The document discusses the integration of microservices with LeanIX, highlighting its value in modern software development and its integration with CI/CD processes. It details the workflow involving automated documentation of microservices and outlines steps for implementation using the Pivio tool. Key takeaways include the importance of automation in documentation and that the Pivio integration is available for all LeanIX customers.

1. THE MICROSERVICE INTEGRATION
23rd November 2018
Dominik Rose,
Customer Success Manager @LeanIX

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3. The Microservice Integration
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What you will
learn
What value LeanIX brings to modern Software
development
How to hook into your CI/CD process
How a full toolchain based on Github and
TravisCI could look like

4. Motivation?!
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5. Motivation?!
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6. Microservices are no silver bullet, but have certainly proven
helpful when flexibility and scaling are required
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7. The Microservice Integration allows to automatically
document Microservices in LeanIX …
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Source-Code Repository
Source code
Build Info
LeanIX Metadata
LeanIX
Inventory
Continuous
Integration (CI)
Pivio
Client
Fact Sheet
Builds the
Software
automatically
(new releases)
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1 Dependencies from build system, e.g. uses Hibernate3, Java8, etc.
2 Automatically triggered, when a new release is created
3 Updates Fact Sheets in Inventory
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8. … based on open-source description format Pivio
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• Developer-friendly
„YAML“ format
• Open-Source Client
and Server: pivio.io
• Extracts Dependencies
from Java & Javascript
Projects
• Easily extensible for
more build-systems

9. Sample Microservice Project „Appstash“
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appstash-frontend-catalog
appstash-frontend-checkout
appstash-frontend-registration
appstash-service-cart
appstash-service-dataloader
appstash-service-navigation
appstash-service-product
appstash-service-recommendation
appstash-service-user
Team 1
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Team 9
github repo 1
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github repo 4
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github repo 6
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github repo 9
ci job 1
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https://github.com/zutherb/AppStash

10. Microservice Pipeline based on Pivio Integration –
Step by step
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Local source code Version control CI Server LeanIX Messenger
„Develop“ „Store“ „Build“ „Share“ „Inform“Upload Push/Pull Upload Send Event
Automatic StepManual Step
Pivio.yaml
Build-File
travis.yml
API Token
Webhook
Setup
Pivio.yaml
Build-File
travis.yml

11. 1. Create an API token
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2. Checkout sample projects and apply token to Travis CI

13. 2. Checkout sample projects and apply token to Travis CI
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14. 3. Download a pivio template directly from your
LeanIX workspace
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15. 4. Understand the project structure – you only need to add a
pivio.yaml to the source code
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Javascript (NPM) Java (Maven)

16. 5. Apply changes „as development team“
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17. Quick recap: Our Microservice Pipeline
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Local source code Version control CI Server LeanIX Messenger
„Develop“ „Store“ „Build“ „Share“ „Inform“Upload Push/Pull Upload Send Event
Automatic StepManual Step
Pivio.yaml
Build-File
travis.yml
API Token
Webhook
Setup
Pivio.yaml
Build-File
travis.yml

18. 6. Commit and push the changes – and use LeanIX to quickly
access Version Control and CI Server
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19. 7. Let your CI Server do the work
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20. 8. See the updates in the workspace
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21. 9a. Explore Advanced Features: Whitelisting
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22. 9b. Explore Advanced Features: Synclog
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23. Wrap-Up (1/3): Deliberate Choice to put Microservices as
Application – different options to connect to “classical” world
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Ordering
Inventory
Billing
Accounting
Application
Interface
IT Component
Order Service Billing Service
Inventory Service Accounting Service
SAP FI
Paypal
Billing
API
Order
API
Inventory
API
MySQL
MongoDB
Finance
API
Orders
Data Object
Invoices
Stock Items Balances

24. Use Cases
User Needs
People involved
• Digital Transformation
• M&A Harmonization
• Tech. Risk Mgmt
• Easy UI / UX
• Visualization
• Collaboration
• Extendable Repository
• + CTO
• + IT Product Mgr
• + IT Project Mgr
• Cloud Transformation
• Microservices Adoption
• IoT Enablement
• Integrations
• Automation
• Machine Learning
• Recommendations
• + SW Developer
• + IT Operations
• Generic Repository
• Meta-Modelling
• Scenario Analysis
• CIOs
• Top Management
Wrap-Up (2/3) – The Pivio integration helps you to move
from traditional EA towards Application Intelligence
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“Traditional”
EA
“Collaborative”
EA
“Application
Intelligence”
Predictive EA
• Documentation
• Rationalization
• Standards &
Governance

25. Wrap-Up (3/3): “Eat your own dogfood“ – Microservices,
Development Teams and Data Objects at LeanIX
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Key Take Aways
A Docker client makes it
easy to hook into your
specific CI/CD toolchain
Agile Software Teams can
be powerful allies as they
strive for automatic
documentation
The Pivio Integration is
available for all LeanIX
customers!
https://dev.leanix.net/docs/microservices

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Thank you! Any questions?