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vRealize Automation Solves the Container Onboarding Conundrum

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Disclaimer

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1 Introduction

2 vRealize Automation Overview

3 Container Management in vRA

4 Demo(s)

5 Extending Containers

Agenda

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Make the clouds invisible

Make the private cloud

easy to operate

Enable

developers

Manage across clouds.

On-premises & cloud

based delivery

Built for

Developers

Cross-cloud

& SaaS

Easy to

Operate

B U S I N E S S O U T C O M E S

A R E A S O F I N V E S T M E N T

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The Ask…

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6Source: Pivotal – The Journey to Cloud Native



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Benefits of Containers

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Simple Lightweight Portable

Boot environments rapidly Minimal resources needed(i.e., runs on laptop)

Ability to move containers freely



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Docker Made It Simple*

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~# docker build my_app

~# docker push my_app

~#

* for most



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The Debate: VMs vs. Containers

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• Containers share the kernel

of the same OS.

• Usually, containers can only

run a single application

VMs can run multiple

applications



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The Truth: VMs and Containers Are Better Together

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…they Solve Different Problems

• For Infrastructure Admins who

are responsible for Hardware

Consolidation, Capacity

Management

• Ideal for Monolithic Applications

• Security is Hypervisor-

dependent

• For App Developers who want to

run apps using easy to use tools

such as Docker

• Ideal for Microservices

Applications

• Security is OS-dependent

VMs Containers



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Business ChallengesOnboarding Containers



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The Reality…

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New Consumption Models With Containers

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Dev Self-ServiceIT provided Shared, Managed

I s o l a t e d C o n t a i n e r

I n f r a s t r u c t u r e

Mixed mode

Applications

I n t e g r a t e d C l o u d

M a n a g e m e n t P l a t f o r m

Self-service catalog

for containerized

apps

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There Are Many Challenges

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Monitoring NetworkingSecurity

Production Environment

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DEVELOPERS

CONTAINERS FOR

OPERATIONS

CONTAINERS FOR

Developers and Ops Divide

Networking

Compliance

Auditing



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vRealize AutomationConundrum: Solved



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Cloud Management Is Fundamental to the SDDC

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vRA Defines, Delivers, and Governs the SDDC

Any Device Business Mobility: Applications | Devices | Content

Any Application Traditional | Cloud Native

Any Cloud Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC)

Cloud Management Platform

Compute Networking

& SecurityStorage Hybrid Cloud

Virtual / Cloud Infrastructure

vRealize Automation

DevOps

Extensibility

Release Automation

IaaSApp-

CentricXaaS

Self-Service

GUI CLI API



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Web App DB

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Rapid and Repeatable Application DeploymentsAutomating Networking, Policy and Security for IT, Developers and Research

AutomationIT Automating IT | Multi-tenant Infrastructure

VMVM

VMVM

APP

VMVM

VMVM

APPVMVM

VMVM

APP

VMVM

VMVM

APPVMVM

VMVM

APP

VMVM

VMVM

APPVMVM

VMVM

APP

VMVM

VMVM

APP

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Automation Accelerates Services Delivery

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> 2-3 Days

Wait WorkWaitWait

Blueprint

✓ Speed

▪ Days to minutes

✓ Stability

▪ Consistent

▪ Repeatable

✓ Control

▪ Aligns with Business

Processes

Task timeWait time

Infrastructure

Verification

Build VMs – New

or Clone

Get IP

Install, Setup, Configure Load Balancer Entries /

Firewall Changes

Web Server Configuration

1- 2 days 3- 5 days 3 – 5 days

1 – 2 days 4 – 7 days 2 – 3 days 2 – 5 days

Developer

Request

External Interface & Integration

IT Processes

Ticket

Minutes



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App Store Experience

Service category

Custom Service

IaaS and XaaS

Services

vRA’s Unified Service Catalog

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IaaS | Apps | XaaS Custom Services

Custom Service

Categories



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vRA’s Unified Service Design

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Converged Blueprint Designer

• Common authoring for all cloud platforms

• Design and incorporate software components

• Incorporate On-Demand Networking and Security

• Integrate externaland custom services from the XaaS library

Multi-Tier Container Design in vRA’s CBP



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Container ManagementDelivering Gen 2.5 Hybrid Apps



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Container Management in vRealize Automation



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App

Generation 2.5

Emerging

Market Majority

• Mixed Application

Types

• VMs and Containers

• Emerging DevOps

Discipline

• Cross Cloud The

New Norm

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Three Types of App Environments

App

Generation 2.0

• Client Server Apps

• VMs Only

• Little DevOps

• Mostly Private Cloud

Diminishing

Market Presence

App

Generation 3.0

• Cloud Native Apps

• Containers

• Maturing DevOps

• Mostly Public Cloud

Market

Vanguard



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Product Info

Pricing In-Stock

Reviews Promos

...

vRA Enables Containers and Hybrid Apps

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Customer

Data

eCommerce Platform

Home

Page

Product

Data

Order

Data

Product

DetailsCheckout ...

