improving application reliability and security with stackato 3.2
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Stackato is a cloud application platform that leverages the Cloud Foundry and Docker open source projects. With enterprise-ready functionality and commercial support, Stackato is a faster way to implement a private Platform-as-a-Service within your organization instead of building one from scratch. The new release of Stackato (v3.2) provides some powerful changes to help enhance the reliability, security and administration of your applications. Find out how Stackato 3.2: - Reduces the downtime and improves the reliability of your cloud applications - Improves the security of your applications - Provides IT administrators with better control over application environments and user permissions - Enables tighter integration with external databases such as Oracle RDS - Facilitates easier administration with dozens of web console UI enhancements http://www.activestate.com/webinars/app-reliability-security-stackatoTRANSCRIPT
App Reliability and Security With Stackato 3.2
John WetherillDeveloper Evangelist
Ho Ming LiCloud Engineer
Jan 2014
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3.2
Upcoming
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Stackato 3.2 Main Focus
Usability
Security
Autoscaling
Availability
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Stackato 3.2 New Features, Enhancements
Placement & Availability Zones
More Granular User Permissions
New Console Dashboard
Application Autoscaling
DEA Autoscaling on CloudPlatform/CloudStack
Single Sign-On
Patches, meta tags, UI improvements
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Placement and Availability Zones
• Zone-based HA
• Disparate Geographies
• Group nodes by:
• geography
• cpu, mem or net load/cost
• team
• app
• environment (dev/test/prod)
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Placement and Availability Zones
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Placement and Availability Zones
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Placement and Availability Zones
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Placement/Availability Zones DEMO
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Placement/Availability Zones DEMO
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Placement/Availability Zones DEMO
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Application Autoscaling
• Monitors CPU load
• Configurable lower/upper threshold
• Tunable to optimize resource utilization
• High usage spins new app instance(s)
• After cooldown instances are drained and terminated
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Application Autoscaling DEMO
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DEA Autoscaling
• Monitors DEA memory
• Configurable lower/upper threshold
• Calls IaaS layer to provision new DEA
• Supported on most major IaaS
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DEA Autoscaling
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DEA Autoscaling
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Single Sign-On
• checkbox
• each app can “opt-in” to SSO
• centralized enforcement, credential management
• single identity across all apps, or groups of apps
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Single Sign-On DEMO
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Single Sign-On DEMO
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Single Sign-On
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Granular User Permissions
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Granular User Permissions
• assign permissions by groups
• reflected in external identity system (ldap,
activedirectory)
• can enable compliance
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Updated UI
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Dashboards
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Dashboards
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Why Enterprises Use Stackato
Faster Time to MarketWith Stackato, developers can get apps to the cloud in minutes, not weeks.
Greater SecurityStackato has been extended and hardened to provide enterprises with tighter security, better compliance, and more control over secure, sensitive data.
Agility and ScalabilityAs usage grows, Stackato scales applications to deliver performance for end-users demand.
Productivity and InnovationStackato automates the configuration, deployment, and management of applications.
FlexibilityStackato gives developers and IT managers the freedom they need. The polyglot nature of Stackato means you can give your developers the flexibility to work with the best choice of language for any task.
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What is Stackato?
A secure, stable, and commercially supported Platform-as-a-
Service (PaaS) built with open source components such as Cloud
Foundry and Docker
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Where does Stackato fit in the Cloud?
+ others
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Stackato 3.2
Processing
Frameworks Database & Messaging Service Web Servers Languages
Auto-Provisioning, Configuration, Scaling of Application Middleware
Storage Network
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