What does being "cloud native" mean? In this session, presented at the Austin Microservices Meetup, I explore the four levels of the ODCA Cloud Application Maturity Model and discuss how microservices and containers can help transform applications.

1. Cloud-native Application Maturity Model
Microservices & Containers - Austin

2. Confidential 2August 14, 2016
High-performing IT organizations
2016 State of DevOps Report
https://puppet.com/resources/white-paper/2016-state-of-devops-report
200x
more frequent
deploys
3x
fewer
failures
24x
faster
recovery
2,555x
shorter lead
times
2.2x
higher employee
satisfaction

3. Dev -> QA -> Ops
Infrastructure as Pets
Traditional apps
DevOps
Infrastructure as Cattle
Cloud-native applications
Few releases per year Continuous Delivery

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Topics
1. The Cloud-native Application Maturity Model
2. How containers and microservices help
3. Managing cloud-native applications

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About me
1994
• Founder at Nirmata
• Developer (Java, Go, JavaScript, C++); learning Ops
• Centralized management of complex distributed systems

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Cloud-native Application Maturity Model
We are
here
ODCA Best Practices: Architecting Cloud-Aware Applications Rev. 1.0

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CAMM Level 0: Virtualized
• Tiered applications in Virtual Machines
o Application runs on virtual infrastructure
o Application can be deployed using a script or installer
• Handoffs: Dev  QA  Ops
OS
App
VM
OS
App
VM
OS
App
VM

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CAMM Level 1: Loosely Coupled
Applications are decoupled from networks
Applications are decoupled from storage
Application components are service-oriented
(Optional)
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3

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Platform Services
Language Specific
Libraries
Application
Host / Infra. Services
Platform-as-a-Service
Decoupling Applications from Infrastructure
Container Engine
Host / Infra. Services
Container Services
Container Runtime
Application
Container Services

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Through 2018, more than 70% of IT organizations
planning a private PaaS will deploy a container service
(rather than PaaS framework software)
-- Gartner Predicts 2016: PaaS Innovation Continues Unabated

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Cloud-native Application Maturity Model
ODCA Best Practices: Architecting Cloud-Aware Applications Rev. 1.0
PaaS or Container
Services

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CAMM Level 2: Abstracted
Services are stateless
Application is unaware and unaffected by failure of
dependent services
Application is infrastructure agnostic and can run
anywhere
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2
3

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1. Elastic: scales up or down independently of other services
2. Resilient: services provide fault isolation boundaries
3. Composable: uniform APIs and a Service Gateway
4. Minimal: smallest possible set of highly cohesive set of entities
5. Complete: can be deployed and versioned independently
A Microservices-style application is composed of several
services and each service is:
https://dzone.com/articles/microservices-five

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Cloud-native Application Maturity Model
ODCA Best Practices: Architecting Cloud-Aware Applications Rev. 1.0
Microservices
in Containers

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CAMM Level 3: Adaptive
Fully automate application and infrastructure management
Deploy and operate on any cloud
Plan for active-active cloud deployments (future)
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3

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Two emerging trends…
• In-band management: Chef Habitat, Joyent’s Container Pilot, …
• Out-of-band management: IaaS+, Nirmata

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Nirmata

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Why Nirmata?
Software infrastructure is best
delivered “as-a-service”
Cloud-native applications need
cloud-native management
Applications should not be
locked in to a cloud provider
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• Founded Sep 2013 ->
Beta Jan 2015 -> GA 2016!
• Fortune 50 as well as startup
customers in production
• 1M+ pulls; 10K+ managed
containers per month!
• Wide range of apps – from
Enterprise IT to IoT!
we believe….

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Public or
Private Clouds
Adaptive Management for Cloud-Native Applications
nirmata
any cloud – any device
Connected Devices
Data Centers
DevOps
IT Ops
fully automated deployment – operations - optimization

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Network
Infrastructure as a Service
HostsOpen Container Runtime
Build – CI/CD
Source Control
Image Registry
Storage
Compute
Security
Host Mgmt
Scheduling & Orchestration
Policy-Based Resource Management
Application Lifecycle Management
Microservices Infrastructure
Monitoring
Logging
Remediation
Alarms
Cloud Virtual Physical
Access Control

21. Demo

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Cloud-native Application Maturity Model
ODCA Best Practices: Architecting Cloud-Aware Applications Rev. 1.0
Adaptive
Management

23. 23Accelerating DevOps: Automating application lifecycle using containers | March 15, 2016
13,327
Containers Deployed
Customer Profile – Fortune 500 Enterprise
95
Running Environments
500% growth
since Jan 2016!
Fast, repeatable, and predictable deployments!
48X
productivity gain
82,246
hrs saved over 12 mos

24. Online Meetup – Thursday 10:00 AM Pacific
Containerizing Traditional Applications
www.meetup.com/microservices

25. 15 day trial
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26. Thank you!
jim@nirmata.com - @JimBugwadia