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Building your Next Infrastructure for Cloud Native Apps

PierGiorgio Malusardi – Solution Architect

25/09/2015

Disclaimer

• This presentation may contain product features that are currently under development.

• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in any generally available product.

• Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.

• Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

• Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not been determined.

Agenda

1 Overview of Cloud-Native Applications

2 Running Containers on VMware Infrastructure

3 Introducing the VMware Photon Platform

Application Design is Changing

Properties of a Microservice

• Small code base

• Easy to scale, deploy and throw away

• Autonomous

• Resilient

Benefits of a Microservices Architecture

• A highly resilient, scalable and resource efficient application

• Enables smaller development teams

• Teams free to use the right languages and tools for the job

• Rapid application development

Monolithic/Layered Micro Services

What are Cloud-Native Applications?

Developer access via APIs

Microservices, not monolithic stacks

Continuous integration and deployment

App-defined Availability

Built for scale

Decoupled from infrastructure

Application

Motivation Behind Cloud-Native Applications

Software-Defined Everything

Regardless of industry, businesses increasingly rely on technology to differentiate

IT shifting from cost center to enabler of growth

Rich Customer Experience

Customers demanding enhanced engagement Third Platform: mobile, social, analytics, cloud

Speed and Agility

Improving time-to-value with DevOps, Agile New architectures to streamline workflows

New Capabilities and Priorities

Infrastructure must be dynamic, API-driven, highly scalable Small teams able to manage large fleets

Cloud-Native Architectures Less Reliant on Rich Infrastructure

Traditional App Cloud-Native App

Architecture Monolithic Microservices

Configuration Procedural Declarative

Availability Handled by infrastructure Integrated with app

Storage Centralized, redundant Scale-out object

storage and NoSQL /

key-value stores

Response Shifting demand handled

by DRS, scale-up

Scale-out,

load balanced traffic

Interface GUI, robust orchestration API/CLI preferred,

integration with

DevOps toolchain

Containers Are Aligned with Cloud-Native Architectures

• Application portability supports wide range of environments

• Automation and integration with CI/CD and DevOps workflows

• Quick to instantiate and iterate, shortening feedback loops

• Stateless nature aligns with scale-out designs

But containers are not just next-generation VMs

Hardware

OS Kernel

OS File system

Users

pace

Container

App p

rocess

App p

rocess

App p

rocess

App p

rocess

App p

rocess

Container

App p

rocess

App p

rocess

Linux Containers

OS-level Isolation

• Isolation at individual kernel subsystem level (e.g. filesystem, process table, etc)

• User-level process (LXC, libcontainer) orchestrates these subsystems to create a container

Existed for Many Years

Solaris Zones, FreeBSD Jails, OpenVZ

Why?

• Process isolation

• Reproducible environment

• Enables management at scale

is a “Shipping Container” for Code

Developers because …

• Frictionless deployment and maximum portability

On developer laptop:

Then on server:

That’s it!!

• A natural fit for 3rd Platform, 12 factor, microservices

• It makes DevOps much, much easier

~# docker build my_app ~# docker push my_app

~#

~# docker pull my_app ~# docker run my_app

~#

VMware Cloud-Native Apps Stack

vSphere

vSphere

Integrated

Containers

vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations,

vRealize Log Insight

Pivotal

Cloud Foundry

VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN

vRealize Code Stream

Chef,

Ansible JFrog

Artifactory

Repository Config. Mgmt.

Git,

Perforce

Code Repo

Jenkins,

Bamboo

CI/CD

Developer Laptop

Development Lifecycle

Production Stack

Vagrant,

Panamax

VMware

AppCatalyst Photon

Platform vCloud Air

Docker, Kubernetes,

Mesos, Lattice

VMware AppCatalyst

Download Technology Preview Now!

http://getappcatalyst.com

Built for Developers AppCatalyst is REST API- and CLI-driven for seamless integration with container-

and microservices-based workflows.

Free to Use AppCatalyst is available at no cost to the

user, and ready for download today.

Ready for Cloud Native AppCatalyst ships with Photon OS and

Vagrant, and supports Docker containers out of the box.

VMware AppCatalyst

Developer Desktop

VMware AppCatalyst C

LI

RE

ST

AP

I

Network and Storage Abstractions

(coming soon)

Docker Machine

Container Container Container

Container Container Container

Vagrant

or

Bring Your Own Linux

PHOTON OS

VMware vSphere Provides Perfect Infrastructure for Containers

• Run containers alongside your existing workloads on vSphere

– Leverage proven infrastructure, skill sets, and operational processes

• Allocate resources effectively to meet SLAs

– Network services, data persistency options

• Maximize uptime with vSphere services

– HA, DRS, vMotion, SRM

• Consistent management tools

– vCenter and vRealize integration for management, monitoring, compliance

• Performance on par with bare metal – possibly better

– NUMA scheduling, hardware interrupts

You came for the virtual infrastructure… Now stay for the containers!

Unified Hybrid Platform

vSphere Integrated Containers

• Give developers the flexibility, portability and speed containers deliver

• Containers are first-class citizens direct on top of the hypervisor

• Fast container deployment (on top of VM) through VMfork

• Leverage existing investments in VMware infrastructure, people, processes and management tools

• DRS, vMotion, HA/DR

• Storage and Network Integration (VSAN and NSX)

• Virtualization brings many benefits: Security, Isolation and multiple-OS support

• Apply same isolation, data persistence, networking, management and robust service levels you have today

• No rebuilding or re-architecture required

• Full compatibility with broad ecosystem of existing tools

• No need for a separately managed Linux container host, ESXi is the container host

NSX

VSAN

vRealize

vSphere

vSphere Integrated Containers

(Instant Clone, Project Bonneville, Photon OS)

vSphere Integrated Containers Friendly to Container Ecosystem

• A virtual Docker API endpoint backed by a pool of trusted vSphere resources

– Compatible with clients or container orchestrators like Kubernetes

– Containers run as lightweight VMs – no shared Linux kernel

• Fast, Light, and Secure

– Instant Clone

– Project Photon OS

– Lightwave enterprise-grade trust

• Currently in “Tech Preview”

Forked Child

Container

Forked Child

Container

Forked Child

Container

Photon Parent

VMware vSphere Infrastructure

Virtual Docker API Shared Images

vSphere Integrated Containers Before & After

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Docker API

VMware ESX

PhotonOS

VMware ESX

PhotonOS

Shared Datastores

C1

Layer1

Layer2

Layer3

Image1

VM create, start, stop, delete

docker run docker stop docker rm

VMware ESX VMware ESX

Shared Datastores

docker-machine 1

VM created w/ Docker Engine 2

Docker API

docker run 3

DE

C1 C2

DE’

VI admin creates Virtual Container Host

1

C2

3

2 Virtual

Container Host

(Resoure Pool) and Docker

Engine uVM created

uVM

uVM

uVM

vCenter

Docker containers are created inside the VM

4 Instant

Clone!

4 Docker containers created in uVMs via Instant Clone

VMware ESX

PhotonOS

vCenter

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Introducing Photon Controller

Cloud-Native Platform

VMware Photon Platform

Photon Controller

Photon Machine

Photon Platform

Host controller & scheduler:

High scale distributed control plane,

includes Lightwave

Compute host:

Lightweight hypervisor, based on ESX

Includes Photon OS

Deep integration with modern, open

source frameworks & app platforms

Photon Platform Architecture

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Photon Machine

PhotonOS

Photon Machine

PhotonOS

Photon Machine

PhotonOS

Photon API

Photon Controller Clustered design delivers massive scale and high-

availability.

Combination of local and/or shared

Photon Machine datastores.

Photon Controller #2

Photon Controller #3

Photon Machine Combination of core ESX with

PhotonOS

Cloud Foundry API Kubernetes API

Create CF cluster Create Kubernetes cluster

cf push cf scale

kubectl create kubectl get pods

Photon Controller #1 Cloud Foundry

Cluster Kubernetes Cluster

A Clean-Slate Approach: Optimized for Cloud Scale

Focused Feature-Set

Purpose-built for cloud native, it provides just the features needed to provide a secure and SLA-capable infrastructure for next-gen apps.

API-first Model

Built on clean, development-friendly APIs, enabling consumption and operations to automate heavily to handle massive scale.

Scale-Out Control Plane

A scale-out control plane optimizes for the creation of 1000s of simultaneous new workloads while also delivering active-active availability of system APIs.

New Economics Enables new “pay for what you need, when you need it” consumption model that is suited for large-scale deployments with elastic and variable workload requirements.

What is Photon Controller NOT? A vCenter Replacement

• They are alternatives, targeting different sets of workloads.

• vCenter will continue to be the right platform for non-cloud native apps, even once Photon Controller is released.

• Not feature compatible.

– Photon Controller will do far fewer things, at far greater scale.

– No VM Backup, HA, FT, SRM

– No explicit placement, movement of VMs or storage (*-vMotion, *-DRS).

– Limited VM hardware settings to configure.

• Not Tool or API compatibility: New model for both workload consumption, and operations (some operational tools will apply across both, e.g. auto-deploy, OVFtool, etc.)

• No “upgrade path” from vCS.

Photon Controller High-Level Architecture (Long-Term)

ESXi ESXi Storage / Virtual SAN NSX Best-of-breed virtualization infrastructure, capable of using off-the-shelf hardware.

Multi-tenant API-driven fabric optimized for scale, churn and high-availability (not vCenter).

Photon Controller Control Plane

vROPS Photon Controller Mgmt Tools

Simple and automated operations and management optimized for datacenter scale.

Log Insight 3rd-party /

Custom Mgmt and Ops

Diverse developer-centric “cells” from VMware, 3rd-parties, customers.

OpenStack Cloud Foundry

Photon + Container Clusters, (e.g. Kubernetes)

Hadoop / Spark

Custom CI / CD

VMware-built Partner-built Customer-built

Dev Teams

Infra Ops Team

Linux OS Optimized for Containers

A lightweight Linux operating system

optimized for cloud-native applications

• Optimized for SDDC • Addresses guest OS bloat • Distributed with VMware products • Standard OS for virtual appliances

Security That Meets the Need of Containers

Identity and access management for cloud-

native applications

• Optimized for services • Built-in security, identity, authentication • Open container identity ecosystem

Summary

VMware Infrastructure Provides Flexibility for Cloud-Native Apps

• vSphere Integrated Containers

– On-ramp to cloud-native apps

– Seamless integration with existing vSphere environments

– Fast, lightweight, secure with rich management to meet SLA and compliance requirements

• Photon Platform

– New initiatives with high scale / speed / churn requirements

– Streamlined platform with CLI / API interface

– Extensible consumption surfaces to empower your developers

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