JBoss Developer Webinar: Cloud: BoxGrinder & SteamCannon

JBoss. Cloud.Bob McWhirterTechnical ArchitectJBoss Fellow

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Who am I?

• Joined JBoss in 2007

• Co-founder of Drools

• Bob the Despot of the Codehaus

• aka "BMW"

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Agenda

• Define some terminology

• BoxGrinder to create Virtual Machines

• SteamCannon to create a PaaS

• Demos

• Deltacloud

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Terminology

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IaaS

• Infrastructure as a service.

• Virtual hardware.

• Pretty barren.

• Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud

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PaaS

• Platform as a Service.

• Higher-order substrate for applications.

• Google App Engine, Heroku

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Image

• A snapshot/template for a server.

• Archetypical VM copied and launched.

• AMI, .vmx, .raw

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Instance

• A server launched from an image.

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1. IaaS

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Infrastructure

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Virtual servers and networks, available and priced on a per-usage basis.

Undifferentiated

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Slightly Differentiated

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/2979169728/

But serves no particular purpose...

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2. PaaS

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Platform gives purpose...

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Platform

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A substrate upon which to deploy your applications.

The contract your application targets.

Application

A collection of components, services and data solving some problem.

May be Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl, C, or a mixture.

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Don't get hung up on .wars and .ears.

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Platforms customize the infrastructure

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With IaaS, a server is the unit of deployment

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Platforms are servers operating in collusion

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Load Balancer

App Server

Database

App ServerApp Server

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How do we create these colluding server units?

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Simple Appliance

Description

VMware

EC2 S3 AMI

EC2 EBS AMI

KVM

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name: appserverversion: 1release: 5summary: SteamCannon back-end appliancehardware: memory: 2048 partitions: "/": size: 4appliances: - _basepackages: includes: - jboss-as6 - jboss-as6-cloud-profiles - torquebox-jruby - torquebox-deployers - torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployerspost: base: - "echo -e '\n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

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$ boxgrinder-build -W \ appserver.appl \ -p ec2 -d ami

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Time passes...

ami-XXXXXX

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A few times

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• Front-end (httpd, mod_cluster)

• Appserver (JBoss AS6 + TorqueBox)

• Database (PostgresSQL)

• All-in-one (JBoss AS6 + PostgresSQL)

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltamike/112665708/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/resedabear/4739589400/

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SteamCannon

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilascarborough/3532118420/

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Environment

Platform Image

Instance1..* 1..*

1..*

based on based on

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Platforms

• JBoss 2-Tier

• JBoss 3-Tier

• Developer Standalone

Environments• My Sandbox

• My Other Sandbox

• Staging

• QA

• Production

• Steven

• Experimental

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Demo!(Photo Album)

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1. SteamCannon launches a node.

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2. It deploys an application to the node.

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Demo!(Rails 3, clustered, *-ds.xml)

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1. SteamCannon launches several nodes.

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2. SteamCannon orchestrates weaving them together.

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3. SteamCannon deploys artifacts to the correct services.

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Bottom line...

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• BoxGrinder allows us to bake "best practices" into server images

• SteamCannon adds trusted remote hands to do the logistics of clustering & configuration

• Click and deploy, even complex, multi-artifact applications

Deltacloud

Oh yeah, SteamCannon talks to the IaaS provider using the Deltacloud API.

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Demo!(Deltacloud API)

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Future directions

• Additional platforms, including other data and service platforms

• Infinispan (Data grid)

• HornetQ (Messaging fabric)

• Improved UI/UX/Workflows

• Higher-order "applications"

• Movement between environments

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Try it!

•http://boxgrinder.org/

•http://steamcannon.org/

• Download the VMware image

• Boot the AMI

• http://steamcannon.org/try/

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Q&A

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