Stackato and Lessons Learned With Cloud Foundry

CF Summit, June 2014

Jeffrey HobbsCTO, ActiveState Software

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About ActiveState

•Established 1997

•2M+ developers, 97% of Fortune 1000 rely on ActiveState

•Deep knowledge breadth across programming languages and development

•Best-of-breed, highly scalable, minimal implementation requirements

•Founding Gold Member of Cloud Foundry foundation

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Industry Recognition

• Gartner Research 2013 “Cool Vendor in PaaS”

• Gartner Research 2013 On-Premise App Platform Magic Quadrant “Visionary”

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What is Stackato?

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The Path to Stackato

2011 2012 2013

CF AnnouncedApril

Stackato PDPJune

Stackato BetaNovember

Stackato 1.0February

Stackato 2.0July

MultipaasStackato 2.10

April

Stackato 3.0December

Micro Cloud

Buildpacks

Centralized Logging

Linux Containers

Router-NG

2014

Stackato 3.2March

CF v2Docker

2D Zone MgmtApp Auto-ScalingApp SSO

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“Forking” Cloud Foundry v1

•Support for cron•Management console•Persistent file system service•Logyard•Kato (centralized cluster management)

•Harbor (ports as a service)•AOK (replaces UAA)•Oracle DB provisioner

•Linux Containers•Groups•Enhanced RBAC•Buildpacks•Router2g•Stackato client•Komodo integration•ssh & dbshell application access

•Staging & Runtime Hooks

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Stackato & Cloud Foundry v1 -> v2

6 Months

3000+ changes

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Stackato 3 Architecture

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Playing Catch Up

•Totally revamped CF v2 codebase

•Even though mostly Ruby, Rails was swapped for Sinatra

•Completely new CF v2 API

•Client needed to maintain CF v1 support

•New Orgs and Spaces (replacing our existing Groups)

•Containers now standard

•Go components entering into core CF

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Merging Changes

•We merge core CF with every Stackato release cycle (quarterly)

•Merges now take about 2 person weeks

•Make sure the tests are passing … before and after!

•Value add pieces are merged over new changes, new features must be evaluated

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Adding Value for Managers

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Adding Value for Admins

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Adding Value for Developers

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Where Next?

•Workload portability

• Interoperability

•CF and otherwise

•Leverage the best of open source

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Open Source CF Related Contributions

•https://github.com/ActiveState/

•stackato command line and JS client code

•CF v2 services connector

•Persistent filesystem service, elasticsearch and other services

•AOK (Ruby UAA replacement), with updates to OmniAuth

•PRs to core code

•Various buildpacks

•Related non-core tools

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Stackato & Cloud Foundry Summarized

•Stackato v3 based on Cloud Foundry v2

•Merges to CF core occur with every release cycle

•Cloud Foundry provides an excellent base to work with

•Composable elements, message passing, distributed system

•CF v2 API compatible

•Value add … it’s good, as long as you don’t break anything!

•Committed to using the best of open source

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Dogfooding

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Customer Happiness

“There is no reason why as an IT organization, you should get in the way of the success of product…It comes down to being able to deploy code and keeping the infrastructure up. That’s fundamental to what our PaaS does.”

Chris Turra, Web Operations Engineer, Mozilla

“Instead of quickly developing apps and then running into the brick wall of IT backlogs, [with Stackato], developers can literally run with their apps straight to the cloud. Easily, safely, and quickly.”

Dale McCrory, Principal Product Manager, ExactTarget

“With Stackato, we maximize ‘Joyful Dev’ by automating as much of the ‘Frustrating Ops’ as possible.”

Stackato use cases:•Java mobile apps

with over 25,000 users

•Internal HR app with 1M requests per day

Mobile Device Leader

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