
Seth Fox, VP Operations; seth@solinea.com
www.solinea.com
Thank You

24. Accelerating the adoption of Cloud Computing
PaaS and OpenStack
The Strategy for an Agile Enterprise
OpenStack Summit, Paris, France
November 4, 2014