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Maximize Your Cloud Investment with a Private PaaS

Ho Ming Li, Cloud [email protected]

Troy Topnik, Technical [email protected]

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What is Platform-as-a-Service?The abstraction of application hosting infrastructure (hardware and

software) from the application code

•easy to use for developers

•multi-tenant

•automated application hosting configuration

•services rather than virtual infrastructure

•empower developers in development workflow

•"polyglot" or single-platform


PaaS Examples


What is Private PaaS?

Just like a public PaaS, but with you as the provider

•set up and administered by your organization

•software providing PaaS functionality

•cuts out at least one middle man


Private PaaS Examples


PaaS is one level higher in the app hosting stack:

•IT/Ops manage IaaS and PaaS

•Developers are end users of PaaS

… though there's usually some overlap.

PaaS vs. Cloud Orchestration


The Problem


The Solution

● Consistent environments throughout dev cycle● Apps that work in dev will work in production.● Self-service● Automated provisioning


PaaS Characteristics• designed for application developers as the primary

end users

• users request application resources, not virtual machines as with IaaS

• abstraction at the application and data service level

• more automated than configuration management tools (e.g. Chef or Puppet)


PaaS should use Secure Containers


Inside Stackat

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Getting Stackato In house: Download a VM

•using just a hypervisor (KVM, VirtualBox, Xen)

•with cloud orchestration software (e.g. vSphere, Open Stack, Eucalyptus)

Hosted: Start a Stackato instance

•AWS

•HP Cloud


Demo: Running a Micro Cloud

The Stackato VM boots as a "micro cloud" with all components and services necessary to provide PaaS.


Demo: Deploying Applications

Stackato demo applications show how to:

•Configure apps once to deploy to any Stackato system

•Code database connections to consume services

•Use environment variables hold credentials

•Follow the Twelve-Factor App methodology (Heroku)


Demo: Creating a Stackato ClusterThe "stem cell" philosophy of the Stackato VM

• boots as a fully functional micro cloud

•connects to a Primary node (MBUS IP)

•can take on one or more roles

'kato' command automates most of the configuration• common configuration and maintenance tasks are automated

• more fine-grained control than the web console

No BOSH required, much shorter learning curve


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