...

Transform existing applications using micro-services

VIC

Model, provision, and manage applications with containers

Manage container infrastructure*

Web

App

DatabaseVM

* Refer to container host compatibility list



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vRA Container Management with

26* Requires vRA Ent Licensing

Docker Volume SupportCreate and update persistent volumesDeploy applications with persistent

volumes

vSphere Integrated Containers Support for vSphere Integrated Containers

User ExperienceUser Interface Improvements



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vRA Container Management in Action

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Self-Service Provisioning for Container Applications and Container Hosts

Design Traditional, Container or Hybrid (VM + Container) Applications

Discovery and Management of Container Hosts and Containers



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vRA 7.3 Container Management

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Container Management Summary

* Requires vRA Ent Licensing

Support for Docker volumes:

• Create volumes

• Attach volumes to containers

• Deploy volumes with container apps

Support for VMware Integrated Containers (VIC):

• Manage VCH instances in vRA with a feature set

similar traditional Docker hosts.

• Containerized applications can be provisioned

with networks and volumes.

UX Enhancements:

• UI improvements for easier and more user friendly navigation

• Clarity UI adoption, new tabs, icons and buttons

Other improvements:

• Support for Docker Remote API 1.21

• Enhanced selection of image versions in container definition form



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Extend into VMware Cloud on AWS

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Amazon EC2 Amazon

S3

Amazon

RDS

VRA Blueprint

AppWeb

Amazon

CloudFormation

Unified cloud provisioning with vRealize

Automation for AWS & Azure workloads

• Public cloud services with vRealize Automation

blueprints

• Cross-cloud network and security

Optimized cloud operations & business for AWS &

Azure workloads

• Plan and optimize capacity

• Compare costs across clouds

• Track costs by projects

• Enhanced operational insight into public cloud

workloads$

DAY1 - UNIFIED CLOUD PROVISIONING with vRA

DAY 2 - OPTIMIZED CLOUD

OPERATIONS & BUSINESS



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Ecosystem Tools Integration

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Integrate Dev Tools into the release pipeline

vSphere

vSphere Integrated

Containers

vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations,

vRealize Log Insight, Wavefront

Pivotal CF

VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN

vRealize Code Stream

Puppet, Chef,

AnsibleHarbor,

Artifactory

Repository Config. Mgmt.

Git,

Perforce

Code Repo

Jenkins,

Bamboo, TFS

CI

Developer Laptop

Development Lifecycle

Production Stack

Vagrant,

Docker

Fusion,

vRealize

Automation

VMware Cloud on

AWS

Docker, Kubernetes,

Mesos



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vSphere

Linux

CCC Linux

Kernel

Linux

KernelLinux

Kernel

Virtual Container Host

vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC)

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Container Engine

DockerAPI

Container Engine

Container Host

• Virtual Container Hosts backed by a resource pool

• Resources can be dynamically added/removed

• NSX micro segmentation and networking

• Run in the same vSphere environment as VMs

• vCenter operations work with containers like they do with VMs (DRS, Host Evac, etc)

• Ecosystem of tools available for VMs can be used with containers



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DEMO [HYBRID BLUEPRINTING]

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Infrastructure as Code

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Export | Import | Share

id: Wordpress.4.3.1

name: Wordpress 4.3.1

components:

LB:

type: Infrastructure.Machine.vSphere

data:

machine:

cpu: {max: 4, default: 2}

memory: 1024

wpApache:

type: Software.wpApache_1

data:

host: '${_resource~LB~machine}’

…

wpMySQLDB:

type: Software.wpMySQLDB_1

data:

db_port: 3306

WebApp:

type: data:wpMySQL_Config_1

db_port: ${MySQL~db_port}

db_username: ${DB_Setup~db_username}

…

Interoperable



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LifeCycle Extensibility for Containers

• Dynamically enable OTB extensibility for traditional IaaS, Container and Hybrid Applications by leveraging Event Broker (EB) Subscriptions.

• Incorporate existing business processes and broader ecosystem services for containers

• Helps address business concerns for onboarding container services

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Process and Ecosystem Integration



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vRealize Cloud Client

• CLI-based and easy to learn / use

• Works on Windows and Linux

• Use locally or invoke remotely

• Interacts with vRA API

• Provides access to most vRA functions programmatically

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Creates a layer of abstraction between the vRA functionality and the end consumer to

increase the ease of which users are able to run automated actions against vRA



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Programmatic Consumption

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• HATEOAS links available for “dynamic” POST requests, provides a JSON for use as a payload to the corresponding POST request.

• Responses include URIs for logical next steps, e.g., perform operations on a machine, submit request for a catalog item, get details of an item in a list, add new object into a list

• All vRA-side policies apply, but not verified by POSTMAN before sending



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