1. App Factory
Re invent App Delivery
Re‐invent App Delivery
November 2012
November 2012

2. WSO2 App Factory
WSO2 App Factory
• WSO2 uses an agile, iterative development process
WSO2 il it ti d l t
• v1.0 is a Minimum Viable Product
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_prod
http://en wikipedia org/wiki/Minimum viable prod
uct
• Just enough features to allow a subset of users to
deploy the system in production
• Each further release is aimed at meeting specific
user requirements
user requirements
• Feature list we present today may not be in 1.0
• You can follow progress on architecture@wso2.org
You can follow progress on architecture@wso2 org
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3. Agenda
• What is – Cloud, Paas, Cloud EcoSystem
• What is App Factory
• Features
• Architecture
• Benefits
• Demo
• Use cases
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4. Cloud Technologies
Cloud Technologies
• Stateless services
• Rapid provisioning
Rapid provisioning
• Fine‐grained • Flexible topology
metering Rapid • High Quality of Service
• Billing Elasticity
• Reporting
Measured service On‐
or pay per use demand
self‐service
self service
• Flexible workload assignment
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Resource pooling
• St d d
Standard service offerings
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• Quick startup and automation • Multi‐tenancy
• Resource utilization
• Shared, virtual infrastructure
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5. PaaS
• Hosted application environment for building and deploying
applications
Environment for building and
Environment for building and
Deploying Apps
+
Cloud Characteristics
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6. Cloud Ecosystem
Cloud Ecosystem
• Cloud ecosystem
Cloud ecosystem
– Other integrators, partners, software, third parties and anything in
their environments that has a bearing the cloud
• PaaS Ecosystem
– Developer tooling Ecosystem
– Devops tooling
– Governance tooling Core
Cloud
– Life cycle management
Life cycle management
– Developer community
– Consumers
– Infrastructure services
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7. What is WSO2 App Factory ?
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8. WSO2 App Factory
WSO2 App Factory
• Platform for managed application development
• Support application from cradle to grave
• Manage infrastructure
• Provide automated configurable devops and governance
• Downloadable VM
• Hosted as a cloud service
• 100% Open source – Apache2 licence
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9. WSO2 App Factory unifies
Open Source DevOps, Agile, and Cloud
Open Source DevOps, Agile, and Cloud
Project and Team
Management
Software
Software
Continuous
development
Deployment
workflow
Governance and
Test Automation
Compliance
Continuous Development
p
Integration Dashboards
App Factory
Continuous Build Develop Code
Source Control Issue Tracking
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10. WSO2 App Factory unifies
Open Source DevOps, Agile, and Cloud
Open Source DevOps, Agile, and Cloud
Project and Team
Management
Software
Continuous App Factory
development
Deployment
workflow
Governance and App Factory
Test Automation
Compliance
Continuous Development
Integration App Factory Dashboards App Factory
Continuous Build Develop Code
Source Control Issue Tracking
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11. WSO2 App Factory Solution Components
App Command
WSO2
WSO2 DevOps‐
DevOps
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Cloud PaaS
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12. WSO2 App Factory Development Environment
App Store
Development Cloud Test Cloud Production Cloud
ed APIs & Data Sources
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Stratos Platform Stratos Platform Stratos Platform
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App Command: Developer & Management Portal
Lifec
Manage
Source Code Continuous Build Issue Content
Management Cloud Forums
Tracker PaaS
Developer Studio
Developer Studio
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13. Features
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14. Features : Application Creation
Features : Application Creation
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2
Dev Test Prod
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15. Features : Facilitate regulatory compliance
• Facilitate regulatory compliance
• Extension point to enforce an approval process
• Eg : App creation
– Developer submits application, and can track approval process
– Review gates and approval checklist items
– Automated build test execution and versioning
Automated build, test execution and versioning
Do action
Do action
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16. Features : Configurable Governance
Features : Configurable Governance
• Governs any kind of server/system configuration
• M
Manages the full promotion lifecycle spanning across development,
h f ll i lif l i d l
testing, staging and production environments
Test
Dev
• Deeply integrates with all WSO2 Carbon middleware products

