2. SteamCannon
Platform-as-a-Service by JBoss
Marek Goldmann | Java Night 2010 | Utrecht, NL

3. Marek, who?
•
• JBoss Developer
• Cloud-related
projects: (lead),
SteamCannon
• Part of
• Electronic music lover

4. Agenda
• Some terminology
• IaaS, PaaS, EC2, Image, WTF,
Instance...
• SteamCannon overview
• What? Where? How?
• Demo time
• Shot an app into the Cloud!

5. Terminology and
background

6. Two roles
• Developer
• User

7. Software
(SaaS)
Platform
(PaaS)
Infrastructure
(IaaS)

8. IaaS

9. IaaS
• Developer (hidden role)
• Has: hardware
• Talks about: disk, network, CPU
• Installs: operating system
• User
• Talks about: operating system

10. IaaS examples
• Amazon EC2
• Rackspace

11. Image / appliance
• Complete VM
• A template
• We use to build our
images

12. Instance
• A server launched from an image

13. But IaaS is pretty
barren...

16. PaaS

17. PaaS
• Developer
• Has: operating system
• Talks about: partitions, users
• Installs: application server, database
• User
• Talks about: datasources,
applications

18. PaaS examples
• Google AppEngine
• Heroku (Ruby)

19. Platform is the
contract your
application targets

20. IaaS –
undifferentiated
servers

21. PaaS – servers
working together

22. Platform isn’t only the
APIs or the language

23. Platform is the actual
implementation too!

24. Application
• Collection of components, services
and data solving some problem
• May be Java, Ruby, PHP, ... or a
mixture!

25. Don’t get hung up
on .wars and .ears!

26. PaaS is way more
interesting for
application developer
than IaaS

27. Software
(SaaS)
Platform
(PaaS)
Infrastructure
(IaaS)

28. Software
(SaaS)
Platform
SteamCannon
(PaaS)
Infrastructure
(IaaS)

29. Software
YOU!
(SaaS)
Platform
SteamCannon
(PaaS)
Infrastructure
(IaaS)

30. Load Balancer
App Server App Server App Server
Database

31. How we create these
servers?

33. name: appserver
version: 1
release: 5
summary: SteamCannon back-end appliance
hardware:
memory: 2048
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
appliances:
- _base
packages:
includes:
- jboss-as6
- jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
- torquebox-jruby
- torquebox-deployers
- torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployers
post:
base:
- "echo -e 'n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

34. $ boxgrinder-build
appserver.appl -p ec2 -d ami

35. SteamCannon portfolio
• Front-end: Apache HTTPD, mod_cluster
• Appserver: JBoss AS 6 + TorqueBox
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Sandbox: JBoss AS + TorqueBox + PostgreSQL

37. SteamCannon

39. SteamCannon terminology
• Platform
• Environment
• Artifact

40. Platforms
• JBoss 2-Tier
• JBoss 3-Tier
• Developer Standalone

41. Environments
• My Sandbox
• Chicken
• Staging
• Bacon
• Production
• Steven
• Experimental

42. Artifact
• Application
• Datasource

43. Demo

44. How it works
1.Nodes are launched
2.Nodes are configured
3.Applications are deployed to nodes

45. We can deploy Rails
apps too!

46. SC main features
• Click and deploy even complex,
multi-artifacts applications
• Grow your cluster using one click

47. Future directions
• REST API
• Private clouds
• Additional platforms
• Infinispan
• HornetQ
• Improved UI/UX/Workflows
• Bundling artifacts as applications
• Movement between environments

48. Try it!
• http://steamcannon.org/
• http://boxgrinder.org/
• http://steamcannon.org/try/
• Download the VMware image
• Boot the AMI

49. Q&A
@marekgoldmann
@steamcannon
#steamcannon

50. Image sources
• http://unimaps.com/flags-europe/poland-print2.html
• http://ratuagung.com/2010/12/02/prisonplanet-com-censored-news/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/1092862034/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltamike/112665708/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilascarborough/3532118420/