Some slides that I used when giving a demo of Cloud Foundry (www.cloudfoundry.com) at SD Forum Cloud Services Sig. Feb 2009

1. Automated, Outsourced,
Data Center Management for
Java Applications on Amazon EC2
Chris Richardson
www.cloudfoundry.com
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2. About Chris
Grew up in England and live in Oakland
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Over 20+ years of software
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development experience including 12
d l t i i l di
years of Java
Started Java architecture consulting
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company and sold it to BEA
Speaker at J
S k t JavaOne, S i O
O SpringOne, NFJS
NFJS,
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JavaPolis, Spring Experience, etc.
Java Champion
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Run a consulting and training company
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that h l
th t helps organizations reduce
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development costs and increase
effectiveness
cloudtools.org
www.cloudfoundry.com
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3. Why Java?
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Java 22%
Widely used
Lots of innovation C 16%
Grails provides Rails-like “10X VB 11%
gain in web developer C++ 10%
productivity
productivity” for Java
PHP 9%
Spring, Hibernate, OSGi,
Terracotta, Scala, … Python 5%
Perl 5%
C# 4%
Ruby 3%
Source: TIOBE Index
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4. Running Java on Amazon EC2
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Amazon Web Services provides the
compute resources
For development and deployment
Great for startups and agile enterprises
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BUT
Requires new skills to use effectively
New concepts
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New APIs
It is a lot of work to correctly setup,
s oo o oo y s up,
deploy and manage a Java application
Dynamic environment, e.g. changing IPs,
ephemeral storage, …
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5. CloudTools.org
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Open-source project
AMIs with Java stack: Apache/Tomcat/MySql, …
Deployment and management framework for
Java and other JVM languages
Object-oriented and extensible
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mvn cloudtools:deploy
OR
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grails cloud-tools-deploy
py
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6. A few minutes later
Tomcat Server MySQL
(instance 2) DB (Slave)
HTTP(S) (instance 5)
Web Browser
Apache Server MySQL
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(instance 1)
) DB (Master)
( )
(instance 4)
Tomcat Server MySQL
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EBS Volume
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(instance 3) DB (Slave)
(instance 6)
S3
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7. CloudFoundry.com
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A hosted service, currently in beta
Exclusively for the JVM community
Builds on Cloud Tools deployment and
py
management engine
Deploy an application with a few
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mouse clicks
Monitoring and automated
management
Support
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8. Cloud Foundry Demo – part 1
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9. CloudFoundry.com
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10. Cloud Foundry Features
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Language, framework and tool agnostic
You provide WAR files + SQL scripts
Written in your favorite JVM language
Developed using your favorite frameworks
Built using your favorite tools
Portability
Deploy on your instances
Choice f topologies
Ch i of t li
SingleInstance – all services on a single instance
MultipleInstances – instance/service
Automated backups
Monitoring, alerting and automated
recovery
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11. Cloud Foundry Demo – part 2
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12. Beer on the Cloud
Grails application
Short-term
marketing
campaign site
Fluctuating load
Sat/Sun 4 servers
Mon Fri
Mon-Fri 1 server
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13. Final thoughts
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Download or contribute to Cloud
Tools today :
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www.cloudtools.org
Checkout Cloud Foundry:
www.cloudfoundry.com
www cloudfoundry com
Buy my book ☺
Send email:
chris@chrisrichardson.net
Visit my website:
www.chrisrichardson.net
Talk to me about consulting and
training
Phone: 510 904 9832
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Copyright (c) 2009 Chris Richardson. All rights reserved.