With cloud technologies, it’s easier than ever to provision a couple of servers. It seems every cloud has its own way of expressing an environment definition as a file. However, teams that are just scripting their infrastructure encounter problems. How do you manage costs? How do you share services with other teams? What about getting test data? How do you manage complexity? What happens when you want to be in multiple clouds? That simple text document starts to look insufficient. Join IBM’s Bill Stoddard and Eric Minick for a look at what it really takes to create environments on demand that are actually useful and to get into production faster. In this webinar, we will highlight common “gotchas” that trip teams up and how to set a path for success.

1. So you want a test environment
Jan 29, 2019
Bill Stoddard
Program Director, Cloud Automation Manager
Eric Minick
Program Director, Hybrid DevOps

2. Creating Environments
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Wrong Question
How quickly can we provision a VM?
Better Question
How quickly can I start testing my app?
Empty VMs are pretty useless

3. It’s just as simple as an
Infrastructure Template
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
A whole environment
provisioned from one
doc!
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4. It’s just as simple as an
Infrastructure Template
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
A whole environment
provisioned from one
doc!
I don’t think anything
is there
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5. It’s just as simple as an
Infrastructure Template and
configuration management
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
With config
management we get
middleware!
… Error 404
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6. ... And the App
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
The Application
You need the app you’re going to test
Release automation can
put the latest app out
there
I can’t login
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7. ... And the Data
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
The Application
You need the app you’re going to test
Data
Most applications are only testable with test data loaded
We’ll bring in the data
from prod
I don’t think I should
see these credit card
numbers
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8. ... And the Data (generated or
obfuscated)
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
The Application
You need the app you’re going to test
Data
Most applications are only testable with test data loaded
Right. We’ll manage the
test data better.
Did you see this bill for
that API we use?
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9. ... And Virtualize away external
dependencies
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
The Application
You need the app you’re going to test
Data
Most applications are only testable with test data loaded
External Dependencies
Address things outside of your app that it depends on (web services)
Service Virtualization
can isolate your app
The test lab is down.
Why didn’t anyone
notice?
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10. ... And your management and
monitoring layer
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
The Application
You need the app you’re going to test
Data
Most applications are only testable with test data loaded
External Dependencies
Address things outside of your app that it depends on (web services)
Management
Performance and availability monitoring/management agents
Service Virtualization
can isolate your app
The test lab is down.
Why didn’t anyone
notice?
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11. So how does this work?
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Infrastructure
Compute, network and storage
Server Config and Middleware
Get the middleware installed and patched. Configure users. Etc.
The Application
You need the app you’re going to test
Data
Most applications are only testable with test data loaded
External Dependencies
Address things outside of your app that it depends on (web services)
Management
Performance and availability monitoring/management agents
• Cloud Management Platform
• Gateway to infrastructure provisioning
• Calls config management for middleware / OS config
• Wires in management tooling / agents
• Calls release automation tooling
• Release Automation (Continuous Delivery)
• Deploy your app and database schema updates
• Call test data management and service virtualization
• Test Data Management
• Generate test data and/or:
• Copy a subset of production data and sterilize it
• Service Virtualization
• Virtualize (mock) external services
• Decouples app under test from 3rd party services or other
internal applications
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12. Hey Everybody, we’re
standardizing on a single
cloud for all of our
application workloads

13. Source: IBM MD&I; BCG and McKinsey research
of enterprise customers are using multiple
cloud environments
(public and/or private)
94%
of enterprise customers are using more than
one public cloud provider
(expected to remain constant or increase by 2022)
67%
A real world look at multicloud
Movement
between clouds 73% priority
concern
Consistency
of management 67% priority
concern
Connectivity
between clouds 82% priority
concern
The reality… Hybrid Multicloud is the future
Traditional IT
(80% of workloads
are here)
Public Clouds
& SaaS
Private
Clouds
Dedicated
Clouds
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14. Process
Tools
&
Technology
Culture
• Culture: changing to support DevOps
and Site Reliability
• Tools: Multicloud chaos and bespoke
tools
• Process: unified process models give
way to multiple best-fit processes
per Line of Business
Hybrid Multicloud is the future
but there are challenges
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15. A multicloud management platform should enable you to achieve
movement, connectivity, and consistency of management of workloads and
data across public, private clouds
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• Accommodate diverse resources
• Accommodate diverse management styles
• Integrate management and data plane
• Unify processes across clouds
• Mitigate lock-in
… and others
Develop:
Build &
Provision
Operate:
Monitor,
Manage &
Optimize

16. Hybrid multicloud is mostly about containers and Kubernetes
77%of containers are managed by Kubernetes
200%Increase in Kubernetes adoption
since 2017

17. Organizations are deploying multiple clusters
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+Public Private
Clusters Spanning
Clusters Spanning East Coast West Coast
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Type
Location
Dev Test
+ PurposeClusters Spanning
9 out of 10 enterprises adopting Kubernetes have already deployed multiple
clusters

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As organizations modernize and
deploy more clusters, new
challenges emerge.
…Challenges around deploying,
managing, and maintaining
compliance for modernized
applications across clouds
For Enterprise customers, bridging
the cloud divide from Traditional IT
management can seem impossible.

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Visibility
• Where are the failed components?
• Where are my services running?
• How can I monitor applications across
clusters and clouds?
• How can I manage clusters as if they
were one environment ?
• How do I monitor usage across clouds ?