17. Feature : Configurable Governance
Feature : Configurable Governance
• Uses SCXML – state
chart XML
• Compose a new
Lifecycle in Greg
• App Factory will work
acco d g y
accordingly
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18. Features : Automated DevOps
Features : Automated DevOps
Processes that require collaboration and coordination between software
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development teams with IT operations team.
• Self service project and policy configuration
– Via project configuration portals
– Security, service levels, frameworks, usage, topology
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• Automated platform provisioning
– Via service tier templates
– F
Framework and policy enforcement points (PEPs)
k d li f t i t (PEP )
• Process automation
– Continuous build, test, and deployment
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– Code promotion and synchronization across environments and servers
• Dependency analysis and impact analysis
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19. Features :CXO Dashboard
Communicate project status
• Constant communication and coordination
• What applications exist?
• When will an application be delivered?
• Overcome SOA Anti patterns
Overcome SOA Anti‐patterns
• Not Invented Here (NIH), Tight Coupling and Build again

20. Features : Shared Infrastructure
Features : Shared Infrastructure
• Shared elastic runtime for all applications
Shared elastic runtime for all applications
• Shared used of source repositories, build farm, testing servers
and more.
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21. Features : Integrated Developer Experience
Features : Integrated Developer Experience
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22. Features : Dependency Management
Features : Dependency Management
App A
pp App A
pp App A
pp
foo db foo db foo db
Dev Test Prod
Sandbox Production
foo foo
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23. Features : Dependency Management : bar url
Features : Dependency Management : “bar” url
• Dev http://a.com/test/weather
• Test http://a.com/test/weather
• Production http://a.com/weather
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24. Features : Inbuilt WSO2 API Manager
Integration
WSO2
App
Factory
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25. Features : Versioning Strategy
Features : Versioning Strategy
• Automatic versioning
Automatic versioning
• Configurable versioning strategy
• Versions are included in dashboards
Versions are included in dashboards
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26. Features : Extensibility
Features : Extensibility
• Customize aspects
– UIs
– Life Cycle
Life Cycle
– Handlers
– Workflows – Every action goes through a work flow
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– Plugins
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27. Architecture
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28. Extensible Architecture of App Factory
Extensible Architecture of App Factory
• picture
UI ‐ Jaggery
Workflow – BPEL
Service Layer
Service Layer
Plugins
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29. BPEL and Extensibility
BPEL and Extensibility
• BPEL – Business Process Execution language
• All actions go through an empty BPEL
• Add human tasks, new actions to BPEL
– Regulatory compliance checks
– A
Approval processes
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– New service calls
• The work flow approach allows to
The work flow approach allows to
– Develop any application
– Deploy to any server
– Selective customization and governing of any action
– Do anything!
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30. Extensible Architecture of App Factory
Extensible Architecture of App Factory
App Creation
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31. WSO2 App Factory Demo
WSO2 App Factory Demo
1) Access developer portal
2) Create a project
3) Connect with development cloud
4) Write application code
5) Use SDLC tooling
6) Promote application
7) Dependency Management – Using different databases
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32. Benefits
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33. WSO2 App Factory Overall Benefits
• For developers
– Simplifies project setup, provisioning, and development
lifecycle activities
– Works with leading development tooling (i.e. SVN, Git,
Junit, Maven, Jenkins and Redmine) and IDE (i.e. Eclipse,
J it M J ki d R d i ) d IDE (i E li
IDEA, Rational)

34. WSO2 App Factory Overall Benefits
WSO2 App Factory Overall Benefits
• For development managers
– Manage project lifecycle
– Enforce compliance
– Ensures projects follow governance model and best
practices
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35. WSO2 App Factory Overall Benefits
WSO2 App Factory Overall Benefits
• For the CIO and Executive IT management
– Development dashboards deliver at a glance view of
• application status,
• lifecycle, activity, and health, trend
– Change Business‐IT conversations and dynamics
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36. App Factory & Cloud Ecosystem
Middleware
Source Code
WSO2 Management
PaaS
App Factory
SDLC Tools
PaaS Framework
Github
Gith b
CollabNet
Atlassian
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37. App Factory in Cloud
App Factory in Cloud
• Creates a holistic PaaS ecosystem
• Instantly provision infrastructure
• Shared infrastructure
Sh d i f t t
• Enforces regulatory compliance
• Reduce application proliferation
Reduce application proliferation
• Consolidate 100s and 1000s of assets based on business domain
• Increase application re‐use
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38. WSO2 App Factory
Modernizes your
IT Infrastructure
IT Infrastructure
Partner and Mobile applications
API Management
Lightweight High Performance
Integration
Existing IT infrastructure
Scalable Private Cloud infrastructure
CIO/Management Workflow managed
Dashboard build and deploy Governance
Stratos Multi-tenant elastic and Identity
integration and ESB runtime
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WSO2 AppFactory

