1. The FI-WARE Project – Base Platform for Future
Service Infrastructures
Management of Blueprints
Fernando López Aguilar
TID
June 2013
http://www.fiware.eu

2. The FI-WARE Project – Base Platform for Future
Service Infrastructures
1. Basic Concepts
2. API & Operations
3. Demo
Index

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Service Infrastructures
1. Basic Concepts

4. The FI-WARE Project – Base Platform for Future
Service Infrastructures
• Deploying
applica-ons
and
not
only
VMs.
• Ad
hoc
installa-on
(not
template
usage).
• Managing
applica-ons
in
the
VMs
(install,
uninstall,
configure,
snapshot…).
• Deploying
different
environments
for
that
applica-ons.
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)
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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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Service Infrastructures
No just one component
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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
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§ 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
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§ 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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Service Infrastructures
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§ Open Specification PaaS Manager
h t t p s : / / f o r g e . f i - w a r e . e u / p l u g i n s / m e d i a w i k i / w i k i / f i w a r e / i n d e x . p h p /
FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.PaaS
§ Open Specification SDC
h t t p s : / / f o r g e . f i - w a r e . e u / p l u g i n s / m e d i a w i k i / w i k i / f i w a r e / i n d e x . p h p /
FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.SDC
§ Open Specification IaaS SM
h t t p s : / / f o r g e . f i - w a r e . e u / p l u g i n s / m e d i a w i k i / w i k i / f i w a r e / i n d e x . p h p /
FIWARE.OpenSpecification.Cloud.SM
Documentation

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Service Infrastructures
3. Demo

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Service Infrastructures
Our objective
Working together to make it possible:
ü New services for everybody
ü Smart applications
ü 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
The FI-WARE Project – Base Platform for Future
Service Infrastructures