Webinar presentation by Mark Prichard, Technology Evangelist at CloudBees: how to customize the runtime stacks used with Platform-as-a-Service

1. Custom Runtimes for the Cloud
ClickStarts and ClickStacks Explained
Mark Prichard, CloudBees
February 22, 2013

2. Today’s Presenter
Mark Prichard
Evangelist & Senior Director of
Product Management

3. Using WebEx
Questions?
Submit via the control
panel at any time
during the presentation.

4. CloudBees on One Slide
cloudbees.com
Jenkins
Master
Test
Stage
Build
Code
Jenkins
Executor
ForgeRepositories
Git
SVN
mvn
Development
Services
(DEV@cloud)
Developer and
Operations
Interaction
End User
Interaction
Runtime
Services
(RUN@cloud)
CloudBees
API
Grand
Central
Web
Console
SDK
Session
Clustering
MySQL
Router
Application
Partner
Ecosystem
Multi-
Tenanted
Dedicated
Amazon Web Services
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5. ClickStarts –
Cloud Projects in a Box
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6. • I am starting to work with in a new project and need to
get going quickly
• I need to learn about a new framework and want to
learn using a working example
• I want to hand off my project to a customer
• I want to formally capture the work I have done so
others in my team can re-use it
Typical Problems
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ClickStarts to the rescue!
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https://github.com/CloudBees-community/java-rest-backbone

7. By The Way – Do You Like Our New Dashboard?
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8. cloudbees.com
Use this
clickstart.json to
create a working app!
The Magic Behind ClickStarts
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CloudBees
Git
Repo
Database
Build/Test
db:create
App
Partner
Service
Partner
Service
CloudBees
API
Grand
Central
Web
Console
Bind
Bind
Trigger
Deploy
Wow! At your
service
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9. cloudbees.com
Modifying an App after ClickStarting
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CloudBees
Git
Repo
Database
Build/Test
App
Partner
Service
Partner
Service
Bind
Bind
Trigger
DeployI want to make some
changes!
Local Git
Repo
gitcommit
Changes
Wow! At your
service

10. Let’s Take a Closer Look – Java EE 6 Web
Profile
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11. What Actually Happened There?
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https://grandcentral.cloudbees.com/#CB_clickstart=https://raw.github.c
om/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example/master/clickstart.json

12. ClickStart.json: Putting It All Together
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{
"id": "jboss-db-example",
"name": "Java EE 6 Web Profile",
"source": "git://github.com/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example.git",
"description" : "A full Java EE 6 Web Profile application, with a database and continuous deployment",
"doc-url" : "https://github.com/CloudBees-community/jboss-db-example/blob/master/readme.md",
"icon" : "https://d3ko533tu1ozfq.cloudfront.net/clickstart/ee_icon.png",
"app-package" : "https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudbees-downloads/clickstart/jboss-db-example.war",
"supported-by" : "cloudbees",
"order" : 1,
"runtime": {
"type": "jboss"
},
"databases": [
{
"type": "mysql",
"alias": "ExampleDS"
}
],
"build-with-jenkins": {
"template": {
"type": "maven",
"options": {
}
}
}
}

13. On Demand: Repo, Build Job, App and Database
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14. ClickStacks –
Customized & Non-Java Runtimes
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15. How an App Becomes a Stack– Java Example
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Java App (jar)
Infrastructure
Java VM
Java APICloudBees-Curated
Stack
User-Created
CloudBees-Curated
Java EE App (war)
Infrastructure
Java VM
Java APICloudBees-Curated
Stack
User-Created
CloudBees-Curated
Java EE (jars)
• Interaction is with the JavaVM and API
• Deployment unit is jar file
• Interaction is with the Java EE Server
• Deployment unit is war file
• Extensions thru container contract and
vendor facilities
Java Runtime Stack Java EE Runtime Stack
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16. Frictionless Extension and Reuse
Customer &
SI Managed
Community
Managed
CloudBees
Curated
Fork
Push Push Clone
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17. • Tomcat
• JBoss
• Java
• Tomcat 7
• JBoss 7.1
• Glassfish 3
• node.js
• Play 2
• SBT
• Web Machine
Curated vs. Early Access Community Stacks
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CloudBees-Curated Early Access Community
Ref: http://developer.cloudbees.com/bin/view/RUN/ClickStack

18. • Tomcat
– Tomcat 6
– Tomcat 7 (Default for new)
• JBoss
– JBoss 7
– JBoss 7.1 (Default for new)
• Java
• Glassfish 3
• node.js
• Play 2
• SBT
• Web Machine
• PHP
• Drupal
Transition Underway from Community to Curated
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CloudBees-Curated Early Access Community

19. ClickStacks and ClickStarts – Better Together!
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• Interaction is with Apache and PHP
• Deployment unit is PHP and HTML
files
• Interaction is with Drupal CMS
• Deployment unit is a web site Profile
• Extensions thru modules, libraries
PHP Runtime Stack Drupal Runtime Stack
PHP App (php)
Infrastructure
CloudBees-Curated
Stack
User-Created
CloudBees-Curated
Apache
PHP Interpreter
Site Profile (zip)
Infrastructure
CloudBees-Curated
Stack
User-Created
CloudBees-Curated
Drupal (zip)
Apache
PHP Interpreter

20. More Information
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• Introduction to ClickStarts
• Develop your own ClickStart
• Introduction to ClickStacks
• Develop your own ClickStack
• Genapp Framework Documentation
• CloudBees-community on GitHub
• Please come to our Hangout to ask questions

21. • Register on CloudBees.com, it is free and complete:
– Deploy your app in the cloud!
– Store your data
– Do your build & test in the cloud
• Jenkins as a Service
• Repositories: Git, SVN, Maven/DAV
• Eclipse plugin
– Free program for FOSS projects
https://grandcentral.cloudbees.com/account/signup
Try It for Free
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