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Evolving DevOpsThe Benefits of PaaS and Application Dial Tone

Cornelia Davis Director Platform Engineering

@cdavisafc

December 2014

Abby KearnsProduct Marketing

@ab415

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Consumer Expectations Drive New Software Patterns

Changing development and release disciplines

• Agile

• Cloud-native App Design

• Continuous Delivery

• DevOps

Time

Expectations Innovation Gap

IaaS

Automation

DevOps, CD, Agile

Traditional IT

Startups

Enterprise

PaaS

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The Cloud Platform Evolution

TRADITIONAL IAAS

Virtualization Platform

Operating System

Data

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IAAS

Your Application

Code

PAAS

Virtualized

Infrastructure

PAAS

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Enhanced IaaS

Your Application

Code

PAAS

Virtualized

Infrastructure

PAAS

Virtualized

Infrastructure

Your Application

Code

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IAAS

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Application Dial Tone

Your

Application

Code

PAAS

Virtualized

Infrastructure

Emits application “dial tone”

• Config

• Runtime

• Logs

• Metrics

• Health Management

• Security

• Operations

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Agile Development

DEVELOPMENT

App1

John’s dev ver

Other dev apps

DEVELOPMENT

App1

Mary’s dev ver

Other dev apps

Staging

Staging

App1

Stg. version

Other Stg. apps

Production

PRODUCTION

App1

Production version

Other Prod apps

No code or embedded configuration changes

Application Configuration

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Application Logging

• Aggregating application-

level logs

• Visibility into application

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Managing Application Health

• Confirm application

accessibility

• Validate application

performance

• Responsive application

automation

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Securing the Application

• Outbound firewall rules to restrict

network traffic to applications

• Configurable application-centric

whitelist rules

• Rules automatically applied to

applications

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Application Runtime

Increased server utilization, portability, consistency and speed

Changes “dial tone”

Faster than booting up a VM

“Disposable”

Reduce OS footprint

Higher workload density

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Virtualized

Infrastructure

Infrastructure-centric Operations Model

Your Application

Code

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IaaS+IT Ops Team

App Team

(dev and ops)

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Application-centric Operations

Virtualized

Infrastructure

Your Application

Code

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IaaS+

Your Application

Code

PAAS

Virtualized

Infrastructure

PaaS Ops Team

App Team

(Dev and Ops)

Emits application “dial tone”

• Configuration

• Runtime

• Logs

• Metrics

• Health Management

• Security

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Benefits of Application Dial Tone

Continuous Integration/Delivery– environment uniformity and proper abstractions

Optimized IT Practices– standardized runtimes

Application boundaries for security and more– lightweight containers

Separate operational concerns

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