39. WSO2 App Factory Platform builds a
digital business ecosystem
digital business ecosystem
Your Core
Business
Business
Capability
Your
Digital 3rd Party
Business
B i Partners
P t
Ecosystem
App
A
Factory
Personalized Platform DevOps Forge
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SaaS Solution and Governance
Cloud
App Store
Deployment
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40. WSO2 Competitive Advantages
• Cloud‐based
– Pl
Pluggable runtime PaaS f
bl i P S framework (Stratos)
k (S )
• Can integrate 3rd party runtimes to app factory
– Available both as PaaS and product for private cloud deployment
p p p y
– Shared elastic infrastructure – cost effective and maximal usage
• DevOps
– Integrates development forge, enterprise workflow best practices, and
Cloud run‐time
– Pl
Pluggable to any SCM/SLDC toolset
bl t SCM/SLDC t l t
• Ships with SVN, Git, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Selenium, Redmine
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41. WSO2 Competitive Advantages
WSO2 Competitive Advantages
• IT Business Focus
– Extensible governance model and compliance
– Project and Portfolio dashboards
Project and Portfolio dashboards
– App Store
• Business Model
Business Model
– Full open source provides broad customer reach
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42. Use Case 1
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43. App Stores
App Stores
600
sands
Thous
500
400
300
200
100
0
Jan‐09 Jan‐10 Jan‐11 Jan‐12
Apple App Store – Growth of Apps
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44. Evolution of Web
Evolution of Web
Web 3.0
Web 3.0
Contextual
Web 2.0 • Data‐driven
Transactional
T i l • M bil
Mobile
• Personalized
Web 1.0 • E‐Commerce
• Self‐Selection
Presentation • Social networks
• Software as a Service
• Web sites
• Brochure‐ware
• E mail
E‐mail
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45. Want to develop/publish an App/API ???
Want to develop/publish an App/API ???
• Where to maintain my
code?
• Where to build it ?
• How to test it ?
• A place to track bugs ?
• Finally submit to App
Store/API Store ?
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46. Use Case 2
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47. Ecosystem Paas
Ecosystem Paas
• Generic Ecosystems
– GAE, Cloud Bees, Heroku
• B i
Business Software
S ft
– SalesForce CRM + Force.com
• Twitter
– “Twitter wants to become a platform on top of which other companies
build like Facebook and Apple”
– “the company wants to move away from a situation in which
developers and companies ‘build off of Twitter, to a world where
people build into Twitter.
people build into Twitter’
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48. How to creating an Ecosystem ???
How to creating an Ecosystem ???
• T h i l Ch ll
Technical Challenges
– Managing infrastructure
– Integration
– Interoperability
– Q
Quality of Service and
y
Traceability across
distributed system
• Business Challenges
Business Challenges
– Controlling use of business
brand
– Monetization and revenue
sharing

49. Use Case 3
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50. Enterprise & Internal Innovation
Enterprise & Internal Innovation
• Universities offering an App development infrastructure to
student projects. Or any entity that wants to support
innovation!!
• Enterprises with many internal/external partners – managed
innovation
Shipping
Logistics Distribution
Platform
Provider
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51. Outdated infrastructure, processes, and tooling
impedes App Delivery
Existing IT infrastructure
Difficult to improve IT processes and app delivery without automation and
governance structure promoting architecture best practice, encouraging
collaboration, reducing process friction, and monitoring compliance

52. How to provide IT as a service?
How to provide IT as a service?
• Enforce governance
• On demand‐
infrastructure
• Provide infrastructure
Provide infrastructure
for 100s of projects in a
cos e ec e a e
cost effective manner
• Provide self‐service
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53. Timelines
• Al h 30th N
Alpha – November 2012
b 2012
• Beta – 20th December 2012
• GA 30th January 2012
GA – January 2012

54. Beta Programme
Beta Programme
http://wso2.com/solutions/app‐factory/

55. Thank you
Thank you
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