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TRANSFORMATION
It Takes a Platform
A Cloud-native Application Platform
Cornelia Davis
CTO, Transformation Practice
Pivotal
@cdavisafc

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Enable Speed to Market
Deliver Better Customer
Experience and More Value
Engage Workforce
Why Transform?

3.
TIME
EXPERIENCE
&
EFFICIENCY
Traditional IT
Disruptors
INNOVATION GAP
IaaS
+ Automation
What does it take to compete?
• Agile, Developer Productivity, TDD, Pairing
• A Platform that supports Continuous Delivery
• Streamlines the Devops cycle
• Optimizes for Modern Application Architectures
• and more…

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Continuous Delivery
Business Drivers Decide Release
(not technical readiness)

5.
A Seattle book store
deploys code, on average,
every second

6.
Why?
SPECULATION

7.
Risk Accumulation
SPECULATION
RISK

8.
Experimentation Reduces Risk
SPECULATION
ITERATION ITERATION ITERATION ITERATION ITERATION

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Devops
Eliminate Friction

10.
Obstacles
• Silos: Dev, QA, Operations is
typical. No shared common goal
• Dissimilar Environments - “It works
on my machine”
• Risky Deployments: Manual steps,
done “off hours”
• Changes are treated as an
exception, not the norm
→Firefighting
• Processes designed around these
obstacles

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It Takes a Platform
People
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/10/operations-is-a-competitive-ad.html

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Application Dial Tone
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Emits application “dial tone”
• Config
• Runtime
• Logs
• Metrics
• Health Management
• Security
• Operations
Your Application
Code
Virtualized
Infrastructure

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Enabling Devops - Teams Delivering Outcomes
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Database
Web
Server
Messaging
Your Application
Code
Virtualized
Infrastructure
PAAS
Platform Team
Application Team
• Deploys platform
• Makes standard runtimes and services
available
• Monitors platform
• Scales platform (ensuring
sufficient capacity)
• Upgrades platform with zero-downtime
• Creates deployable
artifact
• Config Prod environment
• Deploys application to Prod
• Monitors application
• Scales application (capacity)
• Deploys new app version with
zero downtime.

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Essential Elements to Enabling Devops
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• Complete test suites
RUN in DEV, TEST and PROD
• Deployment construction
SINGLE DEPLOYABLE ARTIFACT

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Single Deployable Artifact
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Commit
Tests
Integration
Tests
Deployable
Artifact
Deploy to CF
Test Env
Deploy to
Prod
• Developer crafted (before impl.)
• Stubs/mocks external services
• Developer executed (before commit)
• CI executed (after commit)
(after commit)
• Developer or QA crafted
• CI executed
• Runtime context (buildpack applied)
• Binds to test services (DB, messaging, etc.)
• “cf push”
• Runtime context (buildpack applied)
• Binds to test services (DB, messaging, etc.)
• Periodic smoke tests
• “cf push”
• Runtime context (buildpack applied)
• Binds to prod services (DB,
messaging, etc.)
• Periodic smoke tests
• Monitoring
? ?

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Essential Elements to Enabling Devops
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• Complete test suites
RUN in DEV, TEST and PROD
• Deployment construction
SINGLE DEPLOYABLE ARTIFACT
• Self-service, Rapid Provisioning/
Deprovisioning
AGILITY
• Environment parity
NO MORE “It works on my machine”

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Environment Parity
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… …
Prod
Acceptance
CI

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Essential Elements to Enabling Devops
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• Complete test suites
RUN in DEV, TEST and PROD
• Deployment construction
SINGLE DEPLOYABLE ARTIFACT
• Self-service, Rapid Provisioning/
Deprovisioning
AGILITY
• Environment parity
NO MORE “It works on my machine”
• Immutable Infrastructure
NO SNOWFLAKES!!!
• Blue/Green Deployments
ENABLE PULLBACK

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Immutable Infrastructure - Deploy From Scratch
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Router
Blobstore Cloud Controller
Messaging
Cell Cell Cell Pivotal
Cloud Foundry
Runtime (ERS)
Access
App

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Low Risk, Blue/Green Deploys
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Essential Elements to Enabling Devops
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• Complete test suites
RUN in DEV, TEST and PROD
• Deployment construction
SINGLE DEPLOYABLE ARTIFACT
• Self-service, Rapid Provisioning/
Deprovisioning
AGILITY
• Environment parity
NO MORE “It works on my machine”
• Immutable Infrastructure
NO SNOWFLAKES!!!
• Blue/Green Deployments
ENABLE PULLBACK
• Self-healing, elastic runtime
EXPECT CHANGE

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Self-Healing
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Amend
(Re)deploy
(Re)configure
(Re)connect
Monitor
Current
State Desired
State
Cloud Foundry manages
transformations between existing and
desired system states, using
immutable infrastructure.

