A lot of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) are willing to IT enable their businesses to attract more customers and also to reduce the amount of manual work. One of the challenges they face during this is the cost of IT infrastructure such as maintaining data centers, deployments and license fees among other things. WSO2 Cloud offers an app cloud and an API cloud that are hosted and maintained by the WSO2 Cloud Team. In this session, Amila will show you how easily you can get started with the WSO2 App Cloud and API Cloud, what it offers and how it can make things easy for SMEs.

1. Ge#ng Started with App Cloud and API
Cloud for SMEs
Amila Maharachchi
Associate Director / Architect
WSO2 Inc.

2. Necessity of IT for SMEs
• Reach a wider audience
○ TradiGonal ways are not enough
• Improve the user experience
○ UX plays a big role
• Reduce operaGonal cost
○ Automate certain tasks

3. Challenges
• Liability of maintaining an IT staff
• ExperGse of the IT staff
• Developing soluGons
• HosGng the soluGons
• Infrastructure costs
• License fees
• Time to market
• AnalyGcs

4. John’s Story
• John runs a taxi service
• He wants to expand his business
• Someone advises him to launch a website
• John hires a web developer - Bill
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5. Bill
• Develops a web app which allows users to book a
ride online
• Tests it locally
• Now looking for a place to host
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6. Requirements in HosGng
• Not very complex
○ Should be available (most of the Gme)
○ Handle the load (although it is not much)
○ Should provide acceptable performance
○ Needs a DB to persist data
○ Mapped to a nice URL
■ Bill has convinced John to buy johnscabs.com domain

7. WSO2 Cloud
• Public cloud offering from WSO2
○ App Cloud
○ API Cloud

8. WSO2 App Cloud

9. App Cloud Features
• Runs on Kubernetes
• Container per app version
• Horizontal scalability
• Container sizes to select from
• Custom URL for apps
• Database provisioning

10. Mobile App
• John wants a mobile app to reach more customers
• He also wants analyGcs on which app is more
popular etc.

11. Poor Bill….
• Bill is smart
• He has wri^en the webapp with backend-frontend
separaGon
• He extracts the backend and deploy it as a separate
app in WSO2 App Cloud
• Now he wants this to be a managed api

12. API Management
• Bill has heard about the api cloud
○ He also has seen the link to it while he was deploying the
app in app cloud
• He goes to api cloud

13. API Cloud Experience
• He gets an interacGve tutorial
• Within 5 mins he has a sample api deployed and
running

14. API Cloud Experience
• Bill refers the documentaGon
○ h^ps://docs.wso2.com/display/APICloud/WSO2+API
+Cloud+DocumentaGon
• There are docs and videos with step-by-step
instrucGons

15. API Cloud Experience
• Creates the api
• Creates two virtual applicaGons and subscribes to
the api
• Gets two set of tokens
• Invokes via the API Console

16. API Cloud Experience

17. Changes in web and mobile apps
• Bill changes the webapp to invoke the managed api
• Develops a mobile app which uses the api

18. Support
• Docs helped him a lot
• Whenever docs couldn’t
help him, he contacted the
cloud team via the support
channel
○ Direct emails
○ Submit support requests
○ InteracGve chat

19. Becoming a paid user
• Trial was going to expire
• Bill requested an extension for the trial
• Acer tesGng the api with the apps, he decided to
become a paid user
○ It starts at USD 100 / month
○ Bill pays with John’s credit card and upgrades the account

20. Upgrading the account

21. StaGsGcs

22. Expanding the API audience
• John is impressed.
• He wants the travel sites to also book rides with him
○ Via his API
• John wants to adverGse his api

23. CustomizaGons
• John wants his own URL
○ He has already bought johnscabs.com
○ His API Store - apistore.johnscabs.com
• He wants the api store to look like his website
○ Bill design a theme to match the site and uploads it to the
cloud

24. Subscriber Self Sign-Up
• John’s API Store is adverGsed
• Third parGes are interested in using the APIs
• They want to sign-up to the API store
○ Self sign-up is available
○ Sign-ups are approved by Bill or John

25. Changing the API
• Created versions of the api
• Hosted different versions of the webapp poinGng to
the api versions
○ App cloud allows it
• Marked the version as default when it is ready
○ Both for webapp and api

26. Happy
• John is happy
○ Business is growing
○ It only costs Bill’s salary and USD 100 / month
• Bill is happy
○ No need to worry about maintenance
○ He got rewarded for his work :)

27. What’s Next on WSO2 Cloud
• IntegraGon Cloud
Supports cloud-to-cloud
integraGon scenarios
ESB as a Service
• IdenGty Cloud
SSO to begin with

28. Thank You!
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