Cloud Overview

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Jason Anderson, @andersonljason

April 28th, 2014

Agenda

• Introductions
• Cloud Overview
• What Cloud Technologies are Available?
• Infrastructure as a Service Deep Dive: OpenStack
• Platform as a Service Deep Dive: Cloud Foundry
• How to start using Cloud?
• Group Discussion / Questions

Introduction

Who is Mr. Anderson?

• BS + MS in Computer Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
• Working for 4 year in IBM’s Cloud Labs
• IBM Inventor with 30+ patents
• Personal Hobbies / Interest:
• Machine Learning / Analytics
• Satellites
• Hiking
• Stock Markets
• Gardening

My Team

IBM’s Open Technology and Cloud Performance Group

• Promote Open Source Communities
• Contribute to Open Source projects (e.g. OpenStack & Cloud Foundry)
• Attend conferences to help guide technologies with our experiences
• “Open technology drives innovation faster”
• Make IBM’s Cloud Products Successful
• Take IBM’s new cloud products to customers
• Design and implement first-of-a-kind solutions
• Provide insights back to the product team

IBM Silicon Valley Lab

What Cloud Technologies Are Available?

Infrastructure as a Service

• IBM SofterLayer (hosted)
• Servers (bare metal and VMs) & storage
• Advanced Services (analytics, vpn, load balancing)
• Amazon Web Services (hosted)
• Servers (VMs) & storage
• Advanced Services (analytics, vpn, load balancing)
• Rackspace (hosted)
• Servers (bare metal and VMs) & storage (Swift)
• Advanced Services (analytics, vpn, load balancing)
• DigitalOcean (hosted)
• Virtual machines
• OpenStack (self-hosted)
• Virtual machines
• Advanced Services (vpn, load balancing)

Cloud Server Configuration Tools

• Chef (Opscode)
• Configures servers automatically (through recipes)
• Puppet (Puppet Labs)
• Configures servers automatically (through classes)
• Juju (Ubuntu)
• Configures servers automatically (through charms)
• BOSH (Stark & Wayne)
• Configures servers and manages lifecycle (through packages)
• Used by Cloud Foundry

Platform as a Service

• IBM BlueMix (hosted)
• Cloud Foundry (hosted & self-hosted)
• App Fog (hosted)
• OpenShift (hosted & self-hosted)
• Heroku (hosted)

Developer Tools as a Service

• IBM Rational Team Concert (hosted & self-hosted)
• Agile process
• Source control
• GitHub (hosted & self-hosted)
• Source control
• Defect tracking
• Bitbucket (hosted)
• Source control
• Defect tracking
• Pivotal Tracker (hosted)
• Agile processes

Hosted Business Software as a Service

• Google Apps (for business)
• Email / calendar
• Documents / files
• Video conferencing
• Office 365
• Email / calendar
• Documents / files
• Salesforce
• CRM
• Force.com applications
• Dropbox / Box
• File Storage
• and many more…..

Infrastructure as a Service Deep Dive

Platform as a Service Deep Dive

How To Start Using The Cloud Today!

Getting Started Using Private Cloud...On Your Laptop!

Both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry have local install options available

OpenStack using DevStack

• Installs and deploys VMs using QEMU
• http://devstack.org

Cloud Foundry using BOSH-lite

• Installs using Vagrant and linux containers
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite

Both are easier to install on a Unix platform.

Growing Your Business on the Cloud: Case Study

DropBox started on the Cloud...

• Leveraged Amazon’s storage cloud (S3)
• Since using Cloud, only paid for what they needed
• Scaled easily so could easily add customers
• Cloud + Freemium model = Win!

Small Business Using Cloud: Case Study

Small company (6 people) migrating their product backend to the Cloud

Setup

• One m1.large Amazon EC2 instance (4 ECUs, 8GB memory, High IO perf)
• ColdFusion and SQL Server installation

Pros

• 24/7 uptime
• Ability to scale quickly

Cons

• More expensive (~$400 / month)

Small Business Using Cloud for Software Development

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• GitHub.com ($25/month for 10 repositories with unlimited users)
• Host central source code repositories
• Can scale when necessary
• Great uptime

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• Jenkins (Continuous Integration) on VM in the Cloud ($10 - $70/month)
• Provides Continuous Integration for increased code quality
• Can scale when necessary
• Great uptime

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• Pivotal Tracker ($100/month for unlimited projects and 25 users)
• A streamlined set of agile tooling
• Can scale when necessary
• Great uptime

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Cloud developer tools for about $150 / month for 25 people

Questions / Group Discussion