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How AppFog Brought PHP to CloudFoundry

How AppFog Brought PHP to CloudFoundry

CloudFoundry Community Update

How Appfog contributed PHP support to CloudFoundry.

Jeremy Voorhis

January 17, 2012
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  1. How AppFog Brought PHP to CloudFoundry Jeremy Voorhis Senior Engineer,

    AppFog Inc [email protected] @jvoorhis http://www.appfog.com Wednesday, January 18, 12
  2. The Three Layers of PaaS • User Experience • Application

    Lifecycle • Infrastructure Orchestration Wednesday, January 18, 12
  3. User Developer Experience • Support • Plans, pricing and billing

    • User interface (web, mobile) • Tools (CLI, version control) • Add-ons Wednesday, January 18, 12
  4. Application Lifecycle • HTTP Pipeline • Runtime and Framework Support

    • Deployments • Services (Relational Database, Message Broker, etc.) • App Configuration (Env. Vars, Service Connections, URLs) Wednesday, January 18, 12
  5. Infrastructure Orchestration • Scale infrastructure to meet demand • Configuration

    management • Monitoring • Log correlation / retention Wednesday, January 18, 12
  6. What is ? • PaaS tailored specifically for PHP developers

    • Apache, MySQL, Varnish, Git • Private Git hosting, Git deployments • App Console • Add-on Program • Built all 3 layers ourselves! Wednesday, January 18, 12
  7. is our eponymous, open PaaS • Exchanged our app lifecycle

    tier for CloudFoundry • 7 pull requests plus customization • Multi-lang, multi-service • Git agnostic (deploy from Maven, Eclipse, Github or Dropbox!) Wednesday, January 18, 12
  8. Why build our new PaaS on CloudFoundry? • Path to

    adding languages and services • Commitment to open source • Vibrant community • Focus more effort on UX and Infrastructure Orchestration • Support AWS, Rackspace, Joyent, HP Public Clouds Wednesday, January 18, 12
  9. Similarities • N-tier architecture • Isolates apps in multi-tenant environments

    • Scales on demand • Manages configuration Wednesday, January 18, 12
  10. PHP Fog Innovations • Best in class UX • HTTP

    caching (Varnish) • Wildcard subdomains, HTTPS termination for custom domains • Git deployments Wednesday, January 18, 12
  11. Our PHP Stack • Apache 2 • PHP 5.3 •

    Popular PHP modules • Varnish cache Wednesday, January 18, 12
  12. Seven Accepted Pull Requests and Counting! • vmc • vcap

    • vcap-tests • nats Wednesday, January 18, 12
  13. State of OSS PHP Support in CloudFoundry • PHP stack

    installed by vcap_dev_setup • PHP apps automatically detected by vmc • Apache2 runs single app in foreground • Integrates with CloudFoundry secure user pool • Available now from Github Wednesday, January 18, 12
  14. Work in Progress • Varnish cache invalidation for vcap •

    Custom DEA supports secure multi-tenant Apache2 • Orchestrate single tenant DEA • Available now in AppFog Private Beta Wednesday, January 18, 12
  15. Future of CloudFoundry • Improve documentation! • Fix CloudFoundry.com vs

    CloudFoundry.org confusion • Independent governance can provide extra peace of mind Wednesday, January 18, 12
  16. Thank you CloudFoundry team! • Was a joy to work

    with CF dev team • Thank you Derek Collison! • Thank you James Watters! Wednesday, January 18, 12