paas in the real world: how it & devops are making paas work for them

© 2013 Cloud Technology Partners, Inc. / ActiveState / www.cloudtp.com / www.activestate.com

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David S. Linthicum / [email protected] / www.cloudtp.com

An Insider’s Guide to Creating & Leveraging Hybrid Clouds

Bart Copeland / [email protected] / www.activestate.com

PaaS In The Real World . How IT & DevOps are Making PaaS Work for Them


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What is Our Best Path to the Cloud?


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Cloud Failures


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The Reality of Failure

The Cloud is Down!


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One Team, One Goal

DevOps focuses both the Apps team’s drive for agility and responsiveness and the NOC’s concern with quality and stability with the ulDmate goal of providing business value.

Development IT Operations

Source: HP


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•  ApplicaDon backlogs

•  Missed business opportuniDes

•  Increase in complexity

•  Increase in latency

•  Lack of elasDcity

•  Lagging Dme-‐to-‐market

•  Lack of business agility

The Results


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Hitting the Wall


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The Value of Private PaaS


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High growth is expected in cloud infrastructure services.

The Market is Speaking for Itself


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The Growth of PaaS is Driven by the Need for Business Agility

Source: Stefan Ried, Forrester


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Gartner predicts that worldwide plaXorm as a service market is set to reach a high of $1.2 billion in 2012, as compared to $900 million in 2011. Market revenue is expected to increase from a total of $1.5 billion in 2013 to $2.9 billion in 2016. Gartner Report: Market Trends: Pla/orm as Service, Worldwide, 2012-‐2016, 2H12 Update.

PaaS Growth


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The Drive to Serve the End Users


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Large PaaS Market Segments

Source: Gartner

Cloud applicaDon plaXorm services (aPaaS), accounDng for 34.4 percent of total PaaS spending in 2012. 34.4%

Cloud applicaDon life cycle management (ALM) services (almPaaS) at 12 percent. 12%

Cloud BPM plaXorm services (bpmPaaS) at 11.6 percent. 11.6%

Cloud integraDon services (iPaaS) at 11.4 percent. 11.4%


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The Operational Benefits Are Obvious


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Reasons for moving to Cloud Computing

Business Agility is the Main Objective


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•  Cloud-‐based roles and org •  Workload centric resource models (e.g., e-‐mail)

•  Co-‐sourced staff

•  AutomaDon & self service •  ConsumpDon-‐based charge-‐back models

•  Mature service framework to manage service-‐centric model

•  Pervasive virtualizaDon •  Converged architecture •  Federated workloads •  Pools of resources

Achieving the end-state requires significant transformation

Readiness: People, Process & Technology

Enterprise IT Cloud

TECHNOLOGY

•  Complex •  Expensive •  Inflexible •  Siloed

PROCESS

•  Liele infrastructure automaDon •  Services allocated to LOB or applicaDon owner

•  ITIL-‐based services frameworks loosely applied

PEOPLE

Organiza0onal silos of •  Infrastructure (compute, storage, network)

•  ApplicaDon & management •  Security


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•  Infrastructure administraDon using automaDon and orchestraDon

•  ApplicaDon developers deploying and managing applicaDons

•  A cultural shif that facilitates a collaboraDve approach to building, deploying and operaDng applicaDons

Market Perceptions of DevOps

Source: dev2ops.org


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Source: dev2ops.org


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Achieving Agility Through DevOps

Engineering Security

OperaDons

Develop Test Stage Deploy Operate Design


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Good •  Budget -‐ It’s cheap.

•  Power -‐ It scales.

•  Development – It’s producDve.

Bad •  LimitaDons -‐ Can only use what’s there.

•  Standards -‐ Few exist.

PaaS in the Real World


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•  Make sure to consider the target applicaDon. Static application requirements often lead to PaaS not being a fit.

•  Make sure to consider resources required.

PaaS clouds limit use of resources, or they become too expensive quickly.

•  Make sure to consider data persistence. Data support varies greatly.

•  Make sure not to get religious around the languages. “We’ll do it in any language as long as it’s Python.”

•  Make sure to consider leveraging the outside world. Need to interact with other clouds, and on-premise systems.

•  Make sure to consider staging and tesDng.

Real World Advice


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•  Start with the data, and work up to the services and UI. Not maeer what the PaaS provider suggests.

•  Create an iniDal POC, and make sure to validate the complete stack.

•  Define a staging and tesDng strategy before you begin development.

•  Consider SOA approaches in the design and deployment of the PaaS-‐based applicaDon.

•  Make sure to do load tesDng along with funcDonal tesDng.

•  Make sure to model performance.

•  Don’t fall in love with a PaaS player. You may need to use several.

Best Practices


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1.  Governance 2.  Regulatory Compliance

3.  Security & IdenDty Management

4.  Business ConDnuity 5.  Process and Services 6.  Data Management

7.  System IntegraDon

8.  Resource Skills & Knowledge 9.  ApplicaDon Readiness 10. Network Readiness

Enterprise Vulnerabilities - Assess your Risks

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Build a solid founda0on:

•  Determine business drivers

•  Understand: data, services, business processes and system integraDon points

•  Design a “cloud-‐friendly” enterprise architecture roadmap that leverages Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)

•  Determine an integraDon strategy for internal and external systems

•  Outline a migraDon path for legacy systems to the new architecture

Architecture Roadmap General Guidance


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“As-Is”


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“To Be”


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Deploy


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But are there enterprises actually doing this…

…and seeing exponential operational and productivity gains?


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Yes. Yes they are, with…

The enterprise private PaaS

#stackato


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What is Stackato?


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Private PaaS for the Agile Enterprise

Setup & Scale

Develop & Deploy

Manage & Monitor


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Agile Development, Rapid Deployment B

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What Comes in the Box?


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The theory is great…but who are these actual enterprises?


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•  Mozilla

•  ExactTarget

•  Wireless SoluDons Leader

Some of our success stories…

What kind of value can private PaaS bring to your private cloud?


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Mozilla

Get out of the way of developers and just let them code.


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ExactTarget

Innovation supported by infrastructure… …not stymied.


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Wireless Solutions Leader

Agility. The key to remaining competitive, nimble, and a market leader.


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Only when you take control of your infrastructure and make it work for you, can you achieve true transformation and innovation in the cloud.

Check out Stackato: The Movie


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A Holistic Approach to Cloud

Cloud Technology Partners

PLAN / DESIGN / BUILD / MIGRATE / MANAGE

Cloud Exclusive & Vendor Independent •  44 cloud implementaDons with 20 different enterprise clients •  Doubled company size year-‐over-‐year since incepDon

•  Boston based, global reach •  Average consultant experience >20 years

Portfolio Transformation for global publisher with:

3,000 Applications

Cloud Strategy & Roadmap for three global banks holding:

$1.2 Trillion in Assets

Application Development for a manufacturer with operations in:

500 Locations Worldwide

Management Platform Strategy for a health services company with:

70 Million Customers

$18 Billion in Revenue

Application Migration for a Asian telecom provider with:

300,000 Employees

Infrastructure as a Service for a multinational conglomerate with:


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•  …empowers innovaDon from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster.

•  …is a Gartner Research 2013 “Cool Vendor in PaaS.”

•  …is an SD Times 2013 “Company to Watch.”

•  …is profitable and self-‐funded.

•  …is NOT a startup: We’ve been selling to enterprise since 1997.

•  …offers enterprise-‐grade commercial support for its products and soluDons.

•  …knows applicaDon development: –  More than two million developers use AcDveState sofware –  97% of F1000 companies use AcDveState sofware

•  …knows enterprise. A few notable customers:

ActiveState


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