Easy applications deployment on OpenStack clouds

The software development processes are evolved from the past, and nowadays you need to be able to respond quickly to market changes, or you will not survive. On the infrastructure perspective, you need to gain agility on managing cloud resources and deployment of your applications. In this presentation will be introduced two open-source technology, jclouds and opscode chef, that combined together can helps developers to speed-up the deployment of their applications on the cloud, and it will presented how ClouDesire is trying to solve this problems offering a vertical service to solve this specific purposes.

Presentation held at the #1 italian OpenStack Day in Milano. #openstackday #openstackdayit

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1. #1 OpenStack Day Milano 2014 - CC BY - ClouDesire
   Easy applications
   deployment on
   OpenStack clouds
   Giovanni Toraldo, lead developer @ ClouDesire
   

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   Who we are
   ClouDesire is a tech startup based in Pisa, that
   has developed a Cloud Application
   Marketplace.
   Giovanni Toraldo is the lead developer of
   ClouDesire, an Open Source Enthusiast with
   Super Cow Powers, PHP/Java/whatever
   developer, #devops
   

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   Once upon a time… waterfall model
   ● Sequential process
   ● Manual testing
   ● Scheduled releases
   ● Hard to deploy
   ● Physical
   infrastructures
   

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   Nowadays… lean, agile, #buzzword
   ● Rapid-changing
   requirements
   ● Faster iterations
   ● Automated testing
   ● Disposable cloud
   resources
   

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   Focus on infrastructure risks
   ● A jungle of IaaS providers, multiple API
   dialects.
   ● Different environments for each application:
   development, staging, production.
   ● Environments grow fast as the app
   requirements.
   ● Server configurations should be tested, too.
   

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   Let’s start to aim the target
   We need to...
   ● manage infrastructure with code
   ● define infrastructure as code
   ● version infrastructure as code
   ● test infrastructure as code
   ● do it faster and more often. Continuously.
   ● Automate all the things!
   

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   Universal Cloud API
   JClouds is a Java/Clojure open-source library
   that provides an abstraction layer between
   multiple cloud resources.
   http://jclouds.apache.org/
   

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   Hate Java?
   Don’t worry, similar OSS projects exists:
   ● Fog.io (Ruby) http://fog.io/
   ● Libcloud (Python) https://libcloud.apache.
   org/
   ● Deltacloud (agnostic) http://deltacloud.
   apache.org/
   

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    Automated Infrastructure
    ● Stop thinking about servers and start to
    model services and resources
    ● Infrastructure as a code
    ● Build reusable components to manage
    resources
    ● Integration Testing
    

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    Automated Infrastructure - Opscode Chef
    ● Opscode Chef http://www.getchef.com/
    ● Chef relies on reusable definitions known as
    cookbooks and recipes that are written in
    Ruby.
    ● Cookbooks and recipes automate common
    infrastructure tasks.
    ● Chef applies those definitions to servers to
    produce an automated infrastructure.
    

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    Let’s merge things together...
    Deployer
    +
    JClouds
    OpenStack API
    JSON REST API
    Deploy
    Web
    Panel
    Chef
    recipes
    VM
    Provisioning
    Lifecycle
    VM
    VM
    VM
    Configure app stack
    

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    Thank you!
    Follows us on Twitter: @cloudesire @gionn
    

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