Infrastructure for Continuous Delivery & Microservices: PaaS or Docker?

Docker seems the perfect infrastructure for Microservices. However, PaaS like Amazon Elastic Beanstalk or Cloud Foundry might be interesting alternatives. This talks shows how PaaS support Continuous delivery. Held at Continuous Lifecycle 2015.

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1. Infrastructure for Continuous Delivery & Microservices: PaaS or Docker? Eberhard Wolff Fellow @ewolff
3. http://microservices-buch.de/ http://microservices-book.com/
4. Why This Talk? > 2008: Google App Engine > Google Infrastructure for the masses! > 2010: Selling PaaS into Enterprise > Future of application development! > Didn‘t really take off
5. What is Cloud?
6. Cloud = Self Service
7. Infrastructure as a Service Platform as a Service Software as a Service Software or Service that you use Components that you integrate into your app Virtual Application Server Handles Scale-Out Mostly Managed by Provider Virtual Servers Manage Everything Yourself
8. PaaS Your application Including database, scaling, monitoring, HTTP handling...
9. Cloud might be... > Private / internal “on premise” > Public “off premise”
10. Why PaaS? > Scaling? > Pay-as-you-go? > Quickly and easily deploy applications ?
11. Continuous Delivery is the value propostion of PaaS
12. Issues With PaaS > Standardized infrastructure > Not flexible > Hard to migrate existing applications > Installing PaaS on-premise hard > Enterprise=On-Premise > Huge success for Internet apps
13. PaaS Your application
14. Continuous Delivery: Build Pipeline Commit Stage Automated Acceptance Testing Automated Capacity Testing Manual Explorative Testing Release Deploy Deploy Deploy Deploy Automated Reproducible Fast
15. Continuous Delivery: State of the Art > Roll your own deployment automation > Chef, Puppet, Ansible > Use some kind of virtualization > ...or Docker
16. Docker > No true virtualization > Linux Containers (lxc) > Shared kernel > Separate file systems > Separated network interfaces
17. Docker File Systems > Storage backends > Devicemapper (block devices) > Read only base images > + Read/write image > Can be stacked Ubuntu Java Application Read / Write
18. Docker = Lightweight > One base image > Other images are just a diff > Little storage > Kernel etc. shared > Almost no overhead over a process CPU
19. Docker = Simple Deployment RUN COPY
20. Docker = Simple Deployment > Dockerfile > Just a shell script > Behind the scenes: Optimization > Every Dockerfile line = filesystem snapshot > Reuse snapshots for all other Dockerfiles
21. Docker‘s History > Public PaaS must separate tenants > Ideally multiple tenants per VM > Docker started as foundation for dotCloud PaaS > Docker and PaaS related
22. Why Docker Over PaaS? > Still simple deployment > Still simple installation > Unlimited flexibility
23. Your application Load Balancer Log Parser Cache Monitoring Database
24. Microservices
25. Definition Microservice > Independent deployment unit > Separate data handling & storage > Should include UI > Process > VM > Docker container > Any technology Server Micro Service
26. Operations > Operating 50-100 Microservices? > Huge challenge > Only option: Standardize
27. Your application Load Balancer Log Parser Cache Monitoring Database Standardize ✓ ✓ ✓ ? ?
28. Standardized Environment?
29. Congrats on Building Your Own PaaS!
30. Demo: Elastic Beanstalk
31. Amazon Elastic Beanstalk > Application: Contains all versions & environments > Version: Deployabel artifact > Environment: Runs a version of the application
32. Elastic Beanstalk Features > Supports multiple environments > Blue/green deployment support > Scalable infrastructure > Log files stored in S3 > Monitoring through Cloud Watch > Also via CLI, API or Cloud Formation
33. But just a WAR is not enough
34. Elastic Beanstalk Turn Key Components Paas Flexibility Modify Beanstalk Image Beanstalk +Docker Elastic Beanstalk Java, Go, Python... Databases (RDS) ElastiCache ... You own EC2 Virtual Machine Additional Services
35. But I want to run in my datacenter!
36. Cloud Foundry > Open Source PaaS > Foundation for IBM Bluemix, Pivotal CF ...
37. Cloud Foundry Included Services e.g. MySQL... Paas Flexibility Your own Buildback Cloud Foundry Buildpacks Java, Node, Ruby, Go You own Service Additional Services
38. Demo: Cloud Foundry
39. Conclusion
40. Conclusion > Continuous Delivery = PaaS Value Proposition > PaaS lacked flexibility > Docker orignates from PaaS > Microservices = Standardization > Standardization = Your Own PaaS > Buy instead of build? > Modern PaaS provide the needed flexibility
41. Thank You! @ewolff