1. How to Scale
Continuous
Delivery in the
cloud

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3. Prakash
Nagaswamy
Director - Digital Technology,
Aspire Systems
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Elango Kanakaraji
Head - Product Engineering Services, Aspire Systems
About Aspire
Global technology services firm with core DNA of software engineering Specific areas
of expertise around Software Engineering, Enterprise
Solutions, Testing and Infrastructure & Application Support
focus among Independent Software Vendors and Retail, Distribution
& Vertical Consumer Products
1400+ employees; 100+ active customers
ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001 : 2005 certified
Presence across US, UK, Benelux, Middle East and India
Recognized five consecutive times as “Best Place to Work for” by
GPW Institute

4. Agenda
Development in the Cloud
Developer Productivity
Ticket-based Code and
Release Management
Agile in the Cloud A Case
Scenario
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5. Why Transform Development to the Cloud
Infrastructure for
Development
Hardware resources scaling
Anywhere, anytime access to
hardware resources
Readily available environment
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Development Process
Challenges
Development process
collaboration with distributed
teams and Integrated code
and release management for
project teams
Effective implementation of
key Agile principle – working
software frequently
High turnaround time for
customer requests

6. How the Cloud Helps
Build and
Release
Workspace 2
Workspace 1 Ticket 1 Env
Stage Env
Developers:
Distributed
Sprint team
Testers
Project
Team
Code
Repository
Agile
Management
Workspace 2 Test Env
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7. Developer Productivity
Environment 1
Environment 2
Environment 1
Web Server
IDE
Local
DB
Other
Tools
Additional hardware is needed as requirements
grow
Customer specific environment configuration
becomes time consuming
Testing on customer specific
environment is time consuming
Increase in troubleshooting time for production bugs
Debugging process in target environment is
challenging
Developer
Work Station
Targeted
Environment
Non-Cloud Environment
Develop,
Check-in code,
Build, Deploy
and test
Agile Development
Agile development is restricted to local environment scope
Scaling of Agile development is difficult
More time spent in configuring the virtual instances Lack of
global visibility and collaboration
Obstacles in releasing working software frequently
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8. Developer Productivity
Web/app
server
Test Environment
DB
Continuous
Integration
server
Cloud-based
Source Code
Repository
Development
Environment
with Shared
Resources
Check-
in/out
Auto
Deployment
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Triggers
to start
the build
Releasing high quality
working software more
frequently
Less turnaround
time for customer
requests
Better collaboration
and improved
decision-making
Benefits
Developers
Ticket Environment
Manual Testing and IDE Driven Debugging
Secured
login
using
IDE
Customer Environment
Cloud Environment

9. Ticket-based Code and Release Management
Release
branches
Hot fix
Branch
Feature
branch 1
Feature
branch 1
Dev MasterQA
Feature
for future
release
Start release
branch for
1.0
Tag 0.1
Tag 0.2
Only bug
fixes
Tag 1.0
Major
feature for
next release
Daily
Updates
Serve bug
fixed for
production
hotflix 0.2
Bug fixes
from release
branch may
continuously
merged back
to develop
TIME
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10. Technologies for the Cloud-based Development
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11. Cloud-based Development in Action
OpenShift Gear 1 - Inventory Application OpenShift Gear 2 - Mortgage Application
Distributed Development Team
working on a Shared instance of
the Application Deployment
Distributed Development Team
working on a Shared instance of
the Application Deployment
Web Interface
Web InterfaceSource Code
Repo
Application
Data
Jboss Config
Application Jboss Config
Data Mysql Config
Source Code
Repo
Web Interface
Application
Data
Mysql Config Tomcat Config
Jboss Cartridge
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Shared MySQL Cartridge Tomcat Cartridge

12. Cloud-based Continuous Delivery
Development Environment Sharable Resources
QA Environment UAT / Staging Environment
Common Source Repository
Sharable
MySQL
Cartridge
Cartridge
OpenShift Cloud Setup
Developer working on
open shift environment
Testers working on
open shift environment
Customer
validating
the release
Aspire Cloud
Provisioning Setup
OpenShift Gear 1/Ticket branch
development environment 1
Jboss
Cartridge
Mysql
Cartridge
OpenShift Gear n/Ticket branch
development environment n
Tomcat
Cartridg
e
Mysql
Cartridge
OpenShift Gear 1/Ticket branch
QA environment 1
OpenShift Gear n / Ticket branch
QA environment n
Jboss
Cartridge
Mysql
Cartridge
Tomcat
Cartridge
Mysql
Cartridge
OpenShift Gear n / Ticket branch
UAT environment n
OpenShift Gear 1/ Ticket branch
UAT environment 1
Jboss
Cartridge
Mysql
Cartridge
Tomcat
Cartridg
e
Mysql
Cartridge
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Vagrant Chef

13. Beyond Cloud-based Development
OpenShift Gear 1 - Inventory Application OpenShift Gear 2 - Mortgage Application
Developer working on a instance
of the Application development /
debugging with JPDA
Shared / isolated code branch
for specific release / tickets
Developer working on a instance
of the Application development /
debugging with JPDA
Web Interface
Web Interface Source Code
Repo
Mysql ConfigTomcat ConfigApplication
Data
Source Code
Repo
Source Code
Repo Web Interface
Application
Data
Application
Data
Mysql Config Tomcat Config
Tomcat Config
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Shared MySQL Cartridge Tomcat Cartridge

14. Build your Environment Dynamically
Local Copy in
Openshift VM
Test Scripts Gear
update config
(if applicable)
Application
Chef provisioned
components
On success of
test scripts
Application Gear Data / Config VM
Application
Chef provisioned
components
Cloud Infrastructure
App Data Config
Master branch in
source repository
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Master branch in
source repository
Check-out
merge
change
s
OpenShift QA – Flow Diagram

15. A Case Scenario – A Social Media Monitoring Solution
A leading a leading venture capitalist.
To decide on which company to invest, they relied on the
data collected via social media
As a part of their due diligence process they were in need of
a digital intelligence solution
Scenario Need
A Digital Intelligence Solution
Quick Delivery of the Product
Product life-cycle to be minimized
Scope Involved
UI design and
development
Technology
recommendation
Architecture,
design and
implementation
Social Media integration
& automated
authentication
Automated
data collection
Deployment
architecture and
deployment
Cloud
deployment
and support
Lifecycle
Agile
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16. A Case Scenario – A Social Media Monitoring Solution
Process Involved
Cloud-based Development
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Ticket-based Code and Release Management
Redhat's Open Shift (PAAS) cloud environment integrated
with local IDE
Features and releases through ticket based code and
release management
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment of
builds using Jenkins
Automated Unit test cases to ensure stability of the builds
SONAR to ensure code compliance and minimize errors
Chef integrated with Jenkins to configure all application
updates for production
ServiceNow integrated with Chef to track and optimize
development and deployment automation
On-time release of the product with quality
Automated quality review tools Support
customer tickets right away
Better progress monitoring on Individual
developers
Customer specific testing made much
easier
Zero downtime with Immutable deployment
Better progress monitoring on individual
developers
Features Benefits

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