1. Understanding Cloud Native API Deployment
Improving customer experience at speed
October, 2021

2. Hello!
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Eric Newcomer
Chief Technology Officer
● Joined WSO2 Nov. 2020 from Citibank
⦿ Chief Security Architect, Consumer Bank
⦿ Chief Architect, Treasury & Trade Solutions
● Chief Architect, Credit Suisse. Investment
Banking
● CTO at IONA Technologies
● Distinguished Engineer & TP Architect at
Digital Equipment
● Industry contributions:
⦿ Author/co-author/tech lead on multiple
industry standards
⦿ Author/co-author of widely used textbooks
⦿ Patent on mobile middleware
https://www.linkedin.com/in/enewcomer/
https://twitter.com/enewc

3. How it started - where it’s going now
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● Once upon a time we went to the computer room
⦿ Run your program, get your results, and leave
⦿ The computer was always in the same place that you went to
⦿ Applications were engineered to run on that machine
● Cloud native programs run anywhere
⦿ You cannot get into the room, even if you knew where it was, but you can access your program from
anywhere
⦿ Programs and data are distributed across many systems, constantly adapting and moving
⦿ Delivering the scale, resiliency, and agility needed for digital app experiences (incl APIs)
● Evolution of cloud native deployment
⦿ Breaking up app functions into microservices with strict interface control (bounded contexts)
⦿ Standardization of Docker containers to run a microservice on any computer
⦿ Standardization of Kubernetes to orchestrate the containers across many computers
Understanding this major change in computing

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Just give us your containers! We’ll figure out where to run them.

6. (Interesting side note - you can get a data center in a container ;-)
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So we have containers in
containers...

7. Kubernetes - standardizing container orchestration for cloud native
computing - how and where to run all those containerized programs
CLI
UI
Kubernetes Control Plane
API Server
Scheduler
Controller-Manager
Etcd
Workload Node 1
Container Runtime
Pod 1
Container
Pod 2
Container
Container
Kubelet Networking
Workload Node 2
Container Runtime
Pod 1
Container
Pod 2
Container
Container
Kubelet Networking
Kubernetes Cluster
Looks easy, right?
What could go
wrong?!?
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8. Troubleshooting Guide
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Source: https://learnk8s.io/troubleshooting-deployments
But yikes!
Have to navigate a complex
path to to fix problems

9. So how about a Kubernetes-based platform?
We can assume a “flavor” of Kubernetes is going to be there, right?
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10. Choreo
Architecture
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Dev
Ops
APIs
Choreo is a Kubernetes platform for APIs

11. Platform
Features
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Microservices
Kubernetes
Low Code
DevOps
API Marketplace
Existing
Enterprise IT
SaaS APIs
AI & Machine
Learning
Service Mesh
Security &
Compliance
GitOps
API Management
No Code
Apps
Low Code Integration
Zero Trust
Network
Observability
Solution
Architecture
GitHub
Domain-Driven
Design
Choreo: cloud APIs, integrations, and services

12. Evolution of API platforms - maturity of Kubernetes
● The evolution of computing clearly points to Kubernetes as a lasting “platform”
⦿ Yes, everyone always says “until something else comes along”
⦿ They said that about Web services 20 years ago, and we still have WSDL and SOAP out there ;-)
⦿ For now at least the industry is standardizing on Kubernetes for container orchestration
⦿ Sorry Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Open Stack, Mezos, Swarm…
● Yes, there are problems with Kubernetes but these are getting solved by abstracting the
“flavor” of Kubernetes into platforms (on platforms....?)
● Now that we know Kubernetes will be there for our containers
⦿ We can develop and auto-deploy APIs with confidence
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Example:
Bank to a (digital banking) Cafe
Competitive edge by ability to serve
customers at the speed they demand
Agility, speed to market. New features
multiple times a day (not weeks or
months)- because of microservices
A technology company that offers
financial services as digital products
Deliver innovation more quickly because
of AWS features and technologies -
developers productive in one day
Invest in governance function, security
practices, training for cloud literacy

14. Summary
● Kubernetes platform
○ Is here to stay - the maturity of cloud deployment is based on it
○ Has an important role to play as a platform for APIs, integrations, and services
● Choreo fulfills this role by
○ Delivering the benefits of cloud native computing development through full code, low
code & no code abstractions
○ Automatically builds and deploys APIs, integrations, and services
○ Spend more time innovating, less time plumbing
○ AI & machine learning data mapping, coding tips, runtime diagnostics
○ Identity & access management with Asgardeo IDaaS (also from WSO2)
● Delivered in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid
○ Abstracts development
○ Abstracts deployment
● Get the cloud native benefits of Capital One not in years but months!
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15. wso2.com
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