building a university community paas using cloud foundry (cloud foundry summit 2014)

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Building a University Community PaaS

Using Cloud Foundry

Yaohui Jin, Deputy Director, Network & Information Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Wei-Min Lu, CEO, Anchora/MoPaaS, China

2014-06-10

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About SJTU and NIC

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)• One of the top 5 universities in China

• Faculty & staff members: 7,000+

• Students: 36,000+

Center for Network & Information (NIC)• Providing IT services for education and research etc

• 40+ employees

• π, No. 204 of TOP500 supercomputer

• 250+ servers in datacenter

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About Anchora• Leading Cloud Platform & Service Provider

in China– Streamlines app lifecycle management

– The first open public PaaS (MoPaaS) in China

– MoPaaS national network consolidates public/ community PaaS’s

– Top ten most innovative cloud company in China

• Products and Services: MoPaaS– Public PaaS

– Virtual Private/Community PaaS

– MoPaaS Enterprise Edition: InPaaS

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The MoPaaS Network in China• MoPaaS Core System

– MoPaaS Cloud App Engine

– Virtual Private Cloud PaaS

• MoPaaS Extended System– Public Cloud Service Providers

– Community Cloud Service Providers

– MoPaaS Integration

• MoPaaS Cloud Services– Virtual Private PaaS

– Virtual Community PaaS

– Public PaaS

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SJTU PaaS Jointly Built and Operated by SJTU NIC and Anchora/MoPaaS

The First University Community PaaS in Chinahttp://www.cf.sjtu.edu.cn/

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Requirements for SJTU PaaS

Research： Providing research individuals & groups with a unified IT

environment for research projects

Teaching： A unified development/testing environment for class projects

• The students develop their code on their PCs, and then deploy and test their

apps on the PaaS.

• The teachers monitor the students’ progresses, and run and evaluate their

projects on the PaaS

Innovation and Entrepreneurship： The university encourages

entrepreneurship; an online incubator for students

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The SJTU PaaS Is Built on OpenStack

Controller 2×E5 2670， 64GB， 2×300GB， 10GE

Compute Node 2×E5 2670， 64GB， 2×300GB SAS + 4×3TB SATA， 10GE

Storage Node 2×E5 2670， 64GB， 12×2T SATA， 10GE

Networking 10GE

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 SJTU PaaS Is Based on Cloud Foundry

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The third party services

Services

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SJTU PaaS Integration with MoPaaS• MoPaaS Core Systems

– MoPaaS Cloud App Engine

– Virtual Private Cloud PaaS

• SJTU PaaS System

– Community PaaS

– MoPaaS Integration

• Extended PaaS Services

– Limited resources with SJTU PaaS

– Easy Migration to MoPaaS

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Case Studies: Innovation

• The Mobile App Innovation Challenge at STJU• 67 teams• Apps on the CF-based PaaS

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Case Study ： SJTU WIFI Monitoring Platform

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Case Study ： Air Pollution Monitoring and Analyzing System

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Summary

SJTU PaaS Is Based on Cloud Foundry

• The first community PaaS in China

• Built on SJTU NIC OpenStack-based IaaS

• Based on MoPaaS

SJTU PaaS Is Used as a Platform for

• Research

• Teaching

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Contact Us

Prof. Yaohui Jin:• Deputy Director, SJTU NIC

• jinyh@sjtu.edu.cn

• +86-139-1848-5071

Dr. Wei-Min Lu:• CEO, Anchora/CEO

• wmlu@anchora.me

• +1-408-658-8166

• +86-186-2623-3286

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FOUR LEVELS OF HA IN CLOUD FOUNDRYCornelia Davis @cdavisafc cdavis@gopivotal.com

I work on a PaaS…

“For us, PaaS is a set of services aimed at developers that helps them develop and test apps without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. Developers don't want to have to worry about provisioning the servers, storage and backup associated with developing and launching an app.”

[1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2078801/java-app-dev/forrester--paas-makes-developers-happy.html[2] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/paas-primer-what-platform-service-and-why-does-it-matter-212696

And I believed ‘em…

I work on a PaaS…

“For us, PaaS is a set of services aimed at developers that helps them develop and test apps without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure. Developers don't want to have to worry about provisioning the servers, storage and backup associated with developing and launching an app.”

[1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2078801/java-app-dev/forrester--paas-makes-developers-happy.html[2] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/paas-primer-what-platform-service-and-why-does-it-matter-212696

And I believed ‘em…

… but then I learned otherwise

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Elastic Runtime (ERS):

Distribution across availability zones

Application health management and recovery

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Process monitoring, recovery and alerting

Virtual machine health monitoring, recovery and alerting