How Platforms Work

Platforms: either you have one or you’re building one. Over the years I’ve observed six high-level characteristics common to production environments which are operationally mature. This talk will explain in detail the six capabilities in an operationally mature production environment. (Note: After these slides I demo these capabilities live using Cloud Foundry.)

Transcript

1. How Platforms Work • Twitter @caseywest • Email cwest@pivotal.io • Web http://caseywest.com • Days since I last used that joke zero
2. Thanks a lot, Pivotal
3. Minimum Viable Platform • Dynamic DNS, routing and load balancing • Backing services broker • Infrastructure orchestration • Health management, monitoring, and recovery • Immutable artifact repository • Log aggregation
4. ! What's a car? Credit: Simon Wardley
5. ! What's a platform? Credit: Simon Wardley
6. BOSH http:/ /bosh.io
7. Cloud Foundry http:/ /cloudfoundry.org
8. Live Demo
9. Thank you Questions?
10. @caseywest Let's be friends !