The document discusses the evolution and significance of Cloud Foundry as an open-source platform for managing applications and services in a DevOps environment. It outlines the role of Cloud Foundry in facilitating agile development, continuous delivery, and operational efficiency while eliminating traditional barriers between development and operations teams. Key features include application management in containers, infrastructure abstraction, and zero-downtime upgrades.

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Removing Barriers Between
Dev and Ops
It Takes a Platform
Devops @ VMworld
14 October 2015
Shahaf Azriely, Advisory Field Engineer EMEA

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Software is Changing Industries
$6B valuation
Financial Services
$3.5B valuation
Travel & Hospitality
$19B valuation
Transportation
$3.2B Acquisition by Google
Home Automation
$20B valuation
Entertainment
$1.1B acquisition
Monsanto--Agriculture

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Increased Expectations and Increased Efficiencies
Changing development and release disciplines
• Agile/Developer Productivity/TDD
• Continuous Delivery
• DevOps
• Cloud-native App Design
• Culture/Talent
Time
Expectations
&
Efficiency
Innovation Gap
IaaS
Automation
DevOps, CD, Agile
Traditional IT
Startups
Enterprise
PaaS

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“Operations is the secret sauce”
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/10/operations-is-a-competitive-ad.html

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the difference is platformsthe difference is third platform

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

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An (Overly) Simple View of the World
Applications
Ÿ Stateless
Ÿ Run in Containers
Ÿ Horizontally Scalable
Ÿ Disposable
Ÿ No permanent storage
Data Services
Ÿ Stateful
Ÿ Run in Virtual Machines
Ÿ Multi-tenant
Ÿ Diagonally scalable
Ÿ 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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Platform
Services (stateful):
Run in virtual machines
Applications (stateless):
Run in containers
Cloud Foundry manages transformations
between existing and desired system states,
using immutable infrastructure.
Amend
(Re)deploy
(Re)configure
(Re)connect
Monitor
Current
State Desired
State

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The
Cloud
Foundry
Founda/on:
An
Open
Industry
Standard
PLATINUM
GOLD
SILVER

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Devops
Eliminating Barriers

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The Cloud Platform Evolution
TRADITIONAL IAAS
Virtualization Platform
Operating System
Database
Web
Server
Messaging
Your Application
Code
Physical Servers
Database
Web
Server
Messaging
Your Application
Code
IAAS
Your Application
Code
PAAS
Virtualized
Infrastructure
PAAS

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Application Dial Tone
Emits application “dial tone”
• Config
• Runtime
• Logs
• Metrics
• Health Management
• Security
• Operations
Your Application
Code
PAAS
Virtualized
Infrastructure

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Enabling Devops
Database
Web
Server
Messaging
Your Application
Code
PAAS
Virtualized
Infrastructure
PAAS
Platform Operations
Application Developers
Application Operations
• Deploys platform
• Makes standard runtimes and services
available
• Monitors platform
• Scales platform
(ensuring sufficient capacity)
• Upgrades platform with zero-downtime
• Creates deployable
artifact
• Config Prod environment
• Deploys application to Prod
• Monitors application
• Scales application (capacity)
• Deploys new app version with
zero downtime.

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Operations Activities and Tools
Platform Application
Deploy: Operations Manager Deploy: Application Manager, CLI,
STS Plugin, CI/CD Pipelines
Monitor: logs and metrics Monitor: Agentless APM
APM integrations
Application logs – cli, Apps Man, ELK
Scale: Operations Manager Scale: Apps Manager, cli, autoscaling
Upgrade: Canary, Rolling Upgrades
Zero Downtime
Upgrade: Blue/green, route
mappings, gradual cutover
Zero Downtime

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Deploy
> cf push
-p spring-music.war
corneliastunes

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cmt
Platform Enables Process
cmt v201cmt cmt cmt cmt v202 cmt
Prod
…
Test
Dev
…

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The Deployment Pipeline
Commit
Tests
Integration
Tests
Deployable
Artifact
Deploy to CF
Test Env
Deploy to
Prod
• Developer crafted (before impl.)
• Stubs/mocks external services
• Developer executed (before commit)
• CI executed (after commit)
(after commit)
• Developer or QA crafted
• CI executed
• Runtime context (buildpack applied)
• Binds to test services (DB, messaging, etc.)
• “cf push”
• Runtime context (buildpack applied)
• Binds to test services (DB, messaging, etc.)
• Periodic smoke tests
• “cf push”
• Runtime context (buildpack applied)
• Binds to prod services (DB,
messaging, etc.)
• Periodic smoke tests
• Monitoring
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Monitoring in Cloud Foundry
• Syslog Endpoint
Configuration via
OpsMan
• Log search and
persistence such as
ELK
• Collector Component
with plugins for JMX
and DataDog
• OpsMetrics Tile and
Hyperic
• CLI: cf logs appname
• Apps Manager
• Stayup.io ELK tile
• Agentless APM
• APM integrations
Platform Applications
MetricsLogs

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Application Logs

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Application Metrics

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Platform Logs

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Platform Metrics

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Vmware + Pivotal for Operational Excellence
vRealize
Operations
Manager Time Series DB
Pivotal
Ops Metrics
Pivotal Cloud
Foundry - ERS

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Scale
> cf scale
-i 5
corneliastunes

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Upgrade

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Every Commit is a Candidate for Deployment
cmt v201cmt cmt cmt cmt v202 cmt
Prod
…
Test
Dev
…

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Every Commit is a Candidate for Deployment
cmt v201cmt cmt cmt cmt v202 cmt
Prod
…
Test
…
App
Platform
CVE

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PCF – Each Layer Upgradable with Zero Downtime
* Devs may bring a custom buildpack
runtime layer*
OS image
application layer
PCF Buildpack Apps
linux host & kernel
App container
PCF Supported
Dev Supported
Ops Supported
• Platform Provided
• CVEs addressed by Pivotal
• Canary-style, zero-
downtime upgrades
• Platform or Developer
Provided
• CVEs addressed by Pivotal
(for Platform Provided)
• Blue/Green deployments
• Developer/App team
provided
• Blue/Green deployments

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Upgrade

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Enabling Devops
Database
Web
Server
Messaging
Your Application
Code
PAAS
Virtualized
Infrastructure
PAAS
Platform Operations
Application Developers
Application Operations
• Deploys platform
• Makes standard runtimes and services
available
• Monitors platform
• Scales platform
(ensuring sufficient capacity)
• Upgrades platform with zero-downtime
• Creates deployable
artifact
• Config Prod environment
• Deploys application to Prod
• Monitors application
• Scales application (capacity)
• Deploys new app version with
zero downtime.

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And on top of all that…
… something else we’ve found in
enterprises

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Virtualized
Infrastructure
Infrastructure-centric Operations Model
Your Application
Code
Database
Web
Server
Messaging
IaaS+
(+automation) IT Ops Team
App Team
(Dev and Ops)

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Application-centric Operations
Virtualized
Infrastructure
Your Application
Code
Database
Web
Server
Messaging
IaaS+
(+automation)
IT Ops Team
App Team
Your Application
Code
PAAS
Virtualized
Infrastructure
PaaS Ops Team
App Team
(Dev and Ops)
Emits application “dial tone”
• Configuration
• Runtime
• Logs
• Metrics
• Health Management
• Security

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Thank You

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