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Application Instances and Availability Zones
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Router
Cell
Cell
Cell
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime
Cell
Cell
Cell
Zone 1 Zone 2 Application instances
are evenly distributed
over two availability
zones.
Loosing an AZ keeps
instances running and
available.

24.
Failed Application Instances Replaced
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Router
Blobstore Cloud Controller
etcd
Cell Cell Cell
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime
Access
App
DB
Service
credentialscreds
Converger & Auctioneer
Desired State
credscreds
Actual State

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Essential Elements to Enabling Devops
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• Complete test suites
RUN in DEV, TEST and PROD
• Deployment construction
SINGLE DEPLOYABLE ARTIFACT
• Self-service, Rapid Provisioning/
Deprovisioning
AGILITY
• Environment parity
NO MORE “It works on my machine”
• Immutable Infrastructure
NO SNOWFLAKES!!!
• Blue/Green Deployments
ENABLE PULLBACK
• Self-healing, elastic runtime
EXPECT CHANGE
• Self-healing, evolving platform
AS A PRODUCT

26.
Application Teams Focus on Their Products…
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cmtcmtcmt v201cmt cmt cmt cmt v202 cmt
… …
Prod
Acceptance
CI

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… And Platform Teams on Theirs
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cmt v201cmt cmt cmt cmt v202 cmt
… …
Prod
Acceptance
CI

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… And Platform Teams on Theirs
8
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… …
App
Platform
CVE
Prod
Acceptance

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PCF – Each Layer Upgradable with Zero Downtime
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* Devs may bring a custom buildpack
runtime layer*
OS image
application layer
linux host & kernel
App container
PCF Supported
Dev Supported
• Platform Provided
• CVEs addressed by Pivotal
• Canary-style, zero-
downtime upgrades
• Platform or Developer
Provided
• CVEs addressed by Pivotal
(for Platform Provided)
• Blue/Green deployments
• Developer/App team
provided
• Blue/Green deployments

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Essential Elements to Enabling Devops
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• Complete test suites
RUN in DEV, TEST and PROD
• Deployment construction
SINGLE DEPLOYABLE ARTIFACT
• Self-service, Rapid Provisioning/
Deprovisioning
AGILITY
• Environment parity
NO MORE “It works on my machine”
• Immutable Infrastructure
NO SNOWFLAKES!!!
• Blue/Green Deployments
ENABLE PULLBACK
• Self-healing, elastic runtime
EXPECT CHANGE
• Self-healing, evolving platform
AS A PRODUCT

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Cloud-native Application
Design
Scale and Resilience

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Why?
• Scale Applications
• Scale Teams
• Independent Development Cycles
• Experimentation
• Resilience

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Example: Microservice Architecture
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UI
JS (Angular)
Customers
Stores
• How do you configure the many
services?
• How do you support multiple
versions?
• How does a consumer (UI,
Customers) find the service
instances (that are moving
around)?
• How do you deal with the failure
modes introduced with
distributed systems?

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36 http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/4/8/microservices-not-a-free-lunch.html

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Example: Microservice Services
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Spring Cloud Services
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Spring Cloud Services
Config Server Service Registry Circuit Breaker
Dashboard

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Cloud Foundry is…
The world’s leading open source platform-as-a-service.
• Supported by dozens of major organizations
• Language and framework agnostic
• Manages both VMs and containers
• Orchestrates both applications and data services
• Abstracts Infrastructure
Founded and commercialized by Pivotal, Inc.

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The Cloud Foundry Foundation: An Open Industry Standard
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GOLD
SILVER

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Thank you!
Cornelia Davis
CTO, Transformation Practice
Pivotal
@cdavisafc