What Does Your Platform Do For You? by Karun Bakshi

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What Does Your Platform Do For You?

Karun BakshiDirector, Product Marketing, Pivotal Cloud FoundryPivotal CloudBees, Continuous Delivery SummitWashington D.C., 2015


Motivation

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Of Dinosaurs and Unicorns – The Imperative to Evolve

“Software is Eating the World”- Mark Andreessen

“Silicon Valley is coming”- Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase

“Unicorns may be overvalued, but all dinosaurs gonna die”- Dave McClure, 500 Startups


What Does It Mean To Deliver Continuously?

Compile Test Deliver


Delivering

Karl Malone, a.k.a. “The Mailman” delivers

You have compiled, tested and deployed…But you have not delivered…

Until the business succeeds!

True Delivery is Operational Success

How do we get there?


The Weakest Link – An Impedance Mismatch

Day 0 Day 1 Day 2

Development CI/CD Operations

Specify Code DeployBuildTest/Verify

Package Repository

Production Concerns

Automated Manual


Trouble in Paradise


Operations

ScalingAvailability Security Updates


The Need For A (Well-Designed) Platform

Automation

Standardization

Collaboration Platform for DevOps

Ease with Extensibility

Encapsulation

Elevation of Concerns


Desirable Properties


Microservices

Microservices Architecture – a suite of independent business capabilities that collectively comprise an application but can be independently defined, managed and scaled.

Decoupled functionality

Independent management & scaling

Independent development; Organizational agility


12-Factor App

A set of best practices for developing and deploying cloud-native software.

Some practices can translate into platform features and workflow requirements.

Codebase Dependencies ConfigBacking Services

Build, Release,

RunProcesses Port

BindingConcurrenc

y

DisposabilityDev/Prod

Parity LogsAdmin

Processes


Support Multiple Languages and Runtimes


Portable Across Cloud Infrastructures


Operational Concerns

Availability

Adaptive Scaling

Security

Updates/Management


Support an Organizational Context

Multiple departmental and user abstractions and privileges

Encapsulate and enforce a framework– Structure– Consistency– Generality– Extensibility

Handle multiple contexts with ease and elegance within well defined boundaries “Controlled Flexibility”


Support and Encourage a DevOps Practice

Support Multiple Deploys

Support Dev/Prod Parity

Encourage a shared culture and processes through tools


Cloud Foundry


Cloud Foundry

Traditional DevOps and Application Deployment

Pivotal Cloud Foundry


Cloud Foundry Foundation - Largest PaaS Ecosystem


Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Source: see more on our website.

• Orchestrates and manages IaaS; Multi-cloud

• Horizontally scalable; Container based; Support for Docker coming soon.

• Admins specify services

• Multi-Language

• Support for scaling, health monitoring, security, updates

• PaaS - CLI and UI for developers

• Used by F500 customers and Pivotal’s public PaaS

http://pivotal.io/platform-as-a-service/pivotal-cloud-foundry


Customers using Pivotal as their cloud platform for software development

Note: selected from Pivotal’s 40+ customers accounting for ~$40m in 2014 bookings. Click most logos for links to videos or customer cases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL-icG1tfcA

http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-cloud-foundry/case-studies-2/how-lockheed-martin-is-taking-on-agile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw8PLi0-QV4

http://cote.io/blog/2015/2/25/from-zero-to-factory-revolutionizing-time-to-value

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvIjvbjB7qo

http://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-cloud-foundry/case-studies-2/allstates-andy-zitney-is-disrupting-how-insurance-does-technology

http://pivotal.io/platform-as-a-service/case-study/emc-documentum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YJhjOqVN4o


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What Does Your Platform Do For You? by Karun Bakshi