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Governance
• How do I set consistent security policies
across environments ?
• Which clusters are compliant?
• How can I manage configuration across
this large environment ?
• How can I place workloads based on
capacity, policy

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Automation
• How do I deploy applications across
these environments?
• How do I move workloads across
environments?
• How can I backup my applications?
• How do I do Disaster Recovery ?

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Kubernetes Use Case: Application Management
• Define and Deploy applications
across clusters based on policy
• Autogenerated monitoring
dashboards that update based
on deployment
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Kubernetes Use Case: Policy-Based Governance
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• Set and enforce polices for
security, applications, &
infrastructure
• Checks compliance across all
clusters
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Kubernetes Use Case: Cluster Lifecycle Management
• Manages clusters across
multiple data centers and
public cloud Kubernetes
services
• Identifies health across all
clusters
• Provides visibility into problems
across clusters
• Enables cluster organization
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25. Key Considerations (for a modern solution)
• Manage infrastructure as code
• Accommodate multicloud, hybrid cloud, multi-
architecture
• Accommodate mutable & immutable styles
• Centrally managed, multitenant, flexible RBAC
• Pre-built, configurable, open source templates
• GUI interface yet fully scriptable REST API
• IT Service Orchestration
• Loose coupling to monitoring tools suites
• Resource tagging 25
Infrastructure automation
Declarative full stack automation
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Service Catalog
Expose any cloud service in the world to your developers
Based on Open Service Broker specification
• Consistent, cloud agnostic service interface
• Bind services to build complex application
environments; use with CI/CD toolchains
• Build configurable services with pre-configured ‘guard
rails’ for compliance and ease of use
For Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes resources
• Hybrid cloud, hybrid architecture - combine Helm
charts and Terraform in any cloud
• Integrate with traditional ITIL tools, drive REST APIs
• Build IT service orchestrations graphically with Service
Composer
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Graphical Design Tools
Automation and Services
• Lower skill barriers to building automation and services
• Save time and effort with pre-built configurable automation.
Use right out-of-the box with recommended default values, or
change them to get desired behavior and performance
• Subscribed automation content and self developed content all
in one place. Just select what you need and bring it into your
canvas.
• Orchestrate with ease: define order by operations by
numbering
• Integrated with DevOps toolchains. Manage your automation
creation processes for higher efficiency
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ITIL Service Integrations

28. IBM hybrid multicloud management platform technology stack
Available as an on premises self managed solution or as a hosted managed service
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Enterprise Content Catalog
Open Source and IBM Middleware, Data, Analytics, and AI
Software
Core Operational Services
Log Management, Monitoring, Metering, Security, Alerting
Kubernetes Container Platform
IBM Cloud Private, IKS, Red Hat OpenShift
IBM Multicloud Manager
Visibility, governance, and automation across multicloud environments
Key Values:
• Reduced infrastructure,
license, and management
costs
• Flexibility of deployment
(on-prem, public cloud)
mitigate vendor lock-in
• Consistent management
across all environments
• Catalog of development
services
• Agility, scalability, and
elasticity
• Enterprise security
Cloud Automation Manager
Infrastructure automation with
Terraform
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Cloud Cost and Asset Mgmt
Track costs and asset utilization with
prescriptive guidance

29. Environment Savvy
Understand complex
environments and what app
pieces go where. Catch
provisioned environments
Application Savvy
Deploy full applications with
multiple tiers, not just build
promotion.
Integration Savvy
Call your testing, test data
management, and service
virtualization tooling
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Adding Release Automation
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30. Text or image
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IBM’s Release Automation:
UrbanCode Deploy
Continuous Delivery for multi-tier or multi-
service applications
Pipeline views of which changes are where
Push-button deployment of applications into
environments from Dev to Test to Prod
200+ Integrations (plugins) with middleware and
other tools
Quality Gates and Approvals: Policies governing
what moves to production either data driven or
human driven.
• Automation to go
fast
• Automation to
be correct
• Governance to be
allowed to do it at
all
Easy Automation
• graphical design
• not scripts
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31. Small / Fast
Use data subsetting or
virtualization to avoid
copying terabytes
Watch Governance
If using real data, protect
secrets and personal
information
Fabricate
Ideal for generating data that
tests boundary conditions and
error conditions
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Adding Test Data Management
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IBM®
InfoSphere®
OptimTM
Continuous Data for Continuous Testing
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DB2 Oracle SQL
Products Customers Employees
DB2 Oracle SQL
Products Customers Employees Orders
Synthetic
Integrated
Test Data
Environment
Data
Extract Data Subset
Mask PII Data
1TB 800GB 400GB
30GB 50GB 20GB
Employees
Synthetic
Data
Production
Customers
Synthetic
Data
Test

33. Simulate
Dependencies
Test against Virtual API
stubs that approximate
internal or external systems
Decouple
Virtualize components that are
not cloud-ready so other app
elements can move
Lower Cost
Simulate systems that are
expensive to test against
(charged by API call)
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Adding Service Virtualization
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34. An application developer or test engineer can:
• Test the flow of data to and from APIs
• Virtualize APIs that are unavailable at that time
• Simulate errors from an API service to see how the solution reacts
• Simulate the behavior of APIs being hosted in different geographical locations
How?
Rational Test Workbench can create stubs that simulate the
behavior of APIs from 3rd party providers or existing / legacy
technologies
Did you know…
Virtual API stubs can be run in Kubernite or Docker containers
System under test
3rd party
Application in development
Legacy tool
API1
API2
Cloud
Introducing IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server
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Example IBM Toolchain
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Questions?
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