ClouDesire @ Italian DevOps Initiative 2013

Verso il primo cloud application store italiano, con OpenNebula, Puppet e REST: ClouDesire. Nonostante il proliferare di piattaforme e soluzioni cloud, queste tecnologie richiedono know-how e risorse per poter essere pienamente abbracciate, soprattutto in Italia, dove applicativi e architetture legacy regnano (ancora) sovrani. ClouDesire si pone come obiettivo di semplificare il processo per portare su cloud un'applicazione (web o legacy), e distribuirla in modalità XaaS, fornendo tutti i necessari tool di supporto.

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2. ?
   A solution to reduce time to sell
   for software vendors, in a dedicated and
   customized store or in a global marketplace,
   using a cloud computing environment.
   ClouDesire doesn't embrace a single product,
   technology or service, and expose full-stack API
   for a complete control of its behavior,
   to avoid vendor lock-in.
   

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3. -
   Create
   an account
   on ClouDesire
   1
   Configure
   a private
   store
   2
   Configure
   the base template
   with required
   application stack
   3
   Install the
   application into
   the customized
   template
   4
   Define SLA and
   metrics pricing for
   application
   template
   5
   Sell
   the application
   on the store(s)
   
   6
   

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4. -
   Browse the
   vendor's catalogue
   or the ClouDesire
   marketplace
   1
   "Buy It!"
   2
   Proceed with
   payment
   3
   Wait a few
   minutes for the
   application
   deployment
   4
   Start using
   the application
   
   5
   

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5. -
   Wait
   for deployment
   requests arising
   after an order
   1
   Provide
   resources
   monitoring
   and
   alerting
   2
   Bill to vendor
   
   4
   Send to vendors
   periodic reports
   on applications
   revenue
   3
   

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7. FEATURES
   Open Source Data Center Virtualization Framework
   • Physical Hosts & VM resources usage and monitoring
   • Heterogeneous hypervisors support (KVM, Xen, VMWare)
   • Public Cloud connectors (EC2)
   • Remote Cloud connectors (Federation)
   • Public API: XML-RPC, EC2, OCCI
   • Images catalog
   • Enforcing infrastructure security policy with ACL
   

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8. •Focusing on data center virtualization
   •High-performances core, scriptable drivers
   •All in one package, without external deps
   •Truly OSS, user-driver development
   •API-agnostic
   

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10. Don't reinvent the wheel
    - ?
    No license costs
    Developed with interoperability and industry standards in mind
    Functions served by remote API, not only GUI
    Easily extensible to support multiple clouds/hypervisors
    

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11. CMS is a Web Service exposing an abstraction layer
    for wrapping and aggregating the main functions provided
    by the underlying Cloud Management Framework.
    It provides independence and more high-level functions
    of the underlying
    Cloud Management Framework.
    

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12. REST-API for accessing cloud resources
    Frontends: native API, CIMI, EC2
    Backends: OpenNebula, Amazon, IBM
    SmartCloud, OpenStack, Arubacloud […]
    

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13. It is used to create a new Virtual Context after a customer
    purchase, to instantiate the required resource and
    to monitor step-by-step the deployment status:
    if something go wrong, it will retry until success.
    FEATURES
    • Search for pending deployment orders
    • Injects requests in a newly created context,
    interacting with CMS to launch new VM instances
    • Monitors the deployment process and retry on
    temporary failures
    • De-schedule VMs when expiration date is reached
    

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14. Template
    Environment It is a collection of Contexts, associated to a particular customer. Each
    vendor have access to all customers Environments.
    Building
    Block
    Virtual
    Context
    VC contains one or more BB, usually providing value-added vendor services.
    Each Agent inside a BB can interact with any Agent inside the same Virtual
    Context.
    It is a ready-to-be-deployed Virtual Context, containing one or more BB,
    created, configured and maintained by a particular vendor, stored in a
    catalog.
    BB is the minimal deployable entity on ClouDesire which contains one or
    more vendor Apps. It is composed by a single or multiple VMs, and should be
    provided with a specific platform integration module, named Agent.
    

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15. Web Service that expose all the business-logic functions
    to achieve the platform requirements.
    It rely on the CMS to interact with the lower infrastructure.
    FEATURES
    • Catalog management and Billing
    • Monitoring and metrics gathering
    • Backups and restores
    • Agent Communication
    • Template/Sandboxing management
    • User management and Authentication
    

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16. A software component that is used in a Building Block,
    as platform integration point for instance management
    and metrics gathering.
    FEATURES
    • Monitors the services status inside
    VM
    • Receives remote commands (e.g.:
    restart services)
    • Pub-Sub communications between
    agents inside the same virtual
    context
    

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17. Every request needs to be routed to the correct destination
    This is the users entry point to reach a running application.
    FEATURES
    • Implements user authentication,
    based on SSO
    • Enforce access policies
    • Map each HTTP request to the
    correct deployed application
    

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18. A Symfony2 web application where different
    entities can:
    Orders status, BB availability and basic instance
    management.
    Customers
    List of their Customers, Orders, BBs.
    Monitoring and automation of deployed instances.
    Template and billing management.
    Vendors
    Managing and monitoring of the entire platform.
    Administrators
    Twitter bootstrap: front-end framework for geeks
    Guzzle: HTTP-client REST-friendly
    NoVNC: HTML5 VNC viewer (NO MORE JAVA)
    

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20. A web application where
    a software vendor
    can publish its own
    applications,
    along with others
    vendors apps.
    Customers can browse
    the catalog and
    place orders on them.
    FEATURES
    • Catalogue Management
    • Products Listing, Featured
    products
    • Shopping Cart
    

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22. A web application
    where vendors can manage
    their own applications catalog
    and customers can place
    orders on it.
    Snippets are provided
    for easy integration
    into an existing web site
    ("Buy this" button).
    FEATURES
    • Catalogue Management
    • Interface customizations
    • Billing & Metrics Management
    • App Sandboxing
    

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23. More on ClouDesire
    http://www.cloudesire.com
    We are hiring!
    job@liberologico.com
    Contact me
    http://twitter.com/gionn
    g.toraldo@liberologico.com
    

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