High level overview of Cloud Foundry - Open Source Platform as a Service technology, community and path to open governance

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Cloud Foundry
Christopher Ferris, IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO Cloud Interoperability
chrisfer@us.ibm.com
@christo4ferris

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Cloud Services for Mobile in Minutes
IBM Codename: BlueMix Mobile Services Join the
open beta
www.bluemix.net
Push
Create and schedule push notifications for
iOS and Android devices to engage users
when they aren’t using the app. User
tagging enables the user to select desired
push topics.
Server-side Code
Host mobile and web applications and
accelerate development time of server
side scripts by leveraging the mobile app
template and SDK. Powered by Node.js
Mobile Application Security
Provides a basic app security
framework - enabling the developer
to block access to apps on specific
devices.
Mobile Data
Enhance your mobile apps through simple
to use SDKs to save shared data in a
scalable, managed database as a service.
Powered by Cloudant.
Mobile Quality Assurance
Instrument apps to capture tester and live-user experiences, including context-aware
crash log and in-app bug reports, in-app user feedback and insightful and metrics.
Shared Mobile Backend with Data and Security
(SDKs for iOS, Android and JavaScript)
Promote customer engagement, quality, and feedback

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IBM Bluemix provides Composable Services Development
Environment Runtime on the go
The developer can chose any language runtime or
bring their own. Just upload your code and go.
DevOps
Development, testing, monitoring, deployment and
logging tools allow the developer to run the entire
application
APIs and Services
A catalog of open source, IBM and third party APIs
services allow a developer to stitch together an
application in minutes.
Cloud Integration
Build hybrid environments. Connect to on-
premises systems of record plus other public and
private clouds. Expose your own APIs to your
developers.
Extend SaaS Apps
Drop in SaaS App SDKs and extend to new use
cases (e.g,. Mobile, Analytics, Web)
!

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Why Cloud Foundry

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On Being a Developer
http://xkcd.com/303/
Shamelessly plagiarized from
Dr Nic Willims

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§ Developers can focus on development
and not infrastructure plumbing
§ Separate the concerns of AppDev and
Operations
§ Eliminate the bottleneck of provisioning
and deployment processes
The Need for an Application Centric Layer

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Agile Composition and Continuous Delivery
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Create
app
Add
database
service
Extract
social
media
data
into
database
Add
social
analy;cs
service
Add
Monitoring
service
instance
Secure
the
service
1
ITERATE
TASK:
Create a secure application that
analyses sentiment about certain
topics in social media

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Why Cloud Foundry?
§ Deploy in seconds not weeks or months
§ No need to talk to anyone else
§ Polyglot runtimes
§ Java, Node.js, Ruby, Python, Go, PHP, …
§ Easily integrate internal and 3rd party services/APIs
§ Open Source runtime platform
§ IaaS independent – runs in the cloud or on-premise

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Background
§ Early 2011: Open Source effort initiated by VMware
§ Focused on addressing the cloud market beyond IaaS
§ April 2013: Pivotal created from EMC & VMware around SW
and OSS assets including Cloud Foundry, Rabbit, Spring, …
§ November 2013: Pivotal CF, commercial version of Cloud
Foundry released
§ February 2014: IBM announces BlueMix, making use of Cloud
Foundry
§ 2014 and beyond: Rapidly growing ecosystem of OpenSource
contributors, consulting companies & commercial, value-add
ISVs

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Building a Vibrant Community

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Who is using Cloud Foundry?

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Fostering the Cloud Foundry community
TOTAL CONTRIBUTORS
LINES OF CODE
PULL REQ / WK COMPANIES
1,274
Average per month
2013 average: 133
12mo average: 98
Lifetime average: 58
711k
50+ 43
COMMUNITY PRIORITIES
• Establish a Cloud Foundry Governance Structure
• Name an advisory board of 5-8 founding members
• Expand the governance structure to support the
broad partner ecosystem
• Increase transparency
• Enable and encourage participation
• Feedback on the Cloud Foundry roadmap
• Advise on daily operations, community assets
• Guidance on the Cloud Foundry charter: scope,
definition of cloud profiles
• Planning for semi-annual Platform Conference
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
ADVISORY BOARD
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IBM, Piston, CenturyLink,
Intel, ActiveState,
CloudCredo, Stark & Wayne,
Canonical
The open platform as a service providing a faster and easier way to
develop, test, deploy and scale apps

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Community
Community Advisory Board Members Top Community Advancements
• Community Advisory Board Forum meetings
• Open Dojo program
• Public story trackers
• Open Inception process
• Incubation process
• AdminUI
• Spiff
• Diego
• Contribution guidelines
Top Cloud Foundry Advancements
• New Lighting Fast CLI
• Loggregator
• High Availability
• Elastic Runtime
• v2 Service Broker API
ü SSO Dashboard
ü Service Brokers can now be apps!
• Eclipse Tools
• Clustered NATS
Pull Requests Since Sept 2013

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San Francisco
Cloud Foundry Summit
www.cfsummit.com

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Prelude to Foundation
Feb 24, 2014 “The establishment of the independent Cloud Foundry Foundation to develop
and promote an open source platform-as-a-service project is an important step towards
building an industry-wide open cloud architecture. To support this, IBM will join the new
foundation at the Platinum level and take an active role in developing and promoting the
Cloud Foundry project.” – Dr. Angel Diaz, Vice President Open Technology and Cloud
Performance Solutions, IBM
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors

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Feedback
Overwhelmingly positive reactions on twitter, FB, LinkedIn, etc
All press/analyst coverage was positive to neutral
Ben Kepes @benkepes‬‪‫‏‬ Feb 24
New on Forbes from me.... - Game On - Pivotal Announces the Cloud Foundry Foundation ‪http://ln.is/j.mp/ar2iu
The Register
Cloud Foundry laps up attention in EMC, IBM, HP, Rackspace, SAP, VMware love-in
Jack Clark
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/cloud_foundry_foundation/
The Cloud Foundry open-source project looks set to become a standard piece of technology in the thriving distributed systems ecosystem: its main backer, Pivotal, has
persuaded IBM, HP, SAP and Rackspace to join a new foundation dedicated to the tech. Today's announcement of the launch of a formal open governance model
and associated Foundation for Cloud Foundry represents a major bet by the involved vendors that it will be Pivotal's Cloud Foundry – and not Rackspace's Solum
nor Red Hat's OpenShift – that defines the platform layer of cloudy data centers.
VentureBeat
Why open-source cloud builder Cloud Foundry is about to get more popular
Jordan Novet
http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/23/why-open-source-cloud-builder-cloud-foundry-is-about-to-get-more-popular/
Cloud Foundry, an open-source cloud-computing project for quickly building and running applications, could become a lot more popular in the months to come. That’s
because it won’t be under the rule of a single company anymore. Today Pivotal, Cloud Foundry‘s “steward,” announced that it will work with a bunch of other big
technology companies to launch the Cloud Foundry Foundation, effectively letting more people decide the direction of the project. EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Rackspace, SAP, and VMware are on board with Pivotal as founding platinum sponsors of the project, meaning they’ll put money toward the development of the
new organization. ActiveState and CenturyLink are also founding sponsors, with a “gold” level of participation. EMC and its subsidiary VMware gave birth to
Pivotal, but the lineup of participating companies is nonetheless impressive.

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Path to Open Governance of Cloud Foundry
4Q2013
1Q2014
2Q2014
3Q2014
Dec 2013
IBM/Pivotal agree on
timeline and roadmap
Develop Founding Partner
Outreach Plan
Jan 2014
Finalize agreement for
Founding Partners
Foundation Governance
Framework agreed
Feb 2014
Announce Platinum
Sponsors
May 2014
Draft Governance Model
Announce w/All Founding
Partners
Jun 2014
CF Summit 2014
Intend to publish
Governance Model
Aug 2014
Intend to have legal
establishment of org
Sep 2014
Intend to launch Foundation
and new governance
Cloud Foundry event
Initial Foundation board
meeting

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Building a Kicka** PaaS Platform

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Cloud Foundry Architecture

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Recent development progress
§ New Lightning Fast CLI
§ Native installer for Windows/Mac/Linux
§ Super Fast and easier to use
§ Faster Parallel Deploys and Updates
§ Awesome Logging (Loggregator)
§ User configurable syslog drains for all app related logs
§ All app related events are in the log
§ CF components all support syslog draining

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Recent development progress
§ High Availability
§ Removing all SPOF in CF Runtime
§ Tolerate Outage of a full AZ (Thanks IBM)!
§ Elastic Runtime
§ Easy buildpack management (Thanks IBM!)
§ No internet required for install/run/update
§ Usage events(chargeback/showback)
§ Support large (>1G) apps
§ Clustered NATS!
§ Improved logging/debug capabilities
§ Diego: staging is working!

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Recent development progress
§ Services
§ v2 Service Broker API
§ 1-way API instead of 2-way
§ Service Brokers can now be apps!
§ SSO Dashboard using OAuth2
§ Audit Events
§ Community Support for more clouds (BOSH CPIs)
§ Google Compute Engine
§ Apache CloudStack
§ CenturyLink/Savvis
§ VMware vCloud

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Recent development progress
§ Eclipse tools v1.6.1 released
§ Joint IBM/Pivotal development
§ Detection of existing instances to selected spaces
§ Support for Server-wide publish.
§ Support for deploying non-faceted modules.
§ Various fixes
§ Framework changes to better support other CF vendors
§ Identity
§ Easy LDAP / Active Directory integration
§ Single Login server for User DB, LDAP/AD, SAML
§ Easy to skin

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What’s next?
§ Elastic Runtime
§ Enable other app stacks such as .NET, Docker, ?
§ Many process types (web/worker/etc) in a single app
§ Placement pools for isolation and access to specialized
hardware
§ Blob store caching
§ Identity
§ Map user Groups to OAuth Scopes to derive runtime
roles
§ OpenStack Keystone/UAA integration

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What’s next?
§ Monitoring
§ JMX Support for System Metrics
§ Agent-less metrics for applications (Tput, Latency, Error
Rates)
§ Pluggable multi-tenant Metrics and Logging
§ More Clouds
§ Standalone CPI (add CPIs more easily)
§ Service Mesh
§ Verizon

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Get Involved

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Get Involved
§ Try it!
§ http://cloudfoundry.org/about/index.html
§ Participate
§ Monthly Community Advisory Board open forums last Wednesday of every
month
§ Subscribe to vcap-dev and bosh-developer Google groups
§ Find or start a meetup group http://cloud-foundry.meetup.com/all/
§ Contribute
§ cloudfoundry - https://github.com/cloudfoundry
§ cloudfoundry-incubator - https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator
§ cloudfoundry-community - https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community

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Thank you!