Lessons Learned from Migrating Legacy Enterprise Applications to Microservices

Ross Zhang (@ross_zhang)Jun Li (@jeffreyjunli)

SpringOne Platform 2016

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Agenda

● Our Journey● Pain Points● Puzzle Pieces to Migrate to Microservices● Lessons Learned● Future Work● Q & A ● Glossary

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Our Journey

1996

Smalltalk & RPG program

2006

Java EE, EJB2, SOAP, Struts, Wicket, JSP, Hibernate

2011

Spring 3, Spring MVC, Spring Security, JSP...

2013 2014 2015 2016

Spring Boot 0.5.0

Spring Boot 1.0.0

Spring Boot

Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, PCF

SmalltalkApplication

Green Screen app

SOAP

AS400(20 years old)

Application Server

EAR - Enterprise Archive MQ

Caching

Security

Load balancing Logging

JNDIEAR - Enterprise ArchiveEAR - Enterprise Archive

Migration Journey

Pain Points

● Development● Deployment● Operations

Development Pain Points

Dev env takes too long to

set upJar hell

Framework configurations

Deployment Pain Points

Slow Unstable Downtime

Operation Pain Points

No application

health check

No log aggregation or analysis

Microservices

The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. While there is no precise definition of this architectural style, there are certain common characteristics around organization around business capability, automated deployment, intelligence in the endpoints, and decentralized control of languages and data.

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- Martin Fowler (http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html)

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #0

Problem: application server

What we tried:● Vagrant, Docker● Standalone Tomcat

Solution: Embedded Tomcat

Result: ● Local set up: 5 hours -> 0 second● Deploy: 5 minutes -> 1 minute

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #1

Problem: lots of boilerplate framework configurations

Solution: Spring Boot

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #2

Problem: Dependency management

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #2

Solution: Spring IO Platform

<dependencyManagement><dependencies>

<dependency><groupId>io.spring.platform</groupId><artifactId>platform-bom</artifactId><version>1.1.1.RELEASE</version><type>pom</type><scope>import</scope>

</dependency></dependencies>

</dependencyManagement>

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #3

Problem: Application health check and monitoring● Issue: murder mystery to your application

○ Brute force restart● Issue: one production app depends on dev environment

Solution: Spring Boot Actuator + extension endpoint● /health combined with Sensu so that operations can react immediately ● /info links deployment artifact with CI build pipeline so that we know how it was built,

when it was built, and how it was tested● /dependencies

{{

"maven.artifact" : "com.sample.authorization.ws", "maven.artifact.version" : "1.6.489-SNAPSHOT",

"git.branch" : "master", "git.commit.id" : "5155e6314ec891fa0094d4fc708c551a2184f132", "build.number" : "489", "build.url" : "http://bamboo/browse/AUT-BUIL-489"

}}

{"dependencies": [{

"serviceName": "User Info WS","version": "4.0.0","endpoint": "http://domainname.com/user-info-ws"

}, {"serviceName": "Encryption WS","version": "3.1.0","endpoint": "http://domainname.com/encryption-ws"

}, {"serviceName": "Order WS","version": "1.1.0-SNAPSHOT","endpoint": "http://domainname.com/order-ws"

}, {"Database": "DB2 for AS/400","Url": "jdbc:as400://dev-db","Username": "dbuser","Tables": "{tbl_user, tbl_org, tbl_order, tbl_reference}"

}]}

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #4

Problems:● Isolated configurations, without security● Hard to trace request and response

We Tried: Spring Cloud

Make a change

Check in master

Compile,unit test,

integration test on CI

server

Deploy to Staging

Interactive tests

Deploy to productionwith script

2013

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #5

Make a change

Check in master

Compile,unit test,

integration test on CI

server

Deploy to Staging

Interactive tests

One click deploy to

production

Automated Infrastructure test in Chef

2015

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #5

Make a change

Check in master

Compile,unit test,

integration test on CI

server

Deploy to Staging

Interactive tests

One click deploy to production

In PCF

Automated Infrastructure test in

Pivotal Cloud Foundry

2016 and beyond

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #5

Migrating to Microservices Puzzle #6

For each new service, we have to create:● 3+ git repositories● 1 CI build plan● 2 CI deployment plans (dev and prod)● Many more code, tests, README, CHANGELOG, YML, RAML, POM...

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Dev QA PM BusinessOperation

Departments

Projects

DevOps

Organizational Structure Changes

Spring Boot is the baseline!

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned

Test automation as much as possible● Unit test● Integration test● End-to-end test

Lessons Learned

Health and monitoring is super important because● Operation people get notified immediately if something goes wrong● When combined with log aggregation and analysis, troubleshooting becomes easier for

developers● Think about how to define a healthy application● Secure your Spring Boot Actuator endpoints

Future Work

● Log aggregation● Service discovery and client load balancing● A/B Testing

Q&A

● Bamboo: https://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo● Chef: https://www.chef.io/chef/● Docker: https://www.docker.com● Elasticsearch: https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch● Eureka: https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/● Kibana: https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana● Logstash: https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash● Pivotal Cloud Foundry https://pivotal.io/platform ● Raml: http://raml.org● Ribbon: https://github.com/Netflix/ribbon● Spring Cloud Config: https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-config/● Spring Cloud Sleuth: https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-sleuth/● Spring IO Platform: https://spring.io/platform● Sensu: https://sensuapp.org● Swagger: http://swagger.io● Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com● Yaml: http://yaml.org ● Zipkin: http://zipkin.io

Glossary