Java Agile ALM: OTAP and DevOps in the CloudReleasing the Cloud potentional in Application Development

Bas van Oudenaarde14 dec 2012, OSC2012

Agenda• ‘whoami’

• History, why Cloud?

• Challenges

• VX Factory

• Development needs

• Agile ALM - DevOps

• Soweto SaaS case

• Future / wrap up

Introduction

• Bas van Oudenaarde

• Technical Manager Enterprise Open Source Solutions / Java at VX Company

• Determine roadmap for development / Consultancy

• Special interest: App development, Cloud and DevOps solutions

• 15 years IT experience

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$ $ $ $ “VX Company het bedrijf waar ik zelf graag wil werken”

Applica'on*Services*

Oracle*

Java*

Microso3*

Mobile*

Infrastructure*Services*

Microso3*

Enterprise*OSS*

Managed*Services*

IT=Management*Services*

Service*&*Project*Management*

Tes'ng*Services*

External*Resources*

VX Company

History, why Cloud infrastructure?

• Let me take you back to end 2010...

• Customer request: Build an infrastructure + application which runs most of the time on 10% of the needed hardware, but could scale up when needed

• BTW: How much experiences do you have? (real business, no prototypes and no toy examples, no ideas -> real proof)

• Big events...

• Competitions betting on winner, dutch: “pooltje”

• on demand infrastructure before week of event start, scale up

Meanwhile @VX...

• Time to Market: How quick can we start with a new project?

• Network capacity to Internet (more projects, more bandwidth needed)

• Storage of older projects, run out of SAN every year

• Flexibility, combinations of different systems / other tooling

Needed...

• Time to market (T2M): start of new projects #hours, not #weeks!

• Flexible: network constrains, firewall rules, network config

• Investment (TCO): What if project is finished?

• Maintenance of the Development infrastructure and tooling?

• Quality of Service (QoS) improvement

? Cloud Silver Bullet ?

Define Cloud (computing)...

         “Cloud  compu*ng  is  a  model  for  enabling  convenient,  on-‐demand  network  access  to  a  shared  pool  of  configurable  compu;ng  resources  (e.g.,  networks,  servers,  storage,  applica;ons,  and  services)  that  can  be  rapidly  provisioned  and  released  with  minimal  management  effort  or  service  provider  interac;on.  This  cloud  model  promotes  availability  and  is  composed  of  essen;al  characteris;cs,  deployment  models,  and  various  service  models.”

 (according:  Na-onal  Ins-tute  of  Standards  and  Technology  (NIST))

source: IBMResource sharing, how can we control crosstalk and share on the highest possible level?

Challenges...

5 Criteria of Cloud Computing

•  On-‐demand  self-‐service•  Resource  pooling•  Network  access•  Scale  Up/Down  -‐  on  demand•  Measured  Service  (e.g.  "Chargebacks")

Myth  #1:        I'm  hos-ng  my  instance  so  we're  on  on  the  'Cloud’Myth  #2:        We're  using  VMWare,  Xen,  etc.  so  we're  using  the  Cloud

Focus

• Looking for PaaS / SaaS level Cloud services

- Benefit maintenance -> patches, keep up to date

- Right people with expertise doing the right job

• Focus on core business: Software Development

OTAP

Factory in the CloudVXtechnogolgy partners

Controle plane hub

Development Needs

Document Management(Confluence, wiki)

Configuratie Management(Git, SVN)

Issue Management(Jira)

Atlassian provides SaaS Solution

Step 1:Minimum foundation for controlled software development

Step 2:Getting Feedback, quality check on code changes...

provides Jenkins PaaS solution -> ‘buidling’ jobs portal

Continuous Integration buildsContinuous Quality buildsContinuous Delivery ‘Deploy everywhere’

Agile Application Lifecycle Management

eco system

...

Deployment environments...

• Enterprise versions of JBoss AS (EAP)• Very rich development frameworks• Easy hook in development tooling• NoSQL solution -> mongoDB

• Mature• Many possibilities to control infrastructure • Different stacks, data solutions

...many more possible Cloud Solutions

...on premises deployments or hosted deployments

Cloud Computing Scan Solution• Get Current • Get Cloud Ready Determine Cloud Ready status

- Using decision-tree for target Cloud run-time environment- Feasible? technical / budget-wise - Taking steps: upgrade, changing interfaces

• Get Cloud Managed Migrate to target Cloud

- App migrations- Database migrations- Monitoring in place- Integration with development (Agile ALM)

Agile ALM

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Could have a bigger impact in the total...

Agile ALM

Deming circle ’50

-Not only on the development phase, but the on complete Application Life cycle-Small steps: control risk and complexity-Quick iterations -> Feed back to adjust plan!-Many steps will build your solution

One problem...

The ‘gray’ area

Dev Ops

DevOps• Dev meets Ops -> See infrastructure as code treat it the same way

-> Don’t lean on Ops just act, scaling is also your responsibility

• Ops meet Dev -> Give a part of your control plane away: API

within certain boundaries! Still in control

-> More into the Cloud, we still need control:

e.g. stack Paas on PaaS

• Teaming to get the job done, e.g. security don’t stop at boundaries it goes from infra up to App space

• Use Agile everywhere, small steps to improve (use feedback loop)

MeasurementReal time monitoring, Running over different Clouds,Again many Cloud solutions available

Agile ALM / DevOps Scan Solutions

• Get Current -> Scanning for improvements

• Determine first steps to start with

• Not a one fit all !

• Not only in automation, also in processes and team spirit

First App through VX Factory

Soweto Care is about...

• TODO: ... explain more of field ...

• non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

• Charity project developed by VX, started as desktop application

- Spent a lot of time to keep it up & running due to virus, theft, lack of backups ect.

• 2011 completely refactored and build with new VX Factory (ultimate test)

Cloud benefits for Soweto Care

• Control plane let different people (on their Demand) do the job:

- Business Analyst gets Acceptance Test version deploy on AWS

- Business Analyst clicks at the button and deploys on production

• Easy International cooperation around the globe

• http://www.cloudbees.com/case-study/vx-company.cb

Recap• New architectures driven by Mobile Applications

• More SaaS based application,

- Scaling on demand

- Different data manipulation, which scales eed for NoSQL solutions

- Integration in the Cloud

• Cloud Solutions are out there to help!

- Innovation

- parallelism, scaling, T2M, TOC

Innovation

Future...• More interoperable Clouds

- No more Cloud locking, especially SaaS solutions are killing

- ecosystems are helping for now

• Standardization

- Security (AuthN / AuthZ)

- Control API

• It will be easier!

Red Hat CloudformsOpen Stack...

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