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VMUG IT Meeting – PI 29/05/2015

News from VMware – Cloud native

application

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Chi sono:

Lino Telera

• System Administrator, VCP4, VCP5-DT, VCP-Cloud,VCP5-DT

• Ex Software developer (C#, Java, PHP, Javascript, Flex)

• @linotelera - it.linkedin.com/pub/lino-telera/9/309/697

• http://www.linoproject.net

• http://about.me/linotelera

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The official announcement

5 December 2014: Container Orchestration on VMware – From Dev

Box to Production

5 December 2014: Docker Machine Deployment on VM Fusion,

vSphere and vCloud Air

8 Jannuary 2015: Kicking off the New Year in Style: Blueprint

Working Group

2 February 2015: One Platform, Any Application - And Getting

There with Cloud-Native

20 April 2015 : Two new open source projects – Project Photon and

Project Lightwave – that will help our customers to securely build,

run, and manage their cloud-native applications.

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Bridging two Worlds

Client Server Era Mobile-Cloud Era

Cloud IaaS

Bare Metal

vSphere

Web App Era

SDDC (In premise and off

premise)

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One Cloud For All

IT Architecure

Private

Public

SDDC

Software defined

Compute, Network and Storage

Any A

pplic

ation

Any

Device

Tra

ditio

nal

App

Clo

ud n

ative A

pp

Hybrid

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The strategy

Vmware and Pivotal working together providing

end-to-end solution from development to

production

VMware

- Photon (OS)

- Lightwave (id and access

mgmt)

Pivotal

- Lattice (for deployment and

mgmt on a scalable cluster)

Cloud-Native Application: supports standards with

key partner across ecosystem

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The evolution from infrastructure perspective

Consolidation

Workload

Workload

Workload

Server

Distribution

Application Server

Server

Server

Consolidation & Distribution

Server Wkl Wkl Wkl

Server Wkl Wkl Wkl

Server Wkl Wkl Wkl

Applic

ation

Optimize efficiency

Save capex/opex

Availability

SLA

Mixed approach

Efficiency and Availability

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The evolution from application perspective

Application(s)

Server Server Server

<<Cloud native application: Application designed and/or built to

run in a dynamic and elastic infrastrucure>> Kit Colbert

1. App knows infrastructure:

provision, scale, HA

2. Distrubuted and Scale Out

(Microservices,

Linux, Open source)

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The rise of Cloud-Native Apps

App are developed and

operated DEVOPS

Micro-services

12-factor apps

Architecture

Method

container

Docker

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Microservices

Microservices is a software architecture style, in which complex applications are

composed of small, independent processes communicating with each other using

language-agnostic APIs.

These services are small, highly decoupled and focus on doing a small task

Properties of the Microservices architecture:

• The services are easy to replace

• Services are organized around capabilities, e.g. user interface frontend,

recommendation, logistics, billing, etc.

• A microservices-based architecture

• lends itself to a continuous delivery software development process.

• is distinct from a Service-oriented architecture (SOA) in that the latter aims

at integrating various (business) applications whereas several

microservices belong to one application only

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices

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12-factor apps

The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps

that:

• Minimize time and cost for new developers joining the project (declarative

format for setup automation)

• Have a clean contract with the underlying operating system, offering

maximum portability between execution environments

• Are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need

for servers and systems administration

• Minimize divergence between development and production (continuous

deployment for maximum agility)

• Scale up without significant changes to tooling, architecture, or development

practices.

(http://12factor.net)

12factor Ideal practice for App

dev Dynamics of the

organic growth

Collaboration between

developers

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Docker and Container

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed

applications. Consisting of

• Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool,

• and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows,

Docker enables apps to be quickly assembled from components and eliminates the friction

between development, QA, and production environments. As a result, IT can ship faster and run the

same app, unchanged, on laptops, data center VMs, and any cloud.

The notion of a “container” is that it provides operating system-level process isolation, similar

in concept to hardware virtualization, like we do at VMware. The difference is that the isolation is

done in the OS rather than at the hardware abstraction layer. Containers have been around in

various forms for years: for instance FreeBSD Jails or Solaris Zones. Google realized the

potential of containers early on as well and started contributing to the Linux kernel to add

process isolation functionality to various subsystems. Projects like OpenVZ and LXC appeared

to contribute to the Linux kernel and to orchestrate these Linux kernel subsystems to execute

isolated processes (containers) on Linux.

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Container: an IT stack evolution

Machine

OS

Applications

Machine

Hypervisor

Virtual Machine

Application

Infrastructure

SDDC

Virtual Machine

Application

Infrastructure

OS OS

SDDC

Virtual Machine

OS

Container

Application

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Cloud-Native Open Security Solution

Network

Linux

Container

Engine Container Container

Orchestration & Scheduling

Repository

Identity and

Access

Management

Lightwave

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Lightwave

Identity, Authentication and Authorization Server

Scalable Architecture • Multi-master state-based replication

• Multi-data center replication

Multi-Tenant • Multiple indipendent forests

Open Source

• LDAP

• Kerberos

• SAML

• OAuth2.0

• X.509

Now available

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Cloud-Native Open Security Solution

Network

Linux

Container

Engine Container Container

Orchestration & Scheduling

Repository

Lightwave

Open Virtual

Networking

(OVN)

NSX

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Open Virtual Networking and NSX

OVN

Project that complements the existing capabilites of Open Virtual Switch

to add native support for virtual network abstractions

NSX

<<VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data

Center (SDDC).>> http://www.vmware.com/products/nsx

NSX lets you treat your physical

network as a pool of transport

capacity, with network and security

services attached to VMs with a

policy-driven approach

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vSphere

Cloud-Native Open Security Solution

NSX

Linux

Container

Engine Container Container

Orchestration & Scheduling

Repository

Lightwave

Photon

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Photon

Container Optimized Linux OS

• Support

• Docker

• Rkt

• Garden (Pivotal)

• Minimal footprint to run

CONTAINERS

vSphere Integration • Part of vSphere install

• Hypervisor-optimized container

runtime

Update from VMware • Enterpise support

• Security and update patches from VMware

Open Source

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Photon architecture

Thin OS

Micro

Minimal

Full

Custom

SystemCTL

Container Engine

Image Image

Container Container Container

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Photon deployment

Workstation/Fusion

Public Cloud

Download ISO Configure, Install,

run VM

Use it

vSphere

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Just an example: Photon with Docker

Follow this Live Example

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Lattice: Container Clustering Simplified

Lattice combines the container scheduling, per application dynamic routing and

log aggregation components from Cloud Foundry as a stand-alone package for

deploying and operating clustered applications

Together, Photon and Lattice offer the ability to run and manage containers, in

a lightweight package.

Cluster scheduler

Lattice

Http load balancing

Log aggregation

Health management

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Lattice and Photon: an example of PaaS with scaling

vDC

vDC

vDC

Lattice

Photon

Photon

Photon

Photon

Application

Availability

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How to workflow: Mesosphere (DCOS)

Application

Datacenter Services

Datacenter OS

Deploy any Linux application on the Mesosphere DCOS

with no code changes. Run your traditional applications,

new applications and big data workloads with ease.

Services such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, YARN and

Kubernetes are the killer appsof the DCOS and can be

installed with a single command.

The Mesosphere DCOS organizes the machines in your

cluster. It provides an API for building and orchestrating

distributed systems and a user interface to easily

manage thousands of nodes.

Any Platform Any Cloud

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New architectures for devops and sysadmin

App

vDatacenter

DevOps

Sysadmin

Conta

iner

and O

rch

estr

ato

r

vD

ata

cente

r

Public Cloud

Private

Cloud

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New devops method

Devel Packaging Deploy Patch Analysis

Devel Deploy Analysis

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New skills: Devops less Sysadmin

Develope Packaging Deploy Patch Analysis

Develope Deploy Analysis

Sysadmin: make env

Developer: start coding

Sysadmin: test package and

share workflow Developer:

adjust application

for env

Sysadmin: deploy,

secure, scale

Developer: adjust

application for

security and scale

Sysadmin: maintain

the infrastructure

Devops: code, publish, scale,

secure

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Some conclusion

Cloud Application

Stay in a Contanier

Directed by an orchestrator

Stay in a SDDC

environment

Work with

another Cloud

Application

Vision around a VM

Vision around

Application

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HOL-SDC-1430 - Docker Essentials for the vSphere Admin

DevOps, Containers, Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Microservices, 12-factor

applications, 3rd platform

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http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/docker-machine-deployment-vm-fusion-

vsphere-vcloud-air/

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…and don’t forget

vExpert Blog Articles

Andrea Mauro - Works in IT since 1996 and held several technical certifications (VCP, VCAP, VCDX, MCITP, MCSA,

MCSE, CCA). And he’s also a VMware vExpert (2010/2011/2012/2013/2014).

VMware cloud-native applications vision - In this post will be introduces the concept of cloud native application and how

VMware is helping to deploy and manage them.

Dan McGee - Systems Engineer, VMware vExpert 2013-2015, VMware User Group (VMUG) Speaker, and Virtualization

Blogger. Dan holds several technical certifications including VCP6-NV, VCP-Cloud, VCP5-DCV, VCP5-DT, VCA-Cloud,

VCA-DCV, VCA-WM, NIOP, VCE-CIA, IPv6 Sage, NSTISSI 4011, and NSTISSI 4013.

Photon and Lightwave and Lattice, Oh My! - This article examines some challenges and opportunities with

operationalizing Cloud-Native Apps and highlights recent announcements made by VMware and Pivotal.

Gregg Roberts

VMware Introduces New Open Source Projects to Accelerate Enterprise Adoption of Cloud-Native Applications -Last

week I was fortunate enough to be part of a blogger early access program covering VMware’s announcement around two

new open source projects built to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications.

Vladan Seget

VMware Cloud-Native Applications: Lightwave, Photon and more... - VMware Cloud-Native Applications is new model

of application distribution across nodes in clustered environment. Today VMware is announcing Cloud-Native applications

based on several projects based on open source building blocks for containerized applications.

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2015/04/project-lightwave-project-photon.html

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Reference

BASIC info, download and getting started

• http://vmware.github.io/

• http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-cloud-native-apps/

• http://www.vmware.com/cloudnative/cloudnative.html

Further Information

• http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/vmware-containers-containers-without-compromise/

• http://blogs.vmware.com/cto/better-together-containers-natural-part-software-defined-

data-center/

• http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2014/10/docker-containers-performance-vmware-

vsphere.html

• http://blog.pivotal.io/cloud-foundry-pivotal/products/lattice-simplifies-container-clusters

Contributors

• http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/

• http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2015/04/project-lightwave-project-photon